Valuations

All in all, this is one of the best pennies of its type I have seen as a detecting find

Stephen Tate said he found this coin on a beach in East Sussex. It’s a highly unusual beach find, as will become clear when I provide a detailed description.

Up to 1860 the penny and its fractions were made of copper. From 1860 onwards the penny and its fraction were made of bronze. For me there is a great mystery attached to this changeover.

Lots of Victorian sixpences and shillings turn up as detecting finds but not many halfcrowns.

On the face is a crouching creature, which stands out well from the gilded background

Steve has been very lucky to find this coin, for it is a denarius of Otho

Several different busts appear on Edward VI profile shilling and most are very similar to each other, so they can cause much confusion.

This shilling has mint mark bow on both sides and is undated.

This shilling was struck during the third period of debasement and contains only about one quarter the amount of silver that it should do.

The groat was struck during the first reign of Edward IV, which lasted from 1461 to October of 1470.