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Mr T
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It looks like Baldwin's have a new website and have thrown out all of their previous auction catalogues as a result.
Would anyone happen to have a .pdf of the catalogue for auction 95 in 2015? I'm looking for details on https://www.numisbids.com/n.php?p=lot&sid=1242&lot=2305 and https://www.numisbids.com/n.php?p=lot&sid=1242&lot=2307
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Although I think he means 1881 as 1880 is P and P*.
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I ended up getting a response from Iain Dracott - C1 is C# and J1 is J#, and 1880 has the following die pairings: 15+O, 15+O#, 15# +O, 15#+O#
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5mm-6mm difference - I think it probably is a halfpenny planchet.
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7 hours ago, Mr T said:That's more likely - maybe Guyana or Cypress?
Too early for Cyprus or Straits Settlements and British Honduras is what I was thinking of when I wrote Guyana, but the British Honduras cent was copper and 29mm - I think there is probably more than 2mm missing there.
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6 hours ago, Rob said:We therefore have to consider the alternatives. Anyone familiar with colonial issues that could match the size seen? A third option could be a TPG error - a regular penny inadvertently slabbed in a halfpenny holder, with the missing bits hidden in a polymer sandwich
That's more likely - maybe Guyana or Cypress?
I didn't hunt down a bigger picture but I can't see fishtailing on the letters which is supposed to confirm an undersize planchet I thought.
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Not bad.
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On 11/23/2021 at 12:51 PM, VickySilver said:I would be most interested if you would be able to photograph one, I am waiting to see an unequivocal matte after 1977 - not including some of the satiny coins like the 1984 Liberia & some of those later BVI issues that are not IMHO matte.
I'll have to dig out what I have at some point but I've never purchased anything specifically as a matte - have you ever seen an unbroken cardboard set with matte coins in it? My memory may be playing tricks on me but maybe I saw one on ebay years ago.
And what does a matte actually look like? I know the uncirculated coins have a brilliant finish and proofs have cameo surfaces with frosted designs.
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Yeah the more I think about it, the more I think I've seen not many matte coins for sale - there are some Cook Islands matte coins for sale on ebay now and... I'm not sure. I agree that toning can play tricks.
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I can imagine - my Franklin Mint interests are only the Cook Islands and Solomon Islands, and the 1982 and 1983 Solomon Islands coins are rare. Clearly the bubble had burst by 1982 so I can only imagine how tough it must be to find anything from 1984.
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On 11/15/2021 at 9:29 AM, Nick said:It's just a quirk of timing. Some 1920 sixpences and threepences were minted just before the change to 50% silver was made. I'm not aware of any other denominations being produced in sterling silver, but it is, of course, possible.
Differentiating .500 and .925 is easy in raw form (based on ring), but impossible if slabbed.
This got me thinking - was it just Davies' observation of both types of threepence and sixpence or had only threepence and sixpence production started when the alloy was changed?
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Not sure - of the notes I've made for myself the only thing I can make out well enough is those bottom two berries and I think on obverse 13 they should be different sizes, whereas on obverse 11/12 they are the same size.
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Not sure about the mattes either - I think there was a Cook Islands matte 50c piece for sale on ebay recently and it was rather expensive.
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Well done - are there 1984 proof sets?
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10 hours ago, secret santa said:I'm inclined to take this with a pinch of salt. I'm not totally convinced that there's a deliberate design difference between obverse 11 and 12 let alone an additional obverse 11*. A high resolution photograph of a high grade example is essential before we accept this.
I don't disagree, but the comparators did seem more helpful than the subjective neck thickness and nose hookedness.
Does anyone have Iain Dracott's details to get some more information?
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So 11* is new - probably need a photo to make sense of it but a recut tie ribbon and overlapping berries make it sound a bit easier to diagnose than Freeman obverses 11 and 12.
1877 13+N also looks new though I'm not sure what the comment is getting as the obverse and reverse are both well-known.
1880 15+O* also looks new but based on the comment about all four die pairings, 15*+P* would seem to be the die. Or maybe it's meant to be 1881 where 15+O* was reported by him in 2004. Also I assume O* is Dracott O#.
Nothing new in the farthings that I can see.
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Hm, I'm still not sure - the extra strand on the helmet tail seems to be present on Holland D* reverse pennies but maybe not on the others. More digging required but it seems like D* is the most common at a glance.
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7 hours ago, Zo Arms said:Will try and pick up a copy tomorrow. Is it an update to his 2004 work?
I haven't looked closely to see if there is anything new but it's just a two page summary of new farthing, halfpenny and penny varieties since Freeman.
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So in Iain Dracott's article in the November Coin News - I'm assuming that the C1 and J1 reverses he talks about are the C# and J# from his 2004 articles?
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The only reverse D image I had handy was at https://headsntails14.wordpress.com/victoria-bronze-reverses/ and it looks like the new obverse has an extra strand on the tail of the helmet? Between the tail and Britannia's head.
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On 10/12/2021 at 10:47 PM, secret santa said:Plain old "D" I think.
Do you have a photo of the whole reverse out of curiosity? Are the two lines the only strange thing about it?
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Okay that was my assumption too - the silver coins book doesn't go into the depth of Davies that's for sure.
Any looked at a copy of the first edition?
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I have nothing to contribute but congratulations on the new find! Must be very satisfying, although filling a gap you didn't know you had doesn't really get you closer the complete set.
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My only thought is... die fill has occurred, then somehow the build-up in the die has fallen off and been struck onto the coin. Maybe.
I'm not sure what else it could be.
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new zealand patterns in 2015 baldwin's auction
in Enquiries about Non British coins
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Agreed - probably they didn't want to pay the developers of the new site to bring across the old data.