HistoricCoinage

Seems some folk go even further to get to the bottom of coin mysteries: https://phys.org/news/2026-09-materials-analysis-minting-mystery-british.html

Buttttt, it does have a 20% off coupon! Please don't blame the postie if this turns up on your door mat this week, Stuart... 😬

There have been several of the same style posted here:

I'm pretty confident these are both modern replicas. Yours, Stuart, looks like someone 'aged' it to try and pass it off as genuine (vs just contemporary).

Truth is, we'll likely never know the story of this but almost definitely some sort of marketing effort given the style of the stamp. The surname has strong Cornish roots, but only 'famous' merchant of that era is William Hearne Pellow, head of a mercantile firm in Liverpool. Here are some details from an archive: https://www.old-merseytimes.co.uk/kirkdalecemetery2.html

Not a medieval coin I've ever seen before...

Looks to me like an Indian issue, perhaps of the Portuguese colonial types. Plenty of similarities looking at a quick Google search.

Try logging in on a different browser (or using incognito mode in Chrome, others have in private browsing too). This should allow you to see if it's a site issue or not (and hopefully allow you to reply!).

Top pop!

Was immediately drawn to the image in a museum recently and noted the mismatch with the text 😄 Mind you, they had a few coin hoards on display though! Lewes Castle, for anyone interested.

Looks like an Edward I or II farthing to me, of the later classes (e.g. 10).

Read this in just a few days while travelling, would recommend as a light read: https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/462484/a-history-of-britain-in-ten-enemies-by-deary-terry/9781804994979

Looks a little suspicious to me... https://ebay.us/m/N6Cgr8

Just back from WA, the jacarandas are absolutely spectacular this time of year!

These almost always appear at 12 O'clock on the obverse, before the monarch's name. 🙂 Without literature to hand, looks like a Treaty period groat without French titles. Dating to between 1361-9.