can you help me with these coins?

[butkovsky-migration]

as you will see, i am new to the board, but i am hoping someone can help me identify these coins, give me any history, information, anything, and give me even the slighest clue to, if any, of their value.

 

these are my first coin scans, so please understand if they are of questionable quality.

 

 

 

thank you in advance for any insight

 

[JamminJ]

Hi butkovsky!

 

Welcome to the forum!

 

The first coin is a 1921 Florin issued by Great Britian. A floring is two shillings which is the same as a tenth of a pound or 24 pence (gotta love the pre decimal coins!) Its composition is silver (0.500 fine) and contains .182 ounces of silver minus wear. 34.8 million of these coins were made, and they are valued as:

 

$2.00 in Fine

$3.50 in Very Fine

$20.00 in Extremely Fine

$45.00 Uncirculated

 

I'm sorry to say your coins looks worn enough that the fine number is probably approprite.

 

The second one shows up just as a black blob, so can't help you there.

 

-JamminJ

 

Edited to correct coposition, oops!

[butkovsky-migration]

thank you, given their wear, i didn't expect them to have much value, but i appreciate the information you gave me...especially the english denomination lesson. why would they ever devise such a system is beyond me.

 

thanks again

[JamminJ]

Hi again,

 

Glad I could help. Posts on the world coin forum here are few and far between, so I'm always happy to see new ones.

 

According to the book Sterling by Nicholas Mayhew the earliest reference to a pound of silver as a unit of money occured in the 11th century, although the division into subunits of 20 and 240 goes back to the 8th century and Charlemagne. It wasn't until the mid 14th century that the values of a pound of silver and a pound of money diverged.

 

Note that I made a mistake on the composition of you coin (didn't read far enough down in my catalog), they reduced the silver content from sterling (0.925) to 0.500 beginning in 1920. Most likely due to the stress of the war.

 

Are you interested in world coins or did you just come across a few?

 

-JamminJ

 

 

[Wihlborg]

butkovsky,

 

Your second coin is a large one penny coin also issued by Great Britain. Unfortunately I am not at home to check my catalog so I can't help you with an exact amount it may be worth, but I don't think 1902 is a rare date so from the condition I don't think it would be much.

 

John

 

[butkovsky-migration]

Are you interested in world coins or did you just come across a few?

 

-JamminJ

 

jamminj,

 

it is really kind of strange to tell you the truth, when i was younger, pre-10 (now in final year of college) or so, i was always 'collecting coins,' hoarding change, what have you, having my parents/grandparents/etc... give me coins as gifts (more or less where i got most of my non-mint issues - which isn't a lot). since then, they have just been sitting in my safe. i hadn't even thought of it, and i don't know why. i have been getting mint proof sets, quarter sets, silver liberty, and some random things here and there for the past decade, but never went and looked at the coins from my youth. these were some of them. suddenly found myself interested again. i think there is a lot of allure in world coins, at least to me. while us coins have some meaning, given that is where i am from, simply the fact that world coins have more history interests me. while i would have liked if they had some value, it was great to hear anything you could tell me.

 

thanks again

[Hoot]

See the Attachment for a re-do on the image of the second coin. It's not great, but it's at least identiffiable.

 

Hoot