Help me identify a coin please

[Guest Daniel]

This coin is just under a cm in diameter and has London written on one side with a circle in the middle and a cross inside it with dots in each quater of the cross also i can see that it has the letters sv and sum others but i am not quite sure, and on the other side it has rosa.sime and sum other writting which looks like spima to me but am not quite sure. in the centre of the coin it looks like a rose which could possible mean its tudor but i would like to know if anyone else could give me more information on this coin. it is silver and is a tad mis shaped. thankyou.

[Geoff T 3]

This is way outside my area, but what you describe sounds like Henry VIII halfpenny. "Rosa sine spina" means "rose without a thorn" and appeared on several denominations of Tudor silver coinage.

Any hammered specialists out there who can shed any more light on this?

Geoff

[Chris Perkins 228]

Daniel,

Make a scan of it and send it to Richard Varnham through www.coinsforsale.co.uk. I sometimes think that what he doesn't know about hammered coins, simply isn't worth knowing!

Be nice to him, he'll help you quicker if you want to sell it!