Coins

Steve · 23 Sep 2009

Anyone recognise any of these?

Assortment found while emptying the charity box at work.

Clearly some are less charitable than they may appear when chucking this stuff in.

The shilling in the background may not be clear, the date on it is 1897.

Any value to any of this stuff? No obvious answers, please (5ptas, a shilling etc)

ColJack · 23 Sep 2009

would have helped if you put them so we could read the values on them and took the pic from straight on not at an angle..

dave.m · 23 Sep 2009

Steve,
I know you are from Donny but surely even you should recognise the 1 Euro on the left. The rest are probably not even worth melting down.

ColJack · 23 Sep 2009

the shilling is worth between £5 and £70 depending on condition..

PrenticeBoyofDerry · 23 Sep 2009

With the way the economy has been going, looking at these coins.
I work out that steve owes me £38.72p

RF Lighting · 23 Sep 2009

The old 50p and the shilling can be exchanged for a modern equivalent at your local post office.

PrenticeBoyofDerry · 23 Sep 2009

the euro will get you the use of a trolley at my local supers

Stivino · 23 Sep 2009

There's a 1 euro coin, worth about £1 nowaday.
A 5 Euro cent coin worth 5p(ish)
An old 50p from 1973 it commemorates the UK's accession to the European Economic Community. It might be worth it's face value.
I can't make any of the others out, a better picture might help.

PrenticeBoyofDerry · 23 Sep 2009

Hungarian magyar I'll chuck that in the forint

Steve · 23 Sep 2009

It was a spur of the moment picture. I know the euro. This was just a selection of coins that are not legal tender in this country, but some tight gits had thrown in the charity bucket.

the 5pta was worth about 2p in its day.

You serious about the shilling coljack?

How would I go about obtaining its value? (Clearly I'd put any gains back into the charity fund)

Rob, whats the modern equivalent of the shilling?

ColJack · 23 Sep 2009

is the shilling silver?
if it is, to clean it place it in a plastic bowl with warm water with a teaspoon of salt dissolved in it and a piece of aluminium foil in the bottom..
the black should dissolve off and onto the alu foil...

http://www.coins-of-the-uk.co.uk/values/onesh.html

gregers · 23 Sep 2009

5p iirc,2 shillings made 10 new pence,the 50p with the hands when legal were worth about 60-70p each(i had a coin book)i collected about 50 quids worth then they ceased so i cashed em in,yeah i know wot a DONUT.
iirc(but i could be wrong here) the 1 you want to find is an old sixpence dated somewhere around the 50s worth a fortune.

ninebob · 24 Sep 2009

Certainly seen the "hands" 50p before - I thought it might be manx (I was born on the I.O.M.) but it's so old my memory might be doing trickery!

WDIK · 24 Sep 2009

so it was you who picked my pocket, you git

namsag · 24 Sep 2009

Ninebob ... The ten bob bit is nothing to do with IOM . hands represent the 9 countries of the EU back in 73

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