Logged in as: Login
Basket
No products
£ 0.00 Postage £ 0.00 Total
Basket Check out
View coins by...
New coins in stock
» All new coins in stock
Sign up for our Newsletter
Search Tags
Victoria silver high grade George V Penny bronze 1d Scarce Shilling 1/- Florin ¼d aUNC 2/- Farthing lustrous Bun Head 1887 variety Davies copper Young Head 2/6 strong strike lovely grade Elizabeth II George VI Sixpence Halfcrown 1916
Narrow rim low relief larger bust hollow neck Know your varieties yet? If not, why not? There's 5 of them for 1921 shillings...
Although 1887 is the commonest date of the Victoria shillings, there are, of course, three types. And not all of them are common.
What struck me about this coin was the hair and beard detail. You just don't see that much of it in coins of this era. Even in higher grade examples.
Identifying the various Victoria Young Head obverses is tricky stuff, I'll admit, but I'm certain this is the Younger Davies Obv 5, Spink Third Head A6. It's much scarcer than Davies 908. Nice clear die clash on the reverse and some shallow marks on the obverse, but an extremely respectable grade.
I do love the elegance of this design - always have, right since the early days. It's a series you can have real fun with. This is not an easy date to find in aUNC. Not easy at all.
The significantly scarcer Reverse C can be distinguished by the following features: cross on crown points between border beads base of the crown is shallow the line below SHILLING is short Davies suggested that this variety was more than twice as scarce as Obverse D
