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I cannot think it would be ever worth faking a fifty pence coin now - even the £1 coin is hardly worth faking these days
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Exactly- not all mint engravers were totally literate or paid much attention to their job , all the time , little mistakes are made - this reached dizzy hights in the reign of william III but got better slowly over time and came to a stop around Edwardian times
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First pound coin 1983 - kept as it was the first worth about £2 - your granddad would have done better putting it in a building society account - but he never knew that .
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The issue being described as a special issue would also account for the high number of coins turned into jewelry (and /or holed) and also the gilt pieces
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Another date that comes up frequently at least for sixpences is 1758, a decent hoard of high grade examples was found in a vault somewhere years ago and dispersed into the market.
1787 also saw the coinage of a decent amount of gold for a change - nice because I have a guinea from that year.
I think it's also due to the fact they kept on minting them (and shillings) for years, the same is probably true for 1754 copper.
1754 farthings were minted for at least a couple of years after that date - exactly like 1967 pennies
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The best advice to a prospective collector is buy something you like and enjoy.Does not matter what - as long as you enjoy the coins, THAT'S WHAT MATTERS
Those coins will be living with you for maybe half a lifetime or even longer
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Super coin worth £200 +
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Got it now LOL
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well in 2013 they do anyway - not sure about the 1780's
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Is not "A bank passing on a new currency to its customers " called putting a new issue into circulation these days - surely a bank has no say in what happens to money it has just given out to a customer - they do with it as they wish
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I suspect the reason was because ,even though they were produced in large numbers, they were hoarded - GB plc was in real trouble at the time france looked in real danger of either passing their revolution to the UK or later on with invasion from napoleon. The american colonies were lost so a pottentally a large source of tax income was no more.
And finally the king was behaving very strangely
A lot of the coins in circulation were old and very worn (how often have you seen William III silver with no clear dates).
The old addage of bad money drives out good , rang true here with everyone in the country trying to get hold of these coins of good weight and high silver content and salting them away under beds etc , just in case the worst happened.
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I strongly suspect that many crowns dated 1935 and 1937 did circulate for short times .
Often kept as pocket pieces these silver crowns would stop in someones pocket as a "good luck" charm.
Probably till the owner maybe needed the money for train fare to work , or even food , he would reluctantly spend it (no credit cards til the mid sixties).
My grandfather told me he had a gold sov till the mid 1930s as a pocket piece but it got spent on a train fare to work as he had no spare cash one day just b4 pay day.
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Maybe we should give farthings a new nickname "A goodie"
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SHAKESPEARE
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It would be nice if it were a genuine piece but the odds are stacked way against it.
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I am expecting Bill Oddie to pop up in this forum any minute
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They are expensive , but look top quality too , so are ideal for a dealer who would get heavy use out of them
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Difficult date - nice coin but you are very pleased
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Or maybe that it looks like a thingy.
Didn't baldrick "do" sailors for sixpence , i wonder what a groat would have got you?
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I must admit that is a really lovely coin.
But i am not too sure of the portait - that mouth looks really strange, a bit like he's just been told a filthy joke
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Funny enough the 1855 ww raised farthing is far rarer than the ww incuse coin but it often struggles to reach even a premium over the price of a ww incuse coin - it seems collectors are very reluctant to pay any sort of premium for it .
Maybe collectors only want one example of this date.
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I read somewhere the wren is the most common british bird so that maybe its big claim to fame now.
people don't believe it as they say they don't see them , they are a bit reclusive and tend not to be as obvious as other birds like robins and sparrows
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I have always found that the worst time to sell coins is the three weeks running up to xmas and the month after xmas- coins put on at these times just don't get the prices you think they will get - there are always exceptions of course.
Logically it is a good time to buy as others are not.
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£700-750 is about right.
Womder if his mate got a bargain then
LOL
Dodgy 50P In My Change :)
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Yes i know there are many fake £1 coins in circulation now .
I have heard large quantities go for 40p each in dodgy places round here.
Pity the post office are not a bit more vigilent taking the darn things out of circulation - probably because it just loses them money i surpose