Hi all, Walking to work this morning I saw this coin shining in the middle of 28th street and Broadway in Manhattan NYC. I quickly picked it up not being able to tell what it could be. Finally got a chance to look at it during my lunch break. FIVE PENCE - 2016
There was also a 1967 US Quarter about 2 feet away.. Grabbed that coin also. But with a bit of Road Rash
Isn't that a silver fivepence? I have one like that is silver (unless I am mixed up), not sure if they also made them in base metal.
from my 2017 world coin catalog they did make from 2011-2014 in nickel plated steel. 2012 also made in .925 silver. guessing his 2016 is nickel plated steel ? His coin is the center puzzle piece of a shield that becomes the Royal Arms.
Yes - will be Nickel plated steel (test with a magnet if in doubt). One of the standard use UK coins at present and worth just 5p UK (maybe 6 cents!). As mentioned the coins are designed to form a shield pattern when combined:
It doesn't really work if you make them touch. The layout above, which is sealed in the 2008 Royal Mint set, was how they were intended to work. They were certainly a radical design when they came out and even now not everybody approves. By the way, since we moved to the new design of pound coin, the one pound in the set above has been withdrawn, which rather spoils the idea I think.
Fortunately the remaining six denominations still make the "jigsaw puzzle" complete. And the £2 coins look different anyway. Now reducing the size of the 2p significantly, or doing away with the 1p and 2p, that would really spoil the concept ... Neat find, @paddyman98 - and as for silver, well, the earlier and larger 5p coin was the successor to the (pre-decimal) shilling so to say. And that was silver (Ag 925, later Ag 500) until ... 70 years ago. Christian
Those new coins that divide up the coat of arms are sure weird. I wasn't sure what I thought of 'em at first, but they've kind of grown on me. When I visited the UK four years ago and exchanged my money to return to the USA, they wouldn't exchange the smaller denominations back to USD (only the notes and the pound coins), so I took some Brit small change home with me. Fun souvenirs. Quite different from the other Brit pocket change souvenirs that went home in my export pouch. Those were more FIGs than FOGs.
