Just got my first high grade 1866 1/13'th of a penny and want to share the joy. About XF, nice looking

http://www.omnicoin.com/coin_view_enlarge.aspx?id=942748

Its a beauty, thanks for showing

Great looking coin you got there

nice find

1/13th of a shilling? Seriously? I thought a shilling was equal to 12 pence. So was this worth 0.92 of a penny?

You can get all of the history of Jersey coins here http://jerseycoins.com/

I've got some better samples posted there too, like quite amaizing 1/48'th of a shilling. I have stalled at my early 1/26'th of a shilling mostly, didn't get even 10% of my Jersey scanned yet, I am barely managing to scan and post the new arrivals

Jersey's coinage and that of Guernesey were unique, because they weren't quite French, nor quite English. Whilst Jersey did adopt larger vernacular coins, ie shilling, it's divisions thereof were different being that they were 1/52nd shilling, 1/26th shilling, 1/13th shilling etc. Meanwhile on Guernesey, they denominated their day to day coins in doubles, pronounced like doobles, so that a penny was actually 8 doubles, a farthing 2 doubles, halfpenny was 4 doubles etc. Threepence were 1/4 shilling in both places.

And BTW Sandy, nice colouring on the 1/13th, like it much.

I have been to Jersey dozens of times and I know of one coin shop, I bought many Jersey coins from the gentlemen. Made a change from hammereds, looks like I always need my fix of coins, even on holiday!



Cheap yet very nice coins, think I'll stick to English and Irish hammered though...

Thanks. Have you seen the 1/48'th of a penny? http://www.omnicoin.com/coin_view_enlarge.aspx?id=937525

Another catch - Real nice 1/24'th for 1909, lots of red

http://www.omnicoin.com/coin_view_enlarge.aspx?id=950211

I'd say that the Krause pricing is out of line (among many other things) between 1/12'th and 1/24'th for this year. Half pennies were issued substantially smaller mintage and they are rarer to find then bigger coins.