victorian threepenny piece

[Guest graham2]

Hi all.Can anyone help me out here as I'm very new to this .I have a young Victoria silver threepenny piece dated 1845 with the head and the rev side opposite ways up.Is this normal for this year or not.Thanks in antisipation

[Gary D 76]

Hi all.Can anyone help me out here as I'm very new to this .I have a young Victoria silver threepenny piece dated 1845 with the head and the rev side opposite ways up.Is this normal for this year or not.Thanks in antisipation

Yes, normal

Gary

[Red Riley 2]

Hi all.Can anyone help me out here as I'm very new to this .I have a young Victoria silver threepenny piece dated 1845 with the head and the rev side opposite ways up.Is this normal for this year or not.Thanks in antisipation

Generally speaking most coins before approximately 1800 were minted in such a way that the two sides were at 180 deg. to each other. The period between 1800 and 1887 was a transitional stage and from 1887 virtually everything has been minted the modern way with both sides the same way up.

[Guest graham2]

Thanks very much for that.Guess I have a bit to learn and thats my million gone out of the window then.Again.Thankyou.