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silver Victoria 1/- high grade Shilling George V 6d Scarce Sixpence Young Head Halfcrown 2/6 Penny Rare Farthing bronze 1887 George III ¼d Edward VII copper variety 1d aUNC Crown Threepence 2/- 5/- 3d Florin
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Not the easiest date to fill in the endlessly interesting early milled shilling series. Good edge, strong and even strike and clear fields. I think this is a particularly nice one.
The Block lettering variety of this date is generally reckoned to be about twice as scarce as the commoner Script lettering type. Start building up a good selection in this area and you really feel like you're getting somewhere with coin collecting. Give it a try and see how it makes you feel!
It's rather nice to think of Crowns actually being spent in day-to-day transactions. For me, that's what makes them so much more collectable than modern commemorative tat. Imagine what one of these must have felt like in your pocket.
A few bumps on the reverse rim, but this is a Rare coin. The obverse is particularly well preserved, which enables the positive identification of Freeman Obverse 6 (Gouby Obv J). The closeup I have provided is centred on the die flaw between the upper colon dot and the linear circle after D: of F:D: In Freeman's words, "a feature peculiar to Obverse 6"
Strictly speaking a die flaw rather than a bona fide variety, but these have been listed for as long as I can remember. 1888 is the trickiest date in this tiny series, and the die flaw type is catalogued at R2 in ESC. That's rare by anyone's standards.
GradeVery Fine
GradeVery Fine
