Coinery

Ironic that a post titled ‘quiet’ has become the busiest post on the forum right now! 🤷‍♂️

Nice one, Paddy, well done with that lot! 👏👏

Rather than an exposure to cash, it was the affordable access to a tangible history for me, that’s how I came to coins. I agree though, it is disappointingly quiet on here nowadays.

Great stuff…any identifiable hammered coin at £5 is always going to be a win. This one is very identifiable, it’s a Threehalfpence. The Greek Cross is only known on this denomination with dates 1578/5 and 1579, so not that difficult to say which yours is, it’s clearly the overdate, showing a definite 5 in the mix. This is BCW CR-1C:a, S2574 - a nice piece to have at £5 definitely. Edit: If you have some scales it will likely weigh a smidge over 0.5g (maybe as much as 0.6g) with the missing piece and wear taken into account.

£5 😲 That’s phenomenally good…can we see?

What IS the privy mark?

Blimey, Pete…considering the number of eyes that fall upon the eBay pennies, you certainly manage to winkle out your fair share of the gems!

It’s of course 1678 and not 73 - I think the Maundy money was first of the press, so generally the better pieces but, in practice, I believe there to be little/no difference as far as collectors of Maundy are concerned - they still of course aim for the very best pieces. I was looking at some completed items on eBay, a lot of them were holed.

Well please can someone get in there and screenshot everything for a file at least? I don’t collect halfpennies myself but can appreciate the tragedy should it fall foul.

@Rob saw this and thought of you!

You’re having a good root around the forum…as educational as any book on coins for sure!

A respectable example it’s true, but a significant ‘grade’ below the OP coin, though £400+ was an eye-watering sum.

I was thinking to replace this one, but clearly not this time around!

How much for its heritage, a coin from the Knaresborough Priory hoard of 1805?