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Mr T

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  1. Mr T
    Nice, I've tried something similar before but gave up because of the character limit - that little hack to increase it is neat though. This should be stickied.
  2. Mr T
    I had a link to Euro website which I don't recall, but I guess the value would be dependent on the mintage, but it looks like that site only gives the total mintage and not per mintmark.
  3. Mr T
    Right you are - I should have qualified it by saying reverse dies. I think besides the bun head obverse, every obverse after that had initials.
  4. Mr T
    Prone to fill? I don't have any 1862 halfpennies but the reverse G image in Freeman doesn't appear to show a full crop of rocks compared to Malcolm Lewendon's reverse G (though neither of those images are of an 1862 halfpenny - they're 1867 and 1864 respectively).
  5. Mr T
    I thought for a good chunk in the middle there were few or no initials (1870s to 1920s?) but certainly after that mostly there were initials.
  6. Mr T
    Agreed - while there are a lot of Australian decimal varieties to discuss, most collectors I think aren't that interested: predecimal varieties tend to get more coverage, but the last new Australian predecimal variety was discovered in 2003 and I don't think any more will be coming out of the wood-work at this point (meanwhile Victorian bronze seems to have an apparently endless supply of varieties that even 150+ years later keep trickling out). I'm not fully across the the various changes to decimal British coins but I assume the changes haven't caused anywhere near the same level of interest as the switch to decimal currency in 1970? I wonder if New Zealand's coin shrinking in 2006 had a big impact on the hobby.
  7. Mr T
    Probably.
  8. Mr T
    I don't remember what got me started on older coins but having them at the start of every catalogue I've ever bought probably helped. Still strong I'd say - there are still a few societies, regular shows and a local magazine, and of course the Royal Australian Mint is churning out more collector coins than ever. As annoying as the plethora of coloured $2 coins is, it probably helps spark an interest in the man on the street. There is a dedicated subforum on Coin Community too which used to be quite busy (a lot of traffic moved to the hidden sections of https://www.australian-coins.net/ around 2012 - it has been a bit quiet of late but I think it's harder to sustain continuous conversation about 108 years of Australian coinage (not including the gold) compared to many hundreds of years of British coinage).
  9. Mr T
    See this is what I think too - I think that interest in coins is probably declining in general (these days I think this sort of hobby is less common than it used to be and there are lots of other things to keep children entertained) but there are still people who get into it for whatever reason (have a family member that does it, inherit a collection, spot something interesting in change etc) and I don't think coin collecting will ever die out. New collectors will invariably spread to older coinage though - they might get bored of the modern stuff, finish their modern collection or be wealthy enough to want to chase down some of the older rarities.
  10. Mr T
    Australian pennies (struck in London, Birmingham, Sydney and Melbourne) I believe can have slightly different diameters too - effectively the same coin and produced the same way. Possibly a slightly wider collar could cause the metal to spread a little further?
  11. Mr T
    For sure sooner or later - in Australia even ATMs fees have been scrapped (the reason rumoured to be that about 10 years ago cash withdrawals hit their peak). Still, cash has its place and I would be surprised if it disappeared altogether (private exchange of value isn't illegal).
  12. Mr T
    There's one at http://www.drakesterling.com/coins-for-sale/products/1847-gothic-crown (I've purchased from him before without complaint).
  13. Mr T
    I'm not sure - I think you just need to know (you might see rimmed planchets with no design for sale - see https://www.pinterest.com.au/pin/474989091923239723/ for example - there are Australian 10c and 20c planchets with rims but no design).
  14. Mr T
    I remember seeing something similar either here or another forum - it was a a World War I-era ad for something similar that featured a double florin - a coin which obviously hadn't been produced in more than 20 years.
  15. Mr T
    The reeding is part of the collar and denticles are part of the design. The rim may or may not be part of the striking process.
  16. Mr T
    Freeman says reverse E is proof only for London minted coins - maybe that's what it refers to?
  17. Mr T
    What's the weight? Probably someone has dipped it in something/sprayed it with something.
  18. Mr T
    Definitely. Possibly working dies were used as master dies too?
  19. Mr T
    Die production changed over time - I'm not sure what happened in the the 1860s but I assume there was a single master die which was periodically used to produce hubs (I think) which were then used to produce working dies. In Australia in the 1920s at least working dies were produced in batches of six - I don't know the entire process but I guess it probably made economic sense to produce in batches than as required but I don't know.
  20. Mr T
    With regards to what terrysoldpennies said there are actually four different sub-types of reverse D on the pennies of 1860 and 1861 but not all of them appear in each year.
  21. Mr T
    I believe it's obverse 15 - Malcolm Lewendon's CD of images says obverse 14 has 152 rim denticles and obverse 15 has 149 rim denticles. I've left myself a note that says on obverse 14 the second : of D:G: points between rim denticles while on obverse 15 the second : of D:G: points at a rim denticle.
  22. Mr T
    Do you have pictures of the whole coins?
  23. Mr T
    I picked up a copy a few years ago and it's well worth the read - there's more than just the pretty pictures. The Royal Mint Museum has some nice colour photos of most (possibly all) of what's in the book too.
  24. Mr T
    Is your foreign junk likely to have been searched before it got to you? If it has then there's probably not much to be gained.
  25. Mr T
    What sort of backup?
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