Coins for collectors - Circulated 1900 British Queen Victoria One Penny Coin / Great Britain

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A coin with a Mint error will command a premium too. How much that is depends on how rare and dramatic the error is. What year is the rarest Indian Head penny? When the British press encountered the new colour for the first time comments ranged from amused surprise to charges of pandering to Irish Nationalists and the green flag around which they rallied. Protest shortly gave way to acceptance until a rumour swept the country that the chemicals used to manufacture the printing ink contained lead. The earliest Indian Head pennies hadn’t included the shield, and the leaves of the wreath had been laurel instead. The change was made in 1860, at the same time as details on the obverse were changed.

The obverse of George IV's pennies shows a left-facing laureated head engraved by William Wyon. This was the second portrait of George IV, and was adopted after the King expressed a dislike for the one engraved by Benedetto Pistrucci, which was never used on the penny. The penny is inscribed GEORGIUS IV DEI GRATIA [g] and the date, while the reverse shows a right-facing seated Britannia with a shield and trident, inscribed BRITANNIAR REX FID DEF. [h] The penny at this time weighed 18.8grams and had a diameter of 34 millimetres, the same as Boulton's 1806–1807 pennies. [18]Rodgers, Kerry (December 2016). "Fiji's World War II Emergency Reserve Bank of New Zealand Overprints". Coin News: 75–79. SIGN UP TO THE FREE NEWSLETTER TODAYand we'll send you news, views and stamp guides direct to your inbox. It's completely free and we'll never share your data with anyone else.

Doty, Richard (1998). The Soho Mint & the Industrialization of Money. London: National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution. ISBN 978-1-902040-03-5. Georgius VI Dei Gratia Britanniarum Omnium Rex Fidei Defensor, or "George VI by the Grace of God King of All the Britains, Defender of the Faith" Georgius II Dei Gratia/Magnae Britanniae Franciae et Hiberniae Rex, or George II by the Grace of God/King of Great Britain, France and Ireland We’re going to look at one specific mintage: the 1900 Indian Head penny value. We’ll investigate its history and design. And we’ll explore the difference that condition makes to how much an individual coin is worth. Elizabeth II Dei Gratia Britanniarum Omnium Regina Fidei Defensor, or "Elizabeth II by the Grace of God Queen of All the Britains, Defender of the Faith"

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Georgius VI Dei Gratia Britanniarum Omnium Rex Fidei Defensor et Indiae Imperator, or "George VI by the Grace of God King of All the Britains, Defender of the Faith and Emperor of India"

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Although the 2000 edition of the Coincraft catalogue of British coins says the wartime pause was due to a surplus of pennies, [28] numismatist Kerry Rodgers, in his 2016 article on the currency emergency in Fiji during the Second World War, cited a colonial legislative record to the effect that it was to conserve copper for munitions. [30] Beginning with the 1942 production of 1940-dated pennies, the composition was altered, as tin was a critical war material, rare because most of it came from Malaya, so pennies from then until later in 1945 are 97 percent copper, 0.5 percent tin, and 2.5 percent zinc. Such coins tarnish to a colour different than the prewar coins, and they were treated with sodium thiosulphate to give them a darker tone. [28] [31] That substance, dubbed "hypo", had been used to darken all 1934 pennies before issue and most of the 1935 mintage, [32] "Hypo" would be used again in 1946, discolouring the coins to discourage the hoarding of new pennies. [33] Although the prewar alloy was restored in 1945, the Mint reversed itself in 1959, made pennies out of that wartime composition for the remainder of the coin's pre-decimal history without chemical treatment, and continued its use for the new decimal bronze pieces. [28] [31] The third variety is certified only by the NGC, but is perhaps the clearest of all. You can see the original “9” to the left and bottom of the final one. And the lower part of the original first “0” is visible at the bottom of that digit.