> > I have some English pennies in my collection that are about the size of a US half dollar. They are thin and made of copper. I think they have King George IV on the front. What would that be? Pre-1928 or so? I'd go look, but my collection is in Tennessee and I'm in Georgia right now.
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> Well, George IV reigned from 1810 - 1820, so they would almost certainly have been minted then. He was Prince Regent from 1811 - 1820 while his father (George III) was suffering from porphyria. But coins from this period wouldn't have had his face on them.
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> Pennies were that size from the 15th Century until 1971.

Hmmmmm. Maybe I have my Roman numerals mixed up.
The king on my pennies had a beard and the coins were from the 1900 - 1930 time frame. I was thinking that George V never had a beard. Could that be George VI?

I don't ever have any trouble with Elizabeth II. She became queen the same year I was a senior in high school, and she never had a beard either.

I can't wait to get home and get out my coin collection so I can bone up on English history. I need to keep track of this stuff, because almost all of my ancestors were English.
Howard