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Started by gerard974, March 06, 2017, 02:57:00 PM

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gerard974

Hello
yesterday i have find on second hand market for 5 euros this penny,what do you think ?
best regards  Gerard
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Figleaf

Undoubtedly genuine and a bargain at €5. I wonder how it got in Réunion. The most likely theory is that it came along with the British army when Réunion was occupied during the wars of Napoléon. That could mean that it has been in the hands of a local family for some 10 generations ...

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

FosseWay

Nice - a better than average example. In my experience the pennies wear worse than the twopences.

I like Peter's idea of it having been in one family's possession since Napoleon, though at the same time that is slightly sad given that the family heirloom ended up at a second hand market rather than being passed on further. But a more prosaic possibility is that a collector has ordered or brought in a bulk lot from Europe and then sold what he doesn't want.

I tend to fill up one of those cardboard tubes that bottles of whisky come in with kiloware that I feel I'm unlikely to be able to swap with anyone, and then when it feels like the bottom is going to give way I take it to the charity shop. If I've got a lot of Swedish scrap, especially tokens and low-quality older coppers, I make a point of taking the donation to a UK charity shop in order to spread Swedish tokens around a bit! I like to think that there is someone who's bought a lot of kiloware off eBay in the UK and found a bunch of weird tokens and then got interested in them.  ;D

andyg

Quote from: FosseWay on March 06, 2017, 09:31:31 PM
I make a point of taking the donation to a UK charity shop

It tends to be sold straight to dealers for a pittance to be sorted then sold on again :-\
always willing to trade modern UK coins for modern coins from elsewhere....

andyg

Quote from: gerard974 on March 06, 2017, 02:57:00 PM
Hello
yesterday i have find on second hand market for 5 euros this penny,what do you think ?

A really good price for one of these in that condition - £20 on ebay for one similar.
always willing to trade modern UK coins for modern coins from elsewhere....

gerard974

Hello
thank you very much for your interest
best regards  Gerard

mrbadexample

It is the more common 10-leaf variety (there is another with 11 leaves in George's wreath) and has probably been cleaned at some point.

That said, it's not too badly worn and has very nice edges which is unusual for a coin of this weight. Well worth what you paid Gerard. :)