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New Victorian penny illustrations

Started by tonyclayton, November 03, 2008, 12:15:03 AM

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tonyclayton

Thanks to an extremely generous donor, I have been able to add images of most of the Queen Victoria bun penny design variations as given in Peck or Freeman. The images can be seen at
http://www.ukcoinpics.co.uk/pen3.html
while the descriptions are available on
http://www.coins-of-the-uk.co.uk/penny.html

I attach an image of one of these stunning coins

tonyclayton

And here is another!

BC Numismatics

Tony,
  Those are very nice coins.There are some coins in the mid-1870's that have only been studied in the last few years.One coin has been reported as having a die number.

Aidan.

tonyclayton

Quote from: BC Numismatics on November 03, 2008, 12:22:02 AM
Tony,
  Those are very nice coins.There are some coins in the mid-1870's that have only been studied in the last few years.One coin has been reported as having a die number.

Aidan.

You can see one of them illustrated on that website...

I will say that the vast majority of the images are not of my own coins - I can only dream of being able to afford such magnificent items.

Figleaf

#4
Omygosh. That's museum quality. Picking up my jaw from my desk :)

That penny page is the net at its best. The blow-ups are available to anyone anywhere and more accesible than life size coins in an exhibition. Congratulations, Tony.

Peter
An unidentified coin is a piece of metal. An identified coin is a piece of history.

translateltd

Quote from: Galapagos on November 03, 2008, 12:24:37 AM
Nice pics. I remember just occasionally getting very old, worn and darkened bun pennies or ha'pennies in change during the early 1960s, though the older veiled Victoria was more often to be found on these two denominations. My late dad recalled coins of George III circulating in the 1930s.

Likewise, I remember lying on the floor of our house in Newcastle and lining up pennies from five different reigns (the earliest very worn coins of Victoria, probably from the 1860s) as a child in the late 1960s.  It's probable that finding those coins in change helped to spark my interest in both coins and history (and possibly also language, since I spent ages trying to decipher the strings of Latin abbreviations on the obverses!)  Still have a fondness for nice, high-quality bronze as a consequence.

An uncle found an 1819 Geo III sixpence in change (as 2.5 new pence) during the 1970s, which must have been an escapee from someone's collection by that stage.