copper123 Posted July 10 Posted July 10 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 July 10 Posted July 10 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 July 11 Posted July 11 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
copper123 Posted July 11 Posted July 11 4 hours ago, Peckris 2 said: 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. There are more recent examples like the pobjoy mint £1 isle of man coins in the early 1980's at the ideal home exhibitions they had a special privy mark on them. It might be interesting to get a list of exibitors from the great exhibition , to be honest i cannot see the royal mint being there but the heaton mint or moore could have been . I am asuming the new model crown came after the much more common gothic example produced in 1848 or a little later Quote
Citizen H Posted July 11 Posted July 11 (edited) I dont think these have been show by me, undated... the lower one look like it may have a cracked die, albeit not currency and only, model / toy coins... Edited July 11 by Citizen H Quote
Peckris 2 Posted July 12 Posted July 12 20 hours ago, copper123 said: It might be interesting to get a list of exibitors from the great exhibition , to be honest i cannot see the royal mint being there but the heaton mint or moore could have been . I am asuming the new model crown came after the much more common gothic example produced in 1848 or a little later What size is it? 1 Quote
copper123 Posted July 12 Posted July 12 oh matron ! Its the same size as the Moore gothic crowns Quote
copper123 Posted July 12 Posted July 12 I must admit I am disturbed with the reverse one irish symbol one Scottish and yet two English Did someone hate the Welsh? Quote
Peckris 2 Posted July 12 Posted July 12 3 hours ago, copper123 said: oh matron ! Its the same size as the Moore gothic crowns What I mean is - if it's the same smaller size as other toy coins, then it wouldn't have been the Mint at the Great Exh. but probably Moore (presumably Heatons didn't strike toy coins?) Quote
copper123 Posted July 13 Posted July 13 It has a tiny A+M on the bottom rev exergue which means its a joint effort between Allan and Moore 1 Quote
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