zookeeperz

On my 1922 threepence all of ADVANCE AUSTRALIA and the date is Doubled die which is a true DD not repunched as you can see the notching on the serifs like on the 2 they are notched bottom left on the angle and the top where the 2 starts same for the 9 tail and 1. I have looked for others for a good few years after I found this one. Always nice to fly under the radar for a while but then it becomes frustrating when it feels like you are the only one who has one lol which I very much doubt.

Heavens no. I'd slit my wrists first

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/GREAT-BRITAIN-1826-1-4d-FARTHING-PCGS-MS63BN/273173774393 Shocking tbh I would of thought with that amount of damage to the edges they would of called it a details coin. I mean an innocuous edge knock is one thing but when it's been in the hands of a panel beater it's a stretch too much I think

it looks same as picture under the loupe. If it was incised wouldn't it break the cartwheel lustre on the parts that were etched? because this looks as it was when it left the mint. There is also other design markings under the shields and on cross points of the sceptres . The obverse looks like it could possibly of been double struck as the patterns to the left of G's face looks like and inverted profile rotated? The design itself isn't like something you would do yourself.The pattern is uneven and has different layers not like someone etching a wing shape in to the coin if you get me. the shapes look to be at different depths. akin to something being struck deeper in one section and lighter in others. I have not seen anything like it before. And around the design elements the brown fluid like substance looks to have been trapped during the annealing process and not washed out as it is local to that design point. The kings head has no fluid residue at all or any trace of it ever having any.

Those areas that look like mirror images of themselves side by side are raised just very slightly almost as if the fluid has settled in the incuse valley and hi-lighted the shapes which are identical in each segment. Impossible to know what is beneath the main design as nothing can be seen. it's entirely possible that it could be the original design that never quite struck correctly and just left the slightest imprint and the at a different angle struck completely? stranger things have happened at sea.? Why they always seem to happen at sea is a mystery to me though

with a whimsical undertone I found a line but it's on the right hand side of the lighthouse. I also found some strange defect at the top of the lighthouse making look like the outer stairwell they have that are always used for fight scenes in movies . Also a fingerish flaw? Perhaps from a person of restricted height And a lonely mouse swimming off to join the navy

I remember when google sent you where you wanted to go straight away with 1 or 2 alternatives. Now any word in a sentence is a link to the beyond of god knows where. It's absolutely crap now worthless tool.

what it look like Peck? do you have a Piccy?

They seek em here they seek em there 1881 4 berries Farthing I thought i'd share.

Incuse wave? Oh no here we go again. Out with the Pennies lols. all good fun. Great Info Hawk nice 1 Richard

Morning folks. I bought this 1929 florin. it's such a nice coin . Great strike and just dripping with lustre . But there is some really strange pattern underlying the whole coin almost like a butterfly wing effect in each section where the shield isn't present and a strange looking C at the top right quarter. Any ideas what has caused this? is it something in the design or on a wrong planchet? any help most appreciated

I have Rennick's error coins and the normal edition but like most of these guides they kind of roll you around the exact place you are looking for lol. It just amazes me the prices for coins that in the UK anomalies like die cracks are completely ignored as are doubled die coins. I have a 1934/3 threepence and a 1922 I think off the top of my head doubled die reverse australian threepence and a 1933/2 Penny. but the penny sadly has been cleaned by some nonk long ago before I came across it. I did ask in other forums about the Doubled die threepence but as usual if fell upon deaf ears. It seems unlike British pre-decimal coins Australia didn't seem to suffer from the same plagues in minting so finding coins that have sold or are being sold are very thin on the ground.

Just been messing with it and in the dark with 2 mini floodlights. I think the result is much better top picture is normal and bottom is what i just took . Only thing is the coin is the colour of the top set but it looks like the bottom set in its detail as in you can see the patina rather than a stain look. i'll just keep at it lol.

I was generalising . I still wouldn't be able to get close ups crystal clear. But I am just a humble point and click guy . I don't know anything about photography other than the click button. But when I have asked in many forums about why my pics lack the fine detail that is crystal clear I am always told to get an SLR . Probably still wouldn't aid me unless I invested time in learning about photography. I tend to stick to the auto program . I don't have the time or the state of well being to read anything longer than a sentence such is the effects of narcolepsy . As soon as I start to concentrate on one particular thing I end up in the land of nod lol. So variety checking is somewhat hazardous at best . I wouldn't knock anyone's set up I don't qualify in the knowledge department my comment was purely based on what I have been told. Not that it really answered my question. Like why? People who know things on a subject matter and I am guilty myself we seem to think that everyone will know what we are talking about. All fine and dandy if that subject floats your boat too. But if you are a complete novice even the terminology used backs me off asking anything else in fear of looking like a complete simpleton . I just wished my camera pics were better than my digi-scope pics. I paid a few bob for the camera although granted it isn't a market leader. It has super macro settings so I just surmised we are good to go. Sadly that couldn't be farther from the truth. So it's in it's bag and probably stay there for eternity Richard

All that is accumulated over the years where there were mixed countries in the lots. I will get shot of it eventually. Just pains me to think I might get rid of something of value and not know it. Hate that. But I have found lots of coins with errors and doubled dies. Even the modern junk holds a few treasures That's not a lot really not compared to 5000 coins I have in foreign countries. If it's shiny and like looking into a pool of water I tend to keep it. I would like to find some more yank coins pre-federal and the older ottoman coins. Good markets to be in.