That shilling is a good one - I would be happy with that one reverse is abt unc and obverse looks slightly worse .
The trouble with the OH obverse is they always look slightly worn even if they haven't been ,Victoria's hair is usually the giveaway.
Tone is great and something to be loved
For some reason 1887 shillings and sixpences are very common in high grades I really wish edward and old head shillings sixpences and florins were as easy to find they are still missing from my type set - prob 'because i'm a mean ****er
A bit hard to get to unless you have a car - you can get there by rail wakefield - manchester but its quite a walk from the station and busses are less frequent on sundays - taxi is best
And sorry I cannot grade that JH shilling much better than fine - a dealer should be shot for selling that as VF - at that grade is pretty much scrap silver . You could pick an EF up for £8 - £10
The person who bought them - took them out of circulation years ago and probably died in the 1730's , I seriously think he never recieved any folding money for them
Over the years I have bought many coins from the horwich parkway collectors fair , there is usually one a month .
In the last two years or so nice finds have gone lower and lower as the old dealers die and are not replaced with younger ones but I still go every so often hopeing to find something nice
Coin collectors are like rotweilers they never give up .
I think york is arround 85 miles from manchester , its a great hunting ground , there is a collectors fair at horwich parkway at the bolton stadium in the spring summer and autumn
The birmingham fair is only 100 miles away
Books are best for a young or starting out collector , try not to buy at first but borrow from a library , it should not cost you much that way
Buy a few books esp out of print ones - you usually get your money back for them if you get bored .
I have also heard that our brucie had a terrible temper as well, it's only an adoring large crowd that he was interested in , oh and a big pair of knockers as well
Pretty sure there never was a "lifehouse " album and pure and easy first appeared on odds and sods as a who album well it did on my old copy on "track records", it was used like whos next as a platform for petes lifehouse songs his best and most creative period .It really was a shame the whole thing never really came together
Fantastic price wish that coin was mine , its been missing from my farthing collection for years
Would grade it as Good fine and worth every penny of £100
You are very lucky to have it