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Any Old Coin Gurus?
« on: September 26, 2009, 05:03:28 PM »
Found this today while doing a deep cleaning on a closet.  It must've come with the house, as I've never seen anything like it before.

Obverse


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Size comparison to a quarter (duh)


What is it? ???
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Re: Any Old Coin Gurus?
« Reply #1 on: September 26, 2009, 05:14:41 PM »
Well, at least you can bracket that British coin to the timeframe of King George V, circa WWI.  ;)
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Re: Any Old Coin Gurus?
« Reply #2 on: September 26, 2009, 05:53:14 PM »
It's a British half silver half copper coin (can't tell if it's a penny, twopence or threepence) from between 1911 and 1927.

"George V, by the Grace of God, of all the Britains King, Defender of the Faith, Emperor of India."


EDIT: Upon doing some quick looking through World Coins, I'm guessing it's a threepence. It's about 16mm in diameter (~.64"), to check that simply see if it goes from George Washington's head to the base of his neck - the length of the entire bust on the US Quarter you have there is about .64" as well.  =)
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Re: Any Old Coin Gurus?
« Reply #3 on: September 26, 2009, 05:59:56 PM »
Just below the crown on the reverse is the number 10... so 10 pence?
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Re: Any Old Coin Gurus?
« Reply #4 on: September 26, 2009, 06:03:05 PM »
No such coin, as 12d (pence) was 1s (shilling) during George V's reign. 1d, 2d, 3d, 4d were all common.
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Re: Any Old Coin Gurus?
« Reply #5 on: September 26, 2009, 06:03:58 PM »
Double post.
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Re: Any Old Coin Gurus?
« Reply #6 on: September 26, 2009, 06:19:53 PM »
I'm holding it in my hand right now, and I swear this



is a 1 and a 0, right next to each other.  =|
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Re: Any Old Coin Gurus?
« Reply #7 on: September 26, 2009, 06:22:54 PM »
That's fine, but... there aren't ten pence coins from George V's reign.
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Re: Any Old Coin Gurus?
« Reply #8 on: September 26, 2009, 08:27:52 PM »
I think I found it...

http://www.silvercoinworld.com/images/largecoin/canada/SN853766%20copy.jpg

Given its extremely poor condition, I guess it's just worth its silver.

I still think it's cool, though.  =)  Going into my random collection, for certain.
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Re: Any Old Coin Gurus?
« Reply #9 on: September 26, 2009, 08:37:22 PM »
Whoops, my bad. I was thinking exclusively G.B. Sorry.  =)
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Re: Any Old Coin Gurus?
« Reply #10 on: September 26, 2009, 08:48:58 PM »
 :laugh: No problem.

Something I learned from all this, though: finding a picture online of a coin from the early 20th century will take a couple hours.  =(
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Re: Any Old Coin Gurus?
« Reply #11 on: September 26, 2009, 09:06:42 PM »
Had I included Canada, it would've taken all of five minutes. Again, my apologies.  :|
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