Garrett

You'll have to show us a pic.

Well done, I do like the early George V half crowns !!

aaahhh - i've just woken up. A Euro-Ace is a metal detector. I did wonder how Vicky knew it was Justin who cleaned it. Okay, carry on.

The bullion price Paulus has quoted leads me to believe he has mistaken it for the full Sov

Welcome to the forum Toby and it would be interesting to see a picture of your find !

Not rarer, just more popular.

Haha good one !

LOL seems a bit dishonest to me....

welcome Sweep !

Beautiful - love those YH copper pennies.

Is the wine for you or her ?

I have a few pennies. Favourites are George IV through 1859, with probably the Viccy young head most favourite. Least favourite is the cartwheel. Cheers Garrett

Nice coins mate, shame you need to sell them. Hope you get good prices !

it might be a double-florin. Not a bad coin !

Very interesting AC. I'm sorry I cannot add much to the discussion but my 1807 looks very much like the one you have posted, but it is only VF. My 1806 (a proof) is a lot like that too, except the blob at the bow of your ship looks bigger. Good luck with your research ! cheers Garrett.

Yes agreed, welcome !

And hopefully cleaned

Well I've just received my first slabbed coin. Not by design; I saw a nice 1927 wreath crown at a website at a fair price and it just happened to be slabbed in an NGC holder. I must admit I am not as put-off as I thought I would be about the slab. I was planning to extract the coin immediately but the holder seems to protect the coin well (I'm sure a 5 year old could fling it against a wall with no damage to the coin) with good visibility of the coin and the rims/edges. The holder itself is not unattractive. My only dilemma now is that i was planning to have my crowns in large adhesive flips lined up in a coin album page so will now have to rethink what I am going to do.... It's a nice coin the wreath crown, nice design both sides. cheers Garrett.

Looks like a nice coin to me. There's a couple of scratches on Eddie's neck, and looks like some small marks under the letters from 12-2 oclock on the obverse. But still, not a bad coin and I suspect you may have got a nice discount just because of the 'but' factor ('coin is in X condition but...') that will scare the speculators and investors. cheers Garrett.

Gorgeous. Simply gorgeous. Not you Bob. The coin.

Yes I think Peck may be correct. Welcome to the forum and what a great find !

From Wikipedia, For silver crowns, the grade of silver adhered to the long-standing standard (established in the 12th century by Henry II) – the Sterling Silver standard of 92.5% silver and 7.5% copper. This was a harder-wearing alloy, yet it was still a rather high grade of silver. It went some way towards discouraging the practice of "clipping", though this practice was further discouraged and largely eliminated with the introduction of the milled edge seen on coins today.

Very nice tokens BRG. But how come St George is always slaying a little dragon ?? ha ha

Yes nice coin !

Probably to draw attention to the fact that mints produce all sorts of crap as 'legal tender'. 'Coins' by a rather loose definition IMO