Poppy

That's nice to know 😊 thank you. I actually really love the shilling, it's such a good colour!

Ah ha I can actually see how it spells that out now! Amazing - Thank you 😊 this is going to be quite the learning curve!

Thank you 😊 every now and again I'm going to pick out little groups of three like this and admire them / post them on here 🤩 it's a lovely space to share the coins!

Hello! Without taking the coin out of the capsule because I haven't got any proper gloves or anything yet; I've tried to take a close up photo and I wondered if anyone might be able to tell me what coin this is please? It's from a set of recently inherited coins. I have an old magazine / book from 2013 with has been quite helpful as a reference for some coins but not for this particular one (assuming it's a genuine coin). Thank you 🙂

And the back of the coins 🙂

Well who knew how difficult it was to photograph a coin 😅. I think we have a 1900 Crown in reasonable condition with a bit of a green tinge to it, and a 1897 Shilling and 1887 Florin in quite lovely condition. I just picked a random three from the same era as there are so many to choose from! There are hundreds of coins spanning a vast range of dates and grades (I can't fathom how to grade a coin properly) and I've no clue what may have been cleaned or what may be a forgery or genuine! Any hints, tips or ideas on how to organise and catalogue very much appreciated. If anyone would like to suggest grades or values that'd also be amazing but ultimately I'm just admiring and enjoying the coins and their history 😊. I'll post the hammered coins in the correct part of the forum for some help in identifying those ones. They're very tricky to work out! Thanks everyone 🙂 P.S. I'll try and order some acetone over the weekend to combat some of the green!

That's also a very good tip - thank you. This is such a lovely forum 😊

Thanks 🙂 I'm looking forward to working out what coins are here and how old they are.

Aaw thank you 🙂 that acetone tip sounds like a good plan! The old albums are definitely from the 80's because I used to help put the coins into them as my share of the hobby! Some of the coins from the cabinet look absolutely gorgeous - I'm going to do a bit of research to try to figure out what they are and then probably share some photos on here as they're so beautiful to look at 🤩 there's a nice variety of well loved coins (ie pretty worn out!) and barely touched coins. Thank you again!

Hello 🙂 thank you for letting me join the forum. I've been reading through the various posts for the last few weeks. I have recently inherited a number of coins; some of which have been fairly well looked after, some of which are in old, damp albums and some of which are rattling around in boxes and tins. I hope you won't mind me posting a few on here every now and again as I start to sort through them all 😊. At first glance it looks like some of them might be worth a little bit and others are worth nothing more than the enjoyment of looking at them and learning about them. A lot of the ones in albums have gone green! Hopefully there's a photo attached of the better of the storage containers. The coins in these containers are in little velvety trays. Hopefully this all posts correctly! Thank you 🙂.