copper123 Posted 15 hours ago Posted 15 hours ago I now have my own New model crown and a total beauty it is to I got it for less than three figures so am really happy its in about EF grade 3 Quote
copper123 Posted 14 hours ago Posted 14 hours ago I must admit it looks very dated for the time (About 1850 ) a time when the british empire was massively expanding IMHO but at the time it's a perfectly good pattern coin Quote
Peckris 2 Posted 1 hour ago Posted 1 hour ago That would place it around the time of the Great Exhibition of 1851. Fascinating to speculate it may have been struck there to demonstrate minting machinery, just as the 1951 crown was struck at the Festival of Britain. Quote
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