YeOldeCollector

Another hammered today, came from Australia!

Henry VI Rosette-Mascle Issue Halfgroat of Calais Mint, a strong VF+ in my opinion. Spink 1862, circa 1430.

Aethelred II - Crvx Penny, circa 1000 A.D., Godwine on Thetford.

Looks like it's been in contact with iron of some sort, but this has to be one of the best I've seen condition wise, no cracks, of which the Crvx are notorious for and no clipping at all! Don't you just love his forehead-eye?

yes sir

Cheers!

"wahid penny" - one penny!

Is that what it says in the scripture?

Got this from a relative, turns out he collects Early Milled focusing on Anne!! Looks like I'll have to pay him a long visit one day!

From a monarch that was on the throne for less than a year, not bad!

Cheers,

Clive.

3 Edward I Pennies, middle is a class 1C of London, one on right is a Class 4a of London and the one on the left is a Class 4d of London.

Many thanks,

Clive.

Well here's one that arrived today, will post others later.

Anna, Queen Anne, is one of my favourite Queens and so I can't resist the odd coin! 1711 Shilling with a rather nice portrait.

Enjoy!

(P.S. I'm amazed to see that this topic has had nearly 100,000 views... Thanks!)

Received this gut today, not bad for a milled...

George IV, 1825 Halfcrown, nice patina which is very hard to photograph.

Cheers,

Clive.

Fast payer and overall great buyer! Cheers!!

Clive.

Not a problem!

Eloye Mestrelle, a Frenchman, began to mint coins for Elizabeth using a screw press with parts of it driven by horses, the quality was much better than the general poor quality of the hammered issued but it took far too long and was very inefficient and he was hung in 1578 for "counterfeiting", yet milled coins became permanent features less than 100 years later.

Clive.

Elizabeth I issued hammered coins, and briefly milleds before resorting to hammereds after hanging the Frenchman that introduced milled coinage as she thought it was too slow a process!

1794 Chichester Half-Penny token, "+Payable at Dallys Chichester+", I bought it for the hammered connection with Lizzie!

Clive.

Here's one that arrived today!

Henry III, early, Class 1b, reading hENRICVS REX ANG on the obverse and, for a change, LIE TERCI LON on the reverse, thus making it London Mint. Spink 1359, I'd say VF+, I just love the portrait! Circa 1250.

Great minds think alike, eh?

Humm... They look strangely familiar Steve!!

Clive.

Cheers RD!

Clive.

I collect hammered coins but hey, a banknote or two won't matter!!

Here are some lovely banknotes that Raoul kindly sent me from Oz.

Cheers Raoul!!

Cheers Sir Sisu!

I'm not too keen on the modern coins personally!

I'm glad that you like these coins, I have several more hundred hammereds in my collection and also have some spares for sale on my website if you're interested...

Also, the joys of collecting hammered coins is the interlinking between countries, such as Henry VI with Calais as an English province, Cnut and his Scandinavian influence and Offa with his Arabic coinage. But you can't go wrong with a good old English silver penny!

Clive.

Another hammered in today's post.

Edward I transition penny, in design of previous monarch and father, Henry III.

Provenance: Ex. DNW auction.

For more info on these coins and Edward I's coinage check out my blog on my site: http://historiccoinage.com/edwardI.aspx

Cheers,

Clive.

3 new hammereds today!

Not in the best of condition but it has a nice error, it reads CIVI TAS TAS ***, shame it had the last 3 letters broken but it most likely says Lon but it could be of another mint... We'll never know.

Edward the Confessor, probably my favourite Anglo-Saxon monarch in terms of coins, Expanding Cross Penny, Stircol on York, 1050-53. Photos do not do it justice! Spink 1176.

Edward the Confessor Radiate/Small Cross Type, 1044-46, Scula on York, again, photos do not do it justice! Spink 1173.

Nice!

Thanks!

Here's one of my favourite, most recent new purchases.

I am in the process of researching it but at the moment it appears to be North 800 with a blundered legend, with elements of both Cnut's and Edward's legend in, but one cannot be absolutely sure. Even so it is still an extremely rare coin.

Edward The Confessor, (transition penny from Cnut), Pacx, (Peace), penny. The country split into two when Cnut died, with Harold I ruling from 1035-40 and Harthacnut ruling from 1035-42 and so this coin was probably blundered due to the moneyer not knowing who was the monarch! He had originally put Cnut with Cnut's Shortcross obverse and then changed it to Edward, it's obverse legend actually reads +EPDP REX INT, a blundered legend with an abbreviation of Edperd, (EPDP), and a blundered Cnut (what appears to be an I and then NT). One of my favourite coins!

Enjoy!

A guy I know gave me these two beauties, they were in his change from Sainsbury's...

This was passed off as a 50 pence piece, although it appears to be twice the weight, twice the thickness and nearly double the amount of sides... (See photo where it's compared to an actual 50p)

Also this was passed of as a twopence... But I REALLY like the design of this piece!

They make nice novelty additions to my foreign album nonetheless.

I'm still surprised as to how many views this thread has had, not that I'm complaining...

Well I thought that my new 'logo' was to represent the increasing nature of 'chavs' or 'pikeys' in our modern day, British society and wanted to contrast it with our heritage and history.

In recent years, the definition has become loose and is sometimes used to refer to a wide section of the (generally urban) underclass of the country, or merely a person of any social class who "lives on the cheap". This seems to be the meaning intended by Stephen Fry in an episode of QI, grouping together "hoodies and pikeys and chavs", and intimating that these people are of a sort who "go out on the town, beating people up and drinking Bacardi Breezers".

 

The term is considered to have negative connotations; even when it refers to others, many people still consider it to be derogatory and offensive. "Pikey" is frequently used as an adjective, as in "he lives on a pikey estate", "those clothes look pikey" or "(name of cheap shop) is a pikey shop". However, "pikey" is also occasionally used as a verb, a synonym for "steal", as in "Someone's pikeyed me fookin bike".

Chav as an epithet

 

Within the UK "chav" is often used to indicate a person(s) openly exhibiting many antisocial or irresponsible tendancies, particular examples include.

 

* Habitual, willing unemployment,

* Truancy (if of school age)

* Underage sexual activity, particularly if resulting in underage pregnancies,

* Promiscuity and children conceived in casual relationships,

* Assault or incitement to violence, including so called Happy slapping and co-ordinated intimidation.

* Theft,

* Criminal Vandalism,

* Profoundly hubristic behaviour including queue jumping, and enhanced sense of entitlement.

* Public Nuisance, in particular spitting, shouting or playing loud music on the street or on public transport.

* Hatred of the police and other authority figures

* Hatred of other subcultures, such as goths and emos.

 

Requests to keep the noise down, or to move along, are often met with aggression, assault and in some cases even murder [10] . Such individuals often have ASBO's imposed on them for their behaviour.

(Definitions 'pikeyed' from Wikipedia)

But anyway, I shall hopefully be adding some more new purchases to this thread soon!

Many thanks for the info!