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VICTORIA D:G: BRITT: REG: F:D:
When I was a kid there were still coins in circulation that had Queen Victoria's head on them. Also the heads of every monarch since. You reached in your pocket and out came a handful of history. Victoria, Edward, George, George, Elizabeth. The changeover to decimal currency put an end to that. Now everything in circulation is Elizabethan.
Among the things that came out of the boxes in the garage was a purse full of pre-decimal -loose change that my grandmother had stashed away. It has all the heads- going back to a middle-aged Victoria. There are pennies, halfpennies, farthings. The farthings wear best- and I've selected a couple out for keeping- because they're pretty. The rest are off to the charity shop. None of them is worth anything but loose change; I checked.
Victorian Farthing, 1878
Among the things that came out of the boxes in the garage was a purse full of pre-decimal -loose change that my grandmother had stashed away. It has all the heads- going back to a middle-aged Victoria. There are pennies, halfpennies, farthings. The farthings wear best- and I've selected a couple out for keeping- because they're pretty. The rest are off to the charity shop. None of them is worth anything but loose change; I checked.
Victorian Farthing, 1878
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That's really cool.
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She liked her grub did the old Queen.
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The artist has done his best to disguise the double chin but it's still there.
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One of the things I hope survived my brother's theft of, and sale of most of, my dad's coin collection, was the coins from the 1880s and 1890s that he got in change as a small boy in the late 1920s and early 1930s, when he first began to collect coins. They haven't much resale value --- they're, shall we say, thoroughly circulated --- but they have enormous sentimental value.
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