big_malky Posted April 30, 2008 Posted April 30, 2008 Has anyone ever seen something like this. Its an 1881 Victoria sixpence which seems to have been painted Quote
Chris Perkins Posted April 30, 2008 Posted April 30, 2008 Or, more accurately, enamelled. The Victorians did that a lot to their own coinage and to those of previous reigns. They are not really of interest to most numismatists but very pretty ones or completely intact ones are saleable. Quote
Chris Perkins Posted May 1, 2008 Posted May 1, 2008 Looking again, that's 1887. That was the jubilee year and a lot of 1887 coins were enamelled and sold as souvenirs. I've even seen 1889 coins enamelled to look like 1887. Quote
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