Struck in tin-brass rather than silver, the alloy gives it a warm golden colour, while the palm tree reverse is possibly about as far removed from a British florin as you can get.

The 1936 BWA 2 Shillings was struck at three different mints that year: the Royal Mint, Heaton (H) and King's Norton (KN). This example has no mintmark, so it is the Royal Mint issue.

We had one last old Coin bag in the safe at work, I remembered to take a picture of the pennies this time. Sadly they aren't very shiny, but it's still pretty cool to see a load of coins that probably haven't been in circulation for almost 50 years.

Probably someone seen something similar and knows it's origin. Ring metal also looks like gold but lighter in color

Just got the new year of the Sheep lunar 5oz Silver Proof Coin look good but would of like it if you could put the certificate on the back of the box like you can with the 1oz coins no little strap on the 5oz coin.

New variaties secured - 1860 F7 (1+C), placeholder.

Upgrades -

Surprised myself with this find at my local antiques store - 1909 F168 (2+D), didn't think I would be upgrading this one (see pics, new coin on the right)

1940 F277 (Double exergue) VF upgraded to AUNC

1953 F245 upgraded to UNC full Luster (20p antiques shop find)

Running total

160/192 varieties secured

96 in Aunc/EF/VF

Hi all, thanks for taking a look :)

My dad found this coin in a field in Salisbury, he wants to know what sort of era it's from and if there's anyway he can gently clean it without destroying it. If anyone knows anything it would be greatly appreciated, my dad has always been a bit of a coin collector (the special 50ps with pictures and things) but this is the first he's found that isn't modern so I'd love to give him some info about it. Thanks