97 on the rarity index too. The bigger the number, the rarer the coin is which is fucking impressive. Only one known example is listed on ebay for $488 USD. Call me optimistic but I think the CWC silver rounds qualify as a Relic of Win.
The 18th century cartwheel pennies were even bigger, not so in circumference, but sheer weight. Nice mix of coins.
I find it hilarious that the British public looked at decimal coinage the same way we look at pre decimal coinage. It's kind of baffling that they had such a hard time, it's literally just percentage. I suppose the hardest thing for them to understand was how the economy would be affected.
2s 6d as obviously it was. Tiredness.
British coins abandoned use of any precious metal in c. the late 30s, but countries used silver to some degree in the larger coins. I've a few 1960s Dutch coins that have a degree of silver. Hungary had endured a record breaking hyper inflation after WWI, so there was a need to inspire confidence in the currency.
Love the Bull Head design. Gonna work on those when I finish my Victoria countries set.
That makes their post WW2 hyperinflation even more brutal.
1946 is the cutoff year for the Sixpence and I have a couple of them from the last year they were made with silver. As for the other denominations, no idea.
oh my, does @Null know about this?!
As a former /pmg/fag I can personally attest that the Aputannia and the CWC round were listed on numsista in 2021. At some point, probably around the bog coin or boomer coin, I wanted to compare the runs and the CWC round and couldn't find it on Numista anymore. I checked for it every so often since then, including late 2024 and didn't see it listed.
They're just the raw materials once the penny gets discontinued and smelting them becomes legal. Those don't bear the likeness of our Blue Heart CPU goddess and herald of the Dimensional Merge though.
If you live near areas with many old people and meth addicts you will see wheaties enter the local flow of change when crackhead grandkids steal granddad's penny jug and 1-by-1 them into gas stations for smokes or bring them into the bank in rolls. Higher income areas just coinstar them when granddad dies and those get filtered by them to be sold at a premium.
With merry old England's currency changing completely in '71, the only chance you have of finding silver coins is if someone has broken them out of sets - I remember youtuber Christopher Collects finding a non-circulation Jane Austen £2 in one of his hunts - so to still be able to find them (however rarely) in your change is pretty exciting.
Thats far newer compared to when we got rid of silver in our metals, as well as canada. Our decomission was in '65 and canada was '68. You can barely find any silver coins unless you stumble upon someones old coin drawer, but for some reason canada is far wierder. For some reason if I find a canadian quarter, nickel, or dime, there seems to be around a 25% chance its makeup is silver. Maybe their machines don't detect metal makeup? Idk.
