Victorian coin.
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grumpy52

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6,062 posts

195 months

Wednesday 9th September
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Shaking my wallet out and an 1888 Queen Victoria Canadian 5 cent coin fell out . I have no clue how it got there . A quick Google shows values between £20 -£140 . The last person in the family that went to Canada was my grandfather in the 1920s .

grumpy52

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6,062 posts

195 months

Wednesday 9th September
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Magic919

14,493 posts

230 months

Thursday 10th September
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Good to see you used a camera of the period.

soad

34,652 posts

205 months

Thursday 10th September
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Magic919 said:
Good to see you used a camera of the period.
hehe

Fusion777

2,624 posts

77 months

Thursday 10th September
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Trump wants a 20% cut.

croyde

26,351 posts

259 months

Thursday 10th September
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soad said:
Magic919 said:
Good to see you used a camera of the period.
hehe
Genuine LOL at breakfast, thanks biggrin

Tam_Mullen

2,795 posts

201 months

Thursday 10th September
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If its really in as poor a condition as the photos show (heavily worn and the detail difficult to make out) even the bottom end of that bracket is hopeful IMO.

grumpy52

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195 months

Thursday 10th September
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Tam_Mullen said:
If its really in as poor a condition as the photos show (heavily worn and the detail difficult to make out) even the bottom end of that bracket is hopeful IMO.
It is pretty worn but it's 138 years old !
It will go in the box of family memories, along with WW1 medals and photos ,dog tags ,dads medals and military papers.

NDA

25,619 posts

254 months

Thursday 10th September
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I have Roman coins in better condition. smile

croyde

26,351 posts

259 months

Thursday 10th September
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Back when we had the old money I found a penny coin in my change that was a 1799 George III.

Excited, I took it to a coin place in London.

It's worth a penny he said biggrin

wolfracesonic

9,207 posts

156 months

Thursday 10th September
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NDA said:
I have Roman coins in better condition. smile
I have Roman cameras that take a better picture…

Landlubber

1,436 posts

78 months

Thursday 10th September
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wolfracesonic said:
NDA said:
I have Roman coins in better condition. smile
I have Roman cameras that take a better picture
I have






Nothing.

Tam_Mullen

2,795 posts

201 months

Thursday 10th September
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grumpy52 said:
It is pretty worn but it's 138 years old !
It will go in the box of family memories, along with WW1 medals and photos ,dog tags ,dads medals and military papers.
I wasn't decrying it, your post references values as if you were looking to sell.

I have some £20 notes from the 60s and the value of those varies massively from a clean one, to one have has a crease in the middle for example.

TheJimi

27,693 posts

272 months

Thursday 10th September
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Those photos rofl


some bloke

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96 months

Thursday 10th September
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I have a Queen Vic shilling dated 1837. It ended up in dad's pharmacy till in NZ in the late 60s so he grabbed it. Someone carved their initials into it in 1935.

True story.

vikingaero

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198 months

Thursday 10th September
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I had one of the first mainstream camera phones on a Sharp ZV1(?) flip phone in 2002ish and the pictures were better than the OP's biggrin

Super Sonic

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83 months

Thursday 10th September
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My granddaughter is six and the pictures she draws are better than the op's

Blib

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226 months

Thursday 10th September
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I've cleaned this image up, OP.


SAB888

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236 months

Thursday 10th September
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Blib said:


I've cleaned this image up, OP.

Audi looks good for 1888.

some bloke

1,704 posts

96 months

Thursday 10th September
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some bloke said:
I have a Queen Vic shilling dated 1837. It ended up in dad's pharmacy till in NZ in the late 60s so he grabbed it. Someone carved their initials into it in 1935.

True story.

Here's that coin mentioned above