THE COIN COLLECTOR - World eBook Library

THE COIN MARKET
seventh year of Charles, also struck for Bombay, which
cost the writer £3. 15s. Od.
The tin and pewter money (pice and double pice) of
Charles II. and George II., for the same Presidency, are
not expensive, but rarely occur in tolerable preservation ;
they are relatively worth from 10s. to 30s.
Some very interesting copper coins of the cash de-
nomination and of native fabric, with the elephant on
obverse, may be very occasionally procured in good
state at a low price.
The acquisition of the British Colonial series, outside
that of India and the other regions above mentioned,
is not calculated to entail a very heavy cost, unless the
purchaser determines to include rare patterns and
varieties of type or metal. Take such pieces as the
gold 4-gulden of George II. for Hanover, an acknow-
ledged rarity—it may ascend to £3 ; or the 3-guilders of
George III., 1809, for British Guiana—its commercial
value lies between 30s. and 40s. A thousand coins,
one with another, would not exceed i?200.
Taking the 129 representative illustrations of the
present little volume, of which the cost is unfortunately
too well within the personal knowledge of the writer,
let us tabulate them on a commercial basis :
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