Coins from my collection

These are two of my favourite coins from my collection; the Oliver Cromwell shilling, and the Commonwealth shilling from the English civil war period.

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three more from my collection, celtic gold staters of the cunobelin, iceni and corielvetau tribes of southern and eastern england..................

Nice!

I love shillings (being also British). Unfortunately, being skint I have nothing that early - a George III is my best shilling, and that's only woth a few quid. My grandfather had a large collection of Victorian shillings but when he died, about 30 years ago, these mysteriously disappeared, I suspect the 'house clearers' spirited them away before any member of the family could put them aside, which is very sad.

It seems a pity to me that here in the UK dealers don't respect common currency, foreign coins simply being melted down for their scrap metal content, which makes obtaining foreign coins more difficult now even than it was when I was a child.

Matt

Really beautiful, congratulations

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I love shillings (being also British). Unfortunately, being skint I have nothing that early - a George III is my best shilling, and that's only woth a few quid. My grandfather had a large collection of Victorian shillings but when he died, about 30 years ago, these mysteriously disappeared, I suspect the 'house clearers' spirited them away before any member of the family could put them aside, which is very sad.

It seems a pity to me that here in the UK dealers don't respect common currency, foreign coins simply being melted down for their scrap metal content, which makes obtaining foreign coins more difficult now even than it was when I was a child.

Matt

i set out a while ago to try and get an example of every british shilling and i am only missing the edward VI, i agree abot the foriegn coins some of them are astheticly beautiful like the frenach tri-metallic 20 francs mont san michel coin. i suppose though that it's the same the world over people tend to concentrate more on the coins of their own countries than anything else.

john