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UK Coin Pictures - Index Page

This part of the site consists of a comprehensive collection of images of coins from the United Kingdom. Whilst some of the images are of coins in my own collection, many of have been generously donated by wellwishers, numismatic dealers and auctioneers, who are acknowledged on the main image pages.

The images are organised by monarch and denomination, and can be accessed either via the Monarch Index or via the Denomination Index.

To keep the Denomination pages reasonably small, the number of varieties shown for each reign may be relatively limited. The most comprehensive range of images is best found by first selecting the Monarch and then the Denomination.

If you access the page "What's New" you can see what recent additions and major changes have been made to pictures on the site. The version number and date of the present pages are given after each item in the indices below.

Some coins have the Spink catalogue number in the form S.1234.

Monarch Index

1. Early Anglo-Saxon Period v5 21/08/11
2. Kings of East Anglia v1 21/08/11
3. Alfred The Great v1 21/08/11
4. Edward The Elder v7 21/08/11
5. Aethelstan v6 30/11/10
6. Eadred v2 30/11/10
7. Eadgar v6 30/11/10
8. Aethelred II v5 30/11/10
9. Cnut v7 30/11/10
10. Harold I v4 30/11/10
11. Harthacnut v2 30/11/10
12. Edward The Confessor v7 30/11/10
13. Harold II v4 02/12/10
14. William I v7 02/12/10
15. William II v2 02/12/10
16. Henry I v4 02/12/10
17. Stephen v7 02/12/10
18. Henry II v6 02/12/10
19. Richard I v6 02/12/10
20. John v7 02/12/10
21. Henry III v6 02/12/10
22. Edward I v7 02/12/10
23. Edward II v2 02/12/10
24. Edward III v8 02/12/10
25. Richard II v9 02/12/10
26. Henry IV v3 03/11/11
27. Henry V v8 03/12/10
28. Henry VI v7 03/12/10
29. Edward IV v8 03/12/10
30. Edward V (no pictures available; very few coins truly attributable to him)
31. Richard III v7 03/12/10
32. Henry VII v9 03/12/10
33. Henry VIII v11 03/12/10
34. Edward VI v9 03/12/10
35. Mary I (including Philip & Mary) v8 03/12/10
36. Elizabeth I v8 03/12/10
37. James I v11 03/12/10
38. Charles I v12 03/12/10
39. The Commonwealth v10 03/12/10
40. Charles II v10 03/12/10
41. James II v8 03/12/10
42. William and Mary v9 03/12/10
43. William III v9 03/12/10
44. Queen Anne v10 03/12/10
45. George I v11 03/12/10
46. George II v9 03/12/10
47. George III v11 03/12/10
48. George IV v13 03/12/10
49. William IV v10 03/12/10
50. Queen Victoria v10 03/12/10
51. Edward VII v14 03/12/10
52. George V v13 03/12/10
53. Edward VIII v8 03/12/10
54. George VI v13 03/12/10
55. Elizabeth II (Pre-decimal, pre 1971) v14 03/12/10
56. Elizabeth II (Decimal, post 1971) v13 03/12/10

Top of the Monarch Index

Denomination Index

1. Fractional Farthings v14 01/12/10
2. The Farthing v18 01/12/10
3. The Halfpenny v27 01/12/10
4. The Penny
   • One Penny (Silver) v28 03/11/11 (obsolete)
   • One Penny (Silver), prior to 1066 v1 03/11/11
   • One Penny (Silver), after 1066 v1 03/11/11
   • One Penny (Copper 1797-1860) v13 01/12/10
   • The Bronze Penny 1860-1901 v11 01/12/10
   • The Bronze Penny 1902-1936 v9 08/07/11
   • The Bronze Penny 1937-1970 v11 01/12/10
5. The Penny-Halfpenny v9 01/12/10
6. The Two Pence v15 01/12/10
7. The Three Pence v15 01/12/10
8. The Four Pence or Groat v26 03/11/11
9. The Sixpence
   • The Sixpence 1551-1800 v19 01/12/10
   • The Sixpence 1800-1970 v12 01/12/10
10. The Shilling
    • The Shilling 1502-1800 v24 01/12/10
    • The Shilling 1800-1970 v10 03/10/11
11. 18 and 20 Pence v11 01/12/10
12. The Florin, or Two Shillings v17 01/12/10
13. Thirty Pence - Half Crown v34 01/12/10
14. Three Shillings, 40d and 45d v11 01/12/10
15. Four Shillings (Double Florin) v6 01/12/10
16. Five Shillings or Crown
    • Five Shillings 1461-1837 v25 01/12/10
    • Five Shillings 1837-1901 v9 01/12/10
    • Five Shillings 1902-1965 v13 01/12/10
17. Quarter Guinea v9 02/12/10
18. 6s & 6/8 (Double Leopard, Angel and Noble) v18 02/12/10
19. Third Guinea v7 02/12/10
20. Ten Shillings or Half Sovereigns v17 02/12/10
21. Half Guineas v11 02/12/10
22. Fifteen Shillings (Ryal) v4 25/12/10
23. One Pound (Unite, Guinea or Sovereign) v20 02/12/10
    • One Pound (1461-1659) v20 02/12/10
    • One Pound or Guinea (1660-1813) v1 02/12/10
    • One Pound or Sovereign (1817-) v1 02/12/10
24. Thirty Shillings (Fine Sovereign & Rose Ryal) v6 02/12/10
25. Two Pound (Two Guineas or Double Sovereign) v9 02/12/10
26. Fifty Shillings or Sixty Shillings v6 02/12/10
27. Five Pounds (Five Guineas or Five Pounds) v9 02/12/10
28. Pre-Decimal Proof Sets v5 02/12/10
29. Decimal Coins
    • The Decimal Half Penny v9 02/12/10
    • The Decimal Penny v11 02/12/10
    • The Decimal Two Pence v12 02/12/10
    • The Decimal Five Pence v11 02/12/10
    • The Decimal Ten Pence v11 02/12/10
    • The Decimal Twenty Pence v9 02/12/10
    • The Decimal Fifty Pence v21 28/01/12
    • The Decimal One Pound v11 11/01/11
    • The Decimal Two Pounds v17 11/01/11
    • The Decimal Crowns - 25p and Five Pounds v15 11/01/11
    • Post-1971 Gold and Silver Bullion Coins v5 02/12/10
    • Decimal Mint Proof and Uncirculated Sets v7 11/01/11
30. Coin Weights v4 02/12/10

Top of the Denomination Index

Relevant Links

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Acknowledgements

I am most grateful to so many kind people for the generous donation of pictures with permission to use them on this site, in particular the two Auction Houses, Spink and Jean Elsen et Ses Fils S.A., and also the dealer AMR Coins. It is invidious to pick out particular individuals, from so many, but I must thank Martin Platt for his images which are of the highest quality, as indeed are his coins themselves.

If you have a good quality scan of a coin that is not on this site (or a better picture of one that is), and you would like to see it published here, do please let me know using my my Advice page.

Due acknowledgement of any pictures I use will be given if required.

I would like to thank The Ten O'Clock Show Limited for their generous sponsorship of my websites.

Help and Advice

I would be grateful if you could search the site carefully before mailing me - the answers to the great majority of the questions that I am asked can be found on this site, and I am unlikely to reply quickly to such questions. In particular, I do NOT provide a valuation service.

If you have done this and still wish to ask for advice, feel free to mail me via my Advice page but please do not send me unsolicited scans or other binary files.