YeOldeCollector

Happy birthday, David!

This will be a good place to start: http://www.coins-of-the-uk.co.uk/

Hello Duncan,

If you can send me some clear photographs I'll gladly see if I can help.

It's good to see another Surrey member here!

Kindest regards,

Clive.

He's been away from CoinPeople for a while now and I'm led to believe taken a backseat from collecting Napoleonic material. He's alive and well on other forums, I'm told. Whether he'll return here is a different question.

Welcome!

I've travelled to much of Croatia and it is a beautiful country!

I suspect that it's one of the £1 replicas found in museum shops. To the bottom left of the shield there would normally be WRL - Westair Reproductions Limited, but your example 'conveniently' has this scratched away. On the obverse the edge of the coin on the right hand side looks 'raised' which doesn't bode well, either. It also looks not to be silver but it could just be your images.

Please bear in mind that I'm only going from the images you've provided. It's always much easier to spot these things in hand.

All in all it looks like one of these that's been roughed up to try and deceive.

Is it possible to get some clearer photographs? Specifically so I can see the area to the bottom left of the reverse shield.

Some medieval silver coins finishing soon here.

Happy birthday, Alfonso!

I do not see any pictures here, Luis, but am intrigued with regard to the error.

Clive.

Please take a look at this selection of sets and gold here.

If you had asked me a few months earlier I would have sent you many of those dates F.O.C.

 

 

This would appear to be Henry II - John, I think I see the lettres R I C on the obverse of the piece - and it is a short cross coin meaning it was struck prior to Henry III. Coins were struck in the name of Henry even through the reigns of Richard I and King John.

 

This could be any of Henry II, Richard, John or Henry III as all minted shortcross pennies in the name of Henry. Portrait looks more like a John. Can't read mint from photograph.

Edward IV Halfpenny.

Looks to be a Henry VII sovereign penny with mitre above shield. Spink 2233/4.

Edward I penny, class 4e of Canterbury.

One day, YOC. One day...

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Better images are needed for any detailed analysis.

Please take a look at a selection of coins I've listed that finish this weekend.

Must be always exciting to piece a story together and learn more about a particular period and its economy

Oh, it is.

YOC, from what I understand, a lot of coins were kept in stashes centuries after they were minted. Now, how often are these finds contemporary (i.e. buried soon after minting) vs. more modern hoard buried a few centuries later? Regardless, it's remarkable that these coins have been in the earth longer than my country has been occupied by Europeans.

It entirely depends on the context and date of the hoard. Most of the early hoards (10th-12th centuries) won't contain coins from more than, let's say, 20 years apart due to the reminting of old coins into new types every few years. However, when we get to later periods (15th-17th centuries) we see coins from across vast periods being contained within them, e.g. the Hartford Hoard that had 1,108 silver groats from the reigns of Edward IV, Henry VI, Richard III and Henry VII, and double patards of Charles the Bold.

Huge hoard of medieval silver coins discovered in Scotland http://bbc.in/1bnCQae

Lovely medal and for near spot, even better!