HALF PENNY: 27 mm diameter PENNY: 34 mm diameter The coin in our picture is a special coin. It is aproofversion produced only for collectors and never circulated. It sold for 420 British pounds (close to $700 US dollars) during a 2014 auction bySpink. Just about all IOM pennies and ...
If you’re unfamiliar, a planchet is the blank metal disc that gets stamped to become a coin. The British halfpennies had the same size, metal composition, and melt value as Canadian pennies, so they made sense as a base. Later, coins got smaller to match American pennies. Year: 1969 ...
1971 pennies with an S mint mark were produced in San Francisco. San Francisco produced fewer pennies for circulation in 1971 than the facilities in Denver or Philadelphia. But it still struck over half a billion coins that year – so they’re not rare. Whatwouldmake a 1971-S penny rare ...
If you’re thinking of selling a coin collection or want to obtain a rare coin valuation, our trustworthy team have the knowledge and experience you can rely on. Our coin specialists regularly handle and value a range of items – including: Farthings – quarters, thirds, half Pennies – half...
If there is a correction, we’ll be looking at buyingGMin the middle of it. It’s great stock, debt reduced, lean and mean, with the government exiting its share, and it’s already selling for about half of its fair market value. We think there might be some further discount with th...
If a mile is ‘worth’ 2 cents you should be equally happy with a mile or two pennies, if you’re offered a mile at a price of 1.9 cents you would be a buyer — you’d consider yourself to be earning a 5% margin. Put another way, when we put a charge on a cred...
Straits Settlements is a former British Crown colony on Asia's Malay Penninsula. Coins in 5, 10, 20, and 50 cent denominations all show the reigning British monarch (Victoria, Edward, George) on one side, and an encircled denomination on the other. These coins are made of silver. ...
Stigler. The book itself has long been out of print, but excerpts from it were included in a collection of writings titled Rent Control: Costs & Consequences, edited by Robert Albon. This particular statement occurs on page 16. The fact that nearly half the rent-controlled apartments in San...
Such techniques spread by way of Byzantium to northern Europe, where the emperor Charlemagne struck thin flan deniers (small silver coins), or pennies, which became characteristic of both his own and neighbouring kingdoms. The Franks and Saxons inherited an art that was formalistic rather than ...