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    British colonial coins with non-lsd denominations

    in Enquiries about Non British coins

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    16 hours ago, Paddy said:

    Well I have just acquired this, which fits the criteria nicely. 1928 Cyprus 45 Piastre - same size as the British Crown:

    Very nice.

    14 hours ago, Sleepy said:

    I have taken a slight interest in Cypriot coins, I was born their.

    Be careful there are forgeries of these Crowns going around, yours looks ok Paddy see below an example the tell tale appears to be the "ding" on Georges temple.

    Is that example yours? I know it's a low mintage coin but surely it's not rare enough to warrant faking - there's hardly a shortage.

    Halfpenny ID check

    in British Coin Related Discussions & Enquiries

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    On 9/27/2021 at 5:17 AM, Zo Arms said:

    One thing that I have found frustrating in the search for varieties of half pennies, is the huge amount of information that is available. 

    I have 2 editions of Freeman's work, 1970 and the Rotographic edition 2016. A copy of David Groom's Bronze Varieties. Salzman. The Dracott articles are stored on my phone. A free access to Google. And the wealth of knowledge within the forum. I am aware of Peck, Gouby and Mal Lewendon but don't have their work as yet.

    All invaluable but not together as one source.

    Stumbled across this a short while ago whilst searching the net. 

    A Treatise on Varieties of British Fractional Bronze.

    Tom Schumann.

    Published by Lulu, to order.

    Helpfully they advertise at the bottom of this page. Or they do on my phone.

    Ordered a copy a few days ago. Is anyone else aware of it or has a copy?

    Screenshot_2021-09-26-19-24-36-128.jpg

    I wrote that book so my opinion will be biased but I was also frustrated by the number of references I needed on hand, especially for halfpenny varieties. If you go to https://www.commonwealthcoins.net/book/british-fractional-bronze there's a link to a .pdf of the farthing section only if you want to get an idea of what it's like.

    Major differences to Freeman are that I consider Victoria obverses 11 and 12 the same (I looked at many photos and it looked like both obverses exhibited similar features, not to mention that some published diagnostics are contradictory) and the George VI varieties get some proper coverage.

    Any feedback, please send it my way.

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    British colonial coins with non-lsd denominations

    in Enquiries about Non British coins

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    Yeah there were certainly a few different systems in place.

    Looks like Canada and Honduras had 50c = one florin and Hong Kong had 50c = a half crown

    India, Mauritius and East Africa all had a rupee half way between the florin and half crown so they didn't quite match any denomination.

    All the lsd colonies had coins that were almost the same/the same (though Jamaica and Nigeria had some coins were a couple of mm off).

    I think Cyprus and Demerara and Essequibo were the only two that weren't lsd that had most coins match British coin sizes more or less.

     

    And India probably needed to decimalise more than any country with a system like that.

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    British colonial coins with non-lsd denominations

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    Cyrpus had coins with roughly the same sizes as British silver coins (9 piastres was one shilling) and I read recently that Essequibo and Demerara were the same (one guilder was one shilling).

    Does anyone know of any other examples like this? I think most of the rest of commonwealth used the pound or some sort of dollar (where the half dollar usually seemed to be equivalent to a florin).

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