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Bernie

Victoria Bronze Halfpennies R19 wanted

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Willing to pay cash or exchange for other extremely rare varieties. Strangely enough, collectors who have such rare coins sometimes manage to get more than one example !

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On 8/8/2022 at 5:55 PM, Bernie said:

Willing to pay cash or exchange for other extremely rare varieties. Strangely enough, collectors who have such rare coins sometimes manage to get more than one example !

That baffles me too - if they manage to track down an upgrade, you'd think they would be generous enough to make the first example available to other collectors.

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It's possible that they really paid over the odds to get their first example and then want to wait a while for inflation to raise prices before they sell ?

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My problem is that I cannot find out who owns these elusive coins. No collector that I know of owns these coins, but I often hear stories from collectors that they have heard of others that hold multiple examples. In the 1990's I advertised widely that I was searching for some of the elusive bronze pennies. I had very little luck and until later surveys were compiled, I couldn't believe that the amount of these rarities actually existed. Since wide use of the internet, coin forums etc, it was almost impossible to assess the true rarity of coins. I must admit, I am a bit guilty of holding duplicate coins, I don't need money fortunately, but hoping that trading may be the answer to obtaining the coins that I require.

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Have you a list of coins that you are looking for, just out of interest? Somebody may have something for sale.

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Half pennies sometimes seem to be the poor relative of the Bronze world many of the errors I have started to list on the half penny variety thread.  Some have been previously identified but I think there are others that are still to be found.  I have started with my 1860's I admit to having at least two for my own desire to verify it as an error variety.  But I am always happy to sell some for the charity.  

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