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Victoria silver bronze high grade Penny 1d George V copper Halfpenny Scarce ½d Bun Head Sixpence 6d Freeman ¼d lustrous Farthing Rare 2/6 William IV Halfcrown aUNC Gouby Shilling lovely grade 1902 1887 George VI 1/-
Although minted with the Colonies in mind, these did circulate in Great Britain, but not for long. Even in 1844 there wasn't much you could buy for 1/1920th of a Pound. This one has a slight titled E in REG, for those who like their microvarieties. I know I do.
Issued for Malta as their "grano" was 3 to a farthing. Allow me to demonstrate the elegance of predecimal maths: there's 3 of these to a farthing, so 12 to a penny. Thus, there's 144 to a shilling, and 2,880 to the pound. 288,000 were minted = £100
A high level of detail and a very pleasant lustre. Nice.
Like a fool, I started this series filling dates, so it took me about half a dozen upgrades to get them this far. Should have gone straight in at this level, really. No reason not to.
You can identify Reverse A by the single incuse line on the saltire (St. Andrew's Cross on the shield). The line is raised on Rev B.
You can identify Reverse B by the raised line on the saltire (St. Andrew's Cross on the shield). The line is incuse on the commoner Rev A.
It's an excellent time to get this area of your collection sorted. This is not the Roman I for 1 variety, even though it might look a bit like it. Trust me, I'd know!
