Superstitious?

mark

mark

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Now here's a wee dilemma I need to resolve..... I found a penny down in the bilges, dated 1937 - when boat was built, guessing it was put there for luck. So I cleaned it and shove it back whence it came

It has just been pointed out to me that it could be worth shed loads of money. All down to the sexual pecadillos of Eddie the 8. Loads of pennies were minted with his nappa on, but he jacked it in before they released them, although some are known to have gone out - mainly to go in foundations of buildings AND (critically) to shipyards for new builds......

so they scrapped the ones they had and made new ones with georgie 6 on instead, and these went into general circulation

Need to get down there and have a look at the fella first... but what if its got eddie on and is worth thousands?? would you whip it oot, flog it and be done, or leave it be and not risk invoking the wrath of the sea faeries making the netty backfire or something??

what would you do??

its been a reasonable talisman for her so far










This could all of course be an eleborate ruse to get someone to break in the boat and clean the bilges for us in order to find it
 
Check it out and if it is worth a fortune make amends to the Sea Gods in another ritual of sorts (they'll understand surely - after all you've rejuvenated the venerable Lady)...I am susperstitious about these things (touch wood;))
 
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Mark I'm well up on these things being a fishing metal detector head so I've looked through my most up to date literature (Seaby Standard Catalogue of British Coins........1987 - though the 2nd Edition) and it says.............."not issued" which to me, if it's genuine, makes it worth more than its face value.......maybe a lot more. Dilema is the superstition card - wouldn't worry me if it paid the mooring fees and fuel for a few years but there again I will only be waving you off,metaphorically most times. Still a nice coin to have, wherever you decide to put it.
 
The Great Wallsendo said:
marine superstitions and nautical myths

is the coin silver?
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A stone thrown over a vessel that is putting out to sea ensures she will never return
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oh oh, does scrap metal count :o:D

maybe that one was cancelled out by
Swallows seen at sea are a good sign
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Mark - at 1984 prices an Edward V111 shilling went for 12 grand and a sixpence went for 9.5 thousand........the pension funds looking up again.










Where's Ell???????
 
What you still doing sitting in the house, I wouldn't be able to help myself but run down there and have a look.

Fingers crossed though!
 
hardly gave the other side a second glance, the only pennies I knew to be worth owt were the 1933 ones.

showed wor lass it as it happens, but as soon the word 'boat' was mentioned she sort of glazed over......

If I now tell her it could be worth several 10's of thousands (according to google) she'll either think the boat's the best thing I've ever bought all of a sudden (unlikely), fall to her kness look up with a twinkle in her eye and profess undying love (more unlikely) or be on the phone to the solicitor in the morning (probable!)
 
might help.....

Edward VIII

In common with other denominations, an Edward VIII penny was produced dated 1937, but none were issued as it is the custom to await the Coronation, and he abdicated first. The reverse design was modified and once again showed a lighthouse. At least five proof copies are known to exist; two of these are in private hands.

Bit about the lighthouse.....

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Yours....

Get down there.......

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Just been told you cant get moved for people down at st peters basin looking for a boat called Pansy, there all wearing tiga headlights and sporting NESA badges.....seriously though that would be one hell of a find....good luck
 
one quote from a website

Edward VIII has become an enigma to modern history. So are his coins.


mark i do hope this is one of them - good luck.

if it is i feel there may be an Only Fools and Horses Auction Moment coming shortly.

as for superstition - if it pays for the restoration go for it.

jason
 
just to wet your appetite here is a report on the australian equivalent

1937 Pattern Penny

Known as ‘Australia’s rarest penny’, the 1937 Pattern Penny is one of the nation’s most important coins. It was struck at the Royal Mint in London as part of the Great Recoinage – a complete revision of Australia’s currency originally planned for the first coinage issue of Edward VIII, who abdicated in 1936. Known by just ten examples, and valued in 1992 at $55,000, this high-profile rarity would now command a price of more than $250,000.



wow.
 
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