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I decided to order it today from your link because of this post Now I just need the other one and I'll have two really nice references!

Yup. Saw a seller the other day with a Rare! Silver! 1953 coronation crown for £669.66/$895. I told him in case it was innocent but it's still there.

Ok, that would work, just let me know how you want to be paid for since I'm overseas

I would very much like to get a paper copy of this since the ebook is Kindle rather than something more useful like PDF. I have no trust for Amazon. Will there be another printing of this book? Thanks! William

My EF 1887 Jubilee was £17 By comparison my EF 1887 Young Head (they made both that year) was £33. Melt is currently £8.55.

I'm more amused by what is allegedly a bronze penny having a fineness of .5 🤣

I enjoy having huge silver coins in my pocket so I added a new one to my “pocket coins” today: a 1971 S proof Eisenhower 40% silver one dollar. It looks fun alongside my 1935 Peace Dollar and 1935 Rocking Horse Crown from the UK. My son was “Oooh! Shiny!” and, yeah, proof coins are cool that way. To protect them I do keep them in encapsulated so that they don’t get scruffed and dinged in my pocket like other circulation coins. Fun stuff

Yup. The Irish shilling is a very cool coin and I was quite pleased to get the 1990 silver proof 5p.

I reported it as a counterfeit coin and mentioned that allowing the sale would make Ebay an accessory. Perhaps that will work...

I had an empty row at the bottom of the last page of my shillings, after the 1970 proof coins. So I decided it would be fun to put together some similar sized and valued coins (in terms of buying power then) from earlier in the 20th century. Plus the 5 pence proof from 1990 is in silver as well because that was the last year they were made the same size as the classic shilling and the shilling was finally being demonitized 20 years after decimal day. The other coins are: 1930 US Standing Liberty Quarter 1917 French 1 Franc 1930 Irish 1 Shilling 1917 Italian 1 Lira 1909 Imperial Germany 1 Mark It’s an interesting comparison of economies that the franc, mark & lira are all a single unit of their basic currency, the US is one fourth of a dollar and the shilling was one twentieth of a pound sterling. Though their economy was weaker, Ireland at that time pegged the Punt to the Pound. The US was far stronger than all of mainland Europe but the UK ruled over all until WWI shattered everyone but the US.

It's fun seeing some of the different colonial & dependency coins out there. I'm at work so these images are from Numista rather than my collection, but I've been really enjoying discovering things like this silver six pence from 1942 Fiji: Or this coin commemorating the Battle of Jersey from 1981 I want to get the New Brunswick and Newfoundland coinage too - the Newfoundland Victorian coins have a marvellous effigy on them: I don't have any of them yet, but seeing this online reminds me why I want to!

I have a set from Fiji. Pretty coins. So are my Guernsey and Jersey ones Canadian Centennial set is cool too. I'd like to get a New Guinea, New Zealand, Australia (both .925 & .500), Bahamas dollar, & Bermuda crown type sets eventually. Once those are done, then on to Africa!

I'm still not as good at this as I want to be but if I were putting it into my catalog, I'd note it as VF+ details obverse and VF reverse because of the wear on the high spots. There's enough of the dress, to me, to warrant VF. I wait to hear other views

I have a jar as part of my tool kit and tested it on a gothic florin with a lot of damage from being ex-jewelry so that if it was bad, I hadn't harmed anything especially valuable. I took a shallow bowl, poured in a bit of the dip and used it like you describe. Within it's limits, it's a good tool in the arsenal.

It pings like silver I suppose? Perhaps have it tested to ensure it is actually 50% silver? I wonder mainly because that appears to be 1936 and there were only 2473 of them minted so it would be a prime target for fakes, then and now. Presuming it's real, there is ~40% copper in the alloy of these, perhaps that's what is causing corrosion? It's just a guess as I've never seen a coin look like this.

Fair in my book. If I got it cheap enough, I'd not mind as one to have until I found one better.

Pity I don't collect half crowns 🤣

So looking at ebay for a 1746 Lima shilling, I saw the proverbial "Price too good to be true". https://www.ebay.com/itm/198094953257?_skw=1746+shilling&itmmeta=01KKASRH7RFABFC5ZNYY4YFKNR&hash=item2e1f611b29:g:rykAAeSwodJpdRoY&itmprp=enc%3AAQALAAAA8GfYFPkwiKCW4ZNSs2u11xA0mfksDvrMm1ZQRfP60NEnrXz3ivogYcgs7TALxGnYnh5FxBOz%2BeNZQmHQ1VxpXnpNQm1HzAwnOXlcNWK2mGx0%2FUL9PfXrXoB%2FKzKQ2428vbb1Gp5kpN3hH2MztQMXP6VuNiD0ex1d4ujAAKGlJrs0xxnfqbmxVwp8lOFtkxPZScua9H5YRA51JtSJgp90J34Jmht6vZcB9%2BZRzrp2PluphQK8pL8WuHVYsOCSStXmZEKN1ScMK54yPlQS4WSR5yNq5HOS%2FElD5Xfi8r3dLDJWI26i8cAML02DRSYtigIhRw%3D%3D|tkp%3ABk9SR4SU4tmaZw 14.3 g weight instead of the 6.02 g it should weigh. Silver over base metal? Don't know but I'd rather find a real one.

That type of 4 pence is for circulation. https://en.numista.com/13209 These were the cabby's much hated "Joey" coin. I picked up an 1836 a while back.

My understanding, which is likely to be wildly wrong, is that it's pretty much only the Crowns, Double Florins & various Sovereigns that are officially legal tender. I must admit, I'd enjoy seeing a shop keeper presented with a fugly 1965 Churchill crown for a 25 p debt! The look on his face would be amusing, I'm certain.

Not likely to show up in the UK, but just in case... I have an acquaintance who's father was awarded this medal for his work in creating the Clad Metal system used to replace Silver in US Coins (dime, quarter, half dollar and dollar). It went missing from a drawer in his apartment shortly before he died in December. If by any chance you see it, please let me know. Thank you.

There is a part of me that thinks that buying a fake - from someone selling them as reproductions - for space fillers for something like, say the 1798 Dorrien Magers shilling that only 20 still exist - is fine. Pay $5 since I'll never probably even see a real one and concentrate on spending good money for the real ones like the 1787 I got recently. But no sympathy for anyone trying to pass a fake as real.

Neat. Looks like this to me: https://en.numista.com/18310 since the lettering impression seems to be short enough for Queen rather than Empress though I don't know a whole lot about British India Rupee coins. I should fix that

Cool! She has a wiki page too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Susan_Hicks_Beach

Mine is very similar to yours. Still very beautiful coins and I love how the Albert ruffled feathers with them