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Mr T
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I'd try using a hardwood tooth-pick as well. It might not do any good if it's terribly encrusted but if it's only light then it works reasonably well.
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Just curious, where's the best place to read about the history of these patterns?
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1871 - Appropriate design for a coin.
2012 - Too cartoony, but less cartoony than the 2005.
2005 - Too cartoony.
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You can still acces the pages if you know the correct URLs. The links have just been disabled. Here's one I saved that you might find of interest;
Thanks.
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Not able to log on to gouby but looks like BP1860E
There's an electronic version of Michael Gouby's writings?
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One more case about Centles. How can it be MS62 with such horrible corrosion?
Is that from a so-called 'basement slabber'?
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I've been a few times and it's good. Plenty of dealers looking to do business, though no bar.
Compared to other coin shows it's the biggest and the only one where you'll be able to get your mint-marked dollar.
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I'm interested in coins minted in Australia for England are there any (the early 1900 halfcrowns?? )
Only half sovereigns and sovereigns (and the two and five pound coins but too only proofs were ever struck).
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I went to visit Downies in Melbourne when I happened to be there on business, showed them the fake Northumberland shilling they had auctioned and they proved to be worse than ignorant about it (examined it in hand and declared it as genuine simply because it wasn't a high enough grade to be a fake!).
Their shop sold only modern tat, I wasn't at all impressed, but to be fair they did arrange a full refund when I had it rejected by CGS
A reality check is overdue for them (a comment that might apply to other traditional auction houses too, as has been noted!).
Another encounter with Downies (not mine): http://www.coincommunity.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=162460
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Some sort of partial collar error. Not sure about how common it is with British coins but it's reasonably uncommon on Australian coins. Definitely a keeper.
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Do you have a picture?
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David Groom in his variety book mentions a 1919 penny with a raised dot where the H would be - is this returned die with the H poorly obliterated?
Anyone seen or have a picture of this variety?
I think it also mentions H and K in KN either being aligned with or between beads.
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I've also read somewhere that the Australian pennies struck in India 1916-1918 had the I mintmark applied in London (using an I punch used for Edward VII Maundy twopence).
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The first four (1870-3) can be downloaded free from Google books as a single pdf. Others have been published by various publishers at various times. Search Amazon and you'll find a number of years grouped together into one publication. Usually around £20-£25 per group of years.They occasionally turn up on eBay too, but these are usually the much later years, which are not as interesting a read.
Thanks! http://books.google.com.au/books?id=h3JHAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false for anyone having trouble finding it.
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Is there anything to suggest more than one 1880/70 die was used for the London coins?
It's possible that it happened in Melbourne or Sydney as I think they both relied on London sending the fully dated dies in a timely manner, something which didn't always happen. I believe there a few earlier Australian overdate sovereigns though I'm not sure whether they came about due to the late arrival of new dies or for some other reason.
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Reading between the lines of the Royal Mint Annual Report for 1893Where does one find a copy of these reports?
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I'd say the low to mid thousands of dollars (or pounds), unless off-metal strikes are more popular than I think they are.
Is collecting decimals much less popular than collecting predecimals though? It's hard to say as this board is obviously focussed on the predecimal side of things.
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BTW. How can PCGS use the term "First Strike". Statistically, that's gonna be wrong most of the time. Unless it's a fake coin in a fake slab...I've seen this type of thing advertised before but I don't remember the details (though the example I read about involved specially labelling the first 500 or so struck). I think the mint involved gets on board with PCGS to do this.
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Looks like it's had another coin hammered on the reverse or something like that.
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I see a search box to the far left of the
I don't remember the edit button being available when I first posted but it appears for me now so I don't know.
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Who would clean a proof set ?
there were some right numpties around in the past wern't there !
Country cottage interiors ?- more Like cunrtycottagecleanedcoins
It's my understanding that the mint workers were very helpful in giving the 1902 proof set a good wipe before they left the mint. I don't know how true this is but I have seen a few 1902 proofs with parallel lines.
I've read that too - apparently they didn't care for the idea of matte proofs.
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But if the blanks got into the wrong tub BEFORE having the hole struck out?
I think the central hole would part of the original blank preparation, rather than a two stage process.
Bit I'm happy to be corrected if anyone knows the actual mechanics of holey coin production
I'm not too sure myself but I've read somewhere that the hole-punching can happen during blank preparation or during/after striking.
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I'm using Chrome and only today has the style sheet been properly served have I been able to log in.
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When will PCGS realise that "UN DECIMO" (sic) is Latin for eleventh and should be one word.
Right after the word piefort stops being used.
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I don't think so, but I guess that's just how it is. A while ago I made enquiries about viewing Australia's national coin collection, held by the Royal Australian Mint. The public aren't allowed to view it, though apparently dribs and drabs of the interesting stuff are displayed from time to time.
Strangely though, Museum Victoria seems to have publicly available photos of its entire coin collection - a fairly comprehensive collection of British Empire coins (including the Sydney Mint and Melbourne Mint collections).