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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

That would make sense - hadn't thought of a swivel mount before.

Favorites are a fun thing. Mine is very likely my 1818 Crown. Bit of rim damage (ex jewelry?) but that kept the price where I liked it.

I have more often had sellers who went "oops, I can't find the coin I sold you. I have X if you're interested in it instead". Nothing expensive (most recently a 1981 Bailiwick of Jersey "Square" Pound and offered a Guernsey Type set in it's place) but annoying nonetheless.

I'm new to this game and so the 2025 was my first real book about English coinage. It actually confused me at first when people referred to it as Spink 🤣 I've got no complaints about the quality of the information that is presented though I do wish they'd had mintage numbers in it like the no longer produced Krause books.

The King's Speech about George VI is excellent as well.

Plus if you get into some type of silver coins - I have a thing for shillings especially - there are English Silver Coinage since 1649 by Maurice Bull British Silver Coins since 1816 by Peter J Davies The Identification of British 20th Century Silver Coin Varieties Paperback by David Groom that you can add to your library as well. I find them and my 2025 edition of Coins of England to be great references.

I'd enjoy it but it'll be two weeks before I could do anything about it if you're interested.

If you have any scruffy full crowns, I'd like to buy one as a pocket coin. If that 1817 had been an 1816, I'd want it as a placeholder. I could see that 1723 as a placeholder for that date in my shilling run to save it from the smelter.

Oh, I understand it's hardly practical. Just struck me as a humorous idea, especially since I do use a fair bit of currency and coins in commerce here in the US.

I had these coin folders for most of my collection that I didn't trust the plastic in. So I bought new binder and some better sheets like I've been using for my shilling run and transferred everything over today. While moving the Elizabeth II sets - both l/s/d & decimal - I noticed something that struck me as interesting. Back when the UK changed to decimal, the new 5p & 10p were made the size and weight of the shilling and florin respectively. That ended in 1990 and then over the next couple of years the 5p, 10p, and 50p were made physically smaller. Also in there though the £1 coins and the £2 coins were introduced. The bi-metal £1 is essentially the same diameter and just a bit heavier than a shilling was. The bi-metal £2 coin is almost exactly the size and weight of the florin. I looked at the value of the 1966 shilling at the Bank of England's inflation calculator and even more humorously, the shillings buying power then was £0.82 in December of 2025 - a florin equaling £1.74 now. Not too far off from £1 & £2 pound coins! Perhaps the UK should introduce a circulating £5 coin of 32.5mm and 14.14 grams... ? 🤣

I never trust any AI answer to be even 1% accurate.

Oh, that's a dangerous website. It makes me remember and think about Japanese mon, ichibu-gin and other such Meiji era coins 🤣 I really don't need _Another_ rabbit hole!