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Posts posted by Mr T
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I don't have many proofs but I think I have most of them in flips. I haven't checked them lately though.
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Surely if it was an intentional fabrication there would be more out there and someone would be cashing.
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On 6/12/2023 at 7:10 AM, Peckris 2 said:Ah thanks - and which obverse is it?
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On 6/12/2023 at 11:32 PM, VickySilver said:A bit of a diversion: of course some of us remember when the Pretoria Branch Mint DID INDEED deaqusition their holdings, or at least a substantial portion & don't think the RM will be doing so....
What year was that?
The Royal Australian Mint sold off a bunch of its collection (1987 or so onwards) including some rare patterns. Bit of a shame I thought, even if it was good that a few things saw the light of day.
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Trick of the light but the c and e look different - like the top bar is shorter on the c.
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Freeman is the only place I know of for bronze farthings.
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On 5/27/2023 at 8:12 AM, Peckris 2 said:I think possibly that my rarest coin is an 1887 6d identified as one type among very many patterns that exist for that year (and none have more than subtle differences):
As you can see, the first 8 is struck over another 8; however the feature that first drew my attention to it (and why I bought it) is the big gap between the second 8 and the 7. The inner circles of the 8 point directly to a space, but on the normal example they are to the left of a bead. The tail of the 7 points exactly to a bead, rather than to the left of it.
Do you have pictures of the coin in its entirety?
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No, this is the first I've heard of this and while I don't collect decimals myself, I do keep an eye on this forum.
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Freeman 5 is Peck 4 for farthings (and Freeman 6 is Peck 5 - the three berries obverse).
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Yeah no mix-ups on the 1925 by the looks of it.
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What are the Groom numbers for the reverses? I have 157 and 163 denticles for the obverses but I think the different reverses have the same number of denticles.
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On 4/23/2023 at 6:49 PM, Rob said:ESC 3249 (1738). The last one I noticed went through Heritage in the last 5 years. Can't remember the date though.
Many thanks.
Unhelpfully listed under the sixpences of 1880!
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That's quite nice - good call out to their heritage.
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The Royal Mint have done coloured coins before haven't they? Or is this pad-printed rather than painted?
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On 4/19/2023 at 8:04 PM, Rob said:I think the 1839 sets were produced on demand up to the mint refurbishment in 1882, because it's difficult to find another reason for the 1839 sixpence reverse combined with the final young head obverse which wasn't introduced until 1880. These are rare. It might also explain the minimal number of inverted die axis 1839 proof halfpennies (P1523*) and farthings (P1557) known. My 1839/41 halfpenny is inverted, but I don't know anyone with another inverted 1839 halfpenny to see if that is also 1839/41. Can anyone chip in here?
Is the 1839 proof sixpence with obverse 6 mentioned in any books?
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On 4/21/2023 at 5:02 PM, Kipster said:Is this normal?
Seems to be - buyers fees and sellers fees together are now standard, though I have seen some auction houses pay you for the big ticket lots as VickySilver said.
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On 4/11/2023 at 4:47 AM, Zo Arms said:I may be wrong but I think MrT is able to contact him, judging by a response from him on page 8 of this thread.
Edited to add that I've just messaged MrT, so we may know shortly.
Mr Dracott's views would certainly be a great help in identifying the major differences.
Message sent. I don't think I was able to get an answer on obverse 11* though.
On 4/10/2023 at 11:11 PM, secret santa said:Do you have good pictures of obverses 11 and 12 illustrating the differences ?
My 2c (or 2p) is it's the same obverse - the descriptions seem to be contradictory at times and manual touch-ups to some working dies seems like a reasonable explanation.
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https://www.ramint.gov.au/circulating-coins shows the current Australian designs - they're not the classic designs of 100-150 years ago but they have a nice simplicity to them I think.
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Still in circulation is a tough one - I like Australia and New Zealand's at least, although they've been unchanged for close to 60 years.
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The images aren't showing for me.
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Nice find.
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Nice find!
From the first photo I would have said a letter blunder but based on the above photo maybe something just damaged the die?
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No idea but I'd be interested to know. I think https://www.londoncoins.co.uk/?page=Pastresults&auc=124&searchtype=3&startres=1050 is the Davies collection sale so it's worth looking there.
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Not sure - maybe the Royal Mint annual reports (now on their website and searchable) give some figures?