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Wow, what a fantastic find! Stunning hammered coin, Gratz, sir !

-Bill P

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Beauty, Andy!  You seem to be an enthusiastic, motivated person by nature and I bet this really gets you're detecting blood flowing. ?

Next up, gold coin?

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On 9/6/2018 at 3:31 AM, sillllvar said:

That's lovely for a first Hammered, It could be a hammered silver Penny of Henry VI 1440's. I mean it could be a half penny rather than a penny (looks clipped) but it's hard to say from here. There are some really talented identifiers of these things ( I'm not one lol) but I think the coin is stylistic of the 1400's. I have the spink coins of England to guide me lol

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Spot on with your identification for Andy's Hammered Silver it is a Henry VI annulet issue halfpenny of London Mint. Henry VI, 1st reign 1422 - 1430. On the reverse Long cross pattée with three pellets in each angle, annulet in two angles (Dimples).

 

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Andy's Hammered Silver it is a Henry VI annulet issue halfpenny of London Mint. Henry VI, 1st reign 1422 - 1430

I've just had kittens!  OMFG ? Thanks for that, made my year.

Thanks everyone for your kind words, feels good.

 

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2 hours ago, Randy Dee said:

Spot on with your identification for Andy's Hammered Silver it is a Henry VI annulet issue halfpenny of London Mint. Henry VI, 1st reign 1422 - 1430. On the reverse Long cross pattée with three pellets in each angle, annulet in two angles (Dimples).

 

Awesome mate! It's nice to have a the date nailed down. Cracking first Hammy! I sure do miss finding those beauties in the soil. It's an unbelievable feeling to reach down and lift a medieval coin from the earth and see a king/Queen looking back at you ?

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Hello again Randy,

Just a quick one if i may.

In those days when my coin was in circulation, what would the equivalent value be of that coin today?

So what im asking is ..... Would the chap/chap'ess be grieved about the loss?  Would it have been a big loss, say like us today losing a 10 pound note or ???    I'm just trying to understand what the loss would of meant to our historic brothers, and will lead me to understand if there may be more out there etc.

Side note:  Have to say, i'm very impressed and appreciative of your input over the last few days (on this topic and others) .... and that gold coin of yours!!  WOOOW, just wow.

I defer yet again to your expertise.

 

Thanking you kindly and i promise this is the last question (for this week at least ?)

 

Cheers!

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47 minutes ago, Andy2640 said:

Hello again Randy,

Just a quick one if i may.

In those days when my coin was in circulation, what would the equivalent value be of that coin today?

So what im asking is ..... Would the chap/chap'ess be grieved about the loss?  Would it have been a big loss, say like us today losing a 10 pound note or ???    I'm just trying to understand what the loss would of meant to our historic brothers, and will lead me to understand if there may be more out there etc.

Side note:  Have to say, i'm very impressed and appreciative of your input over the last few days (on this topic and others) .... and that gold coin of yours!!  WOOOW, just wow.

I defer yet again to your expertise.

 

Thanking you kindly and i promise this is the last question (for this week at least ?)

 

Cheers!

* Here below in bold red print is the nearest conversion which I can find to form an equivalent  valuation of the buying power of your coin but bare in mind that this information data is not of 2018 but from 2007 so there will be a slight difference in the current equivalent valuation meaning more buying power of your coin.  *

 

 

Purchasing Power of £1 compared to 2007 values
Figures supplied by:
Lawrence H. Officer, "Purchasing Power of British Pounds from 1264 to 2007," Measuring Worth, 2008.
URL http://www.measuringworth.com/ppoweruk/.
Year RPI Average Earnings Comments
  Use for "buying a loaf of
bread" type of questions
Use for how "affordable"
this would be to the average
person type questions
 
1275 £355.39 £11,822.40  
1300 £390.93 £10,010.23 Great Famine 1315-1322
1325 £303.93 £7,865.52  
1350 £430.26 £6,987.23 Black Death 1348/9
1375 £304.03 £5,067.60 Peasants Revolt 1381
1400 £400.78 £5,283.69  
1425 £472.29 £4,958.07 ********     240 Pennies to the pound ( £ )    *********
1450 £520.14 £5,246.55 Wars of the Roses 1455
1475 £549.74 £4,755.63 Plague 1498
1500 £501.55 £4,755.63  
1525 £466.79 £4,755.63 Reformation 1534
1550 £243.02 £3,780.97  
1575 £184.16 £2,441.86 First Treaty of Nonsuch 1585 / London Plague 1592–1594
1600 £141.16 £1,947.48 Gunpowder Plot 1605
1625 £138.24 £1,776.22  
1650 £87.99 £1,533.37 Plague 1665 / Fire of London 1666
1675 £125.66 £1,449.82  
1700 £130.43 £1,604.57 Bank of England Formed 1694
1725 £123.10 £1,572.26 South Sea Bubble 1720
1750 £138.67 £1,445.15  
1775 £97.63 £1,312.79 First cotton mill 1771
1800 £52.03 £769.62 Corn Laws 1815
1825 £66.59 £776.42 Railway Age starts 1825 / Met Police Formed 1829
1836 £75.52 £784.33 Cholera 1832 / Epsom's New Work House started 1836
1850 £82.37 £746.30 Penny Post starts 1840 / Irish potato famine 1845
1875 £67.55 £502.61  
1900 £77.58 £421.01  
1914 £68.80 £360.15 WW1 Starts
1918 £34.91 £172.39 WW1 Ends / Flu Pandemic
1925 £40.88 £181.88  
1939 £44.44 £169.89 WW2 Starts
1945 £30.93 £97.90 WW2 Ends
1950 £24.69 £73.23  
1975 £6.04 £9.51  
2000 £1.21 £1.31  
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