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Pre decimal British coinage was so convoluted. "Oi, lad, that'll be a Guinea, 2 Florins and a bloody shilling"
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- 31 de Ene, 2021
Only because we haven't grown up with it.
also your given price there is equal to one pound and six shillings (£1 6s), the guinea wasn't in circulation after 1816.
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- 2 de Abr, 2023
I thought numismatics was some kind of weird religious thing like dianetics, this is only mildly gayer.
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- 14 de Nov, 2017
I have a low-value bronze Constantine I c. ~315 AD. It's just neat seeing something that old.
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- 2 de Ago, 2021
Aw man I used to be obsessed with Greek and Roman coins. I'd give 'em to Alexander as anniversary presents. I wanted to get him a gold Now I buy gold rounds mostly for bullion value and I don't bother with Roman silver. It is still really cool to hold in your hand a coin that really came from Rome, which Romans handled and swapped and stuff.
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- 14 de Abr, 2021
I have a Constantine bronze coin as well. I searched everywhere I could but only found one image of it with no information. Does anyone know any sites I could use to help identify the coin? Maybe @Stan would know?
Dodecahedrons are pretty strange objects. There's one theory suggesting that they were created by metalsmiths which could explain why they were stored in coin hoards.
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- 31 de Ene, 2021
Numista is what I use for all my coin info needs, if it's not on there I think you might be SOoL
I'm of the "tool for knitting gloves" opinion
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- 14 de Nov, 2017
Oh, I do. It took me a long time to identify my coin, but I found it.
It's old school and not easy to search, but your coin is probably on there.
My coin has a wrong and confusing description however. It states Jupiter (Jove) is on the obverse, but I doubt that, I believe it is actually supposed to be Sol Invictus given the time period!
This has been debunked I think. The mittens are pretty much unusable and there are better techniques, or something. I personally wonder if it's device for ring sizing.
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- 14 de Abr, 2021
Numista is the first place I checked when I got it, but no luck. Numista is great for looking up more modern world coins.
Good to know, I'll have to take a look when I'm off work. If I don't have luck I'll try to get a decent picture and upload it here.
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- 20 de Abr, 2021
I have recently got a collection of very old 20th century Chinese cash that is really dusty and smells way more like dust and dirt than the typical currency smell. It was 20 dollars for 60 bills and is usually that cheap because of it's condition. Any mint condition of these bills would cost you a lot more much like how I spent a few dollars on a Zimbabwe $10,000 bill in much poorer condition as mint conditions of this bill is extremely rare and costs hundreds of dollars. And yes, The strip that says $1000 is actually part of the real bill. Zimbabwe currency makers have their eyes of the hyperinflation than detail.
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My dad's friend gifted me a 100 million dollar Zimbabwe note like a decade ago but I have no idea where it's gone. I don't know much at all about bills, but I like revolution/civil war bills and imperial Japanese bills.
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- 20 de Abr, 2021
I also have a fair collection of bills from Imperial Japan as well as Nazi Germany.
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- 16 de Ene, 2020
Anyone else into collecting worthless coins? I picked these up last year, some coins from a machine at the Tampa aquarium and some copper dinosaur coins that looked neat on ebay. Bit wasteful but I really like this kind of stuff.
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- 31 de Ene, 2021
I think they're nice mementos from a holiday/outing; I have a Legoland penny and a Notre Dame de Paris round from childhood. I wouldn't personally collect them outside of those, but if they make you happy to have them I say more power to you!
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@Jimmy Hopkins and @Harbinger of Kali Yuga,
there are 1,469 hits for "bronze constantine" coins on numista, maybe you'll find yours here.
i recenty acquired a 4th century bce 1/10 stater coin from carthage. it's composed of electrum, which is a naturally-occurring alloy of silver and gold (though later civilizations, including the phoenicians, would create electrum artificially). it's absolutely amazing to hold this tiny (less than a gram) piece of ancient history in my hand! it was also ridiculously expensive, but i don't care because i wanted an electrum coin, and i wanted it to be from carthage.
there are 1,469 hits for "bronze constantine" coins on numista, maybe you'll find yours here.
i recenty acquired a 4th century bce 1/10 stater coin from carthage. it's composed of electrum, which is a naturally-occurring alloy of silver and gold (though later civilizations, including the phoenicians, would create electrum artificially). it's absolutely amazing to hold this tiny (less than a gram) piece of ancient history in my hand! it was also ridiculously expensive, but i don't care because i wanted an electrum coin, and i wanted it to be from carthage.
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- 3 de Nov, 2019
That was possibly a bank token. Because the Royal Mint could not keep up with demand, even after engaging a private mint in Birmingham, a lot of companies ranging from banks (in Scotland and Northern Ireland still issue there own notes and the coins have a local design) issued tokens sometimes the size of a ha'penny, but other times they could be for non standard denominations like ten pence (I've a bank token for that sum from the reign of George IV). These tokens provided change, but also provided publicity for businesses ranging from mines, canals, banks or taverns. Now they could also be strictly for overpriced company stores, but these were usually to provide coins where they couldn't easily be got. It should be noted that a laborer in mid 19th century England would be lucky to earn £20, although if you recall that a pound was a gold Sovereign, it might provide a better idea of value.
I've a fair few Sovereigns and no end of pennies (one Georgian cartwheel), a tupenny (2d), Crowns (5s), Half Crowns (2s 6d obviously), Florins (2s), Shilling (1s) hapennies (1/2d), farthing (1/4 d). I don't have any Guineas (£1 1s) but these disappeared after 1814 and these gold coins were rare anywhere. Famously, the prizes in horse racing might still be denominated in Guineas.
Also some Roman coins from Elgabalus to Justinian and a Bactrian coin.
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- 31 de Ene, 2021
Nope, minted for use in Ceylon and later Britain by the Royal Mint at Tower Hill. There's also a quarter farthing for use in Ceylon (which go for about £80/$100 these days!), and a third farthing for use in Malta. Another strange denomination I have is a three halfpence.
Both next to a standard match for scale (please forgive the quality, I have shaky hands)
Any other odd denominations farmers know of?
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- 3 de Nov, 2019
I you like em, they're good. A fair number of collection seems to be about keeping up with the Joneses, no originality.
Below are some random, reverse and obverse; 20 kopeks from 1914, a 1961 one Rouble commemorating Yuri Gargarin's space trip, a Denarius of Elgabalus, a Syrian Emperor who worshipped a black rock and could be a True and Honest Woman married to a wrestler, when he wasn't marrying Vestal Virgins plus a Bactrian coin. Hope the photos aren't too blurred and these are thumbnails in case a janny screams at me.
