Is there still a demand for bronze pennies?

[RChris]

Having lost interest in my penny collection and getting on in years, I decided to sell some. Someone else may as well enjoy them. It's a long time since I used this forum so having forgot about it, I put some on eBay. Is that a good place to sell or better on here? I listed this 1965 heavy flan but had no interest so it's re-listed. I also put a collection of errors on there.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/127966667173

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/127965963419

Edited yesterday at 12:54 PM by RChris
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[wlewisiii]

Damn, that's lovely. I'm really much more into silver than bronze coins but that one is so lovely that all I can say is "thank you" for sharing it. 

[Rob]

Interesting as it might be, it will be a random strike on a blank intended for something else. You can hazard a guess as to the intended blank, but if you send it to the Royal Mint, their records will tell what issues were being struck in that year on blanks of that weight. 

I have a 67 florin which was apparently struck on a blank for a Burundi 10 Francs, which I would not have guessed. i.e yours could be a blank for anywhere on the planet. Best ask the question. Value will be minimal, but does have some value above the regular issue.

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1 Penny 1965 Mint Error - Mis Strike, struck on a thicker heavy flan and weighing 12.11 grammes, A/UNC the obverse with traces of lustre, 

Sold £280

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1 minute ago, absence of uniformity said:

Here is your coin which sold through LCA, maybe it was you who purchased it ? 

1 Penny 1965 Mint Error - Mis Strike, struck on a thicker heavy flan and weighing 12.11 grammes, A/UNC the obverse with traces of lustre, 

Sold £280 06/03/2016

 

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I quickly checked a few of the obvious commonwealth countries I cant find a bronze coin that size and weight.

[RChris]

Thanks chaps....yes, I saw it on the LCA website when researching the value and included that in my eBay listing. I honestly can't recall if it was I who obtained it from LCA as it is obviously the same one. It's nice in hand, quite obviously heavier. If I did pay that much for it I assume I will be lucky to get my money back. I may be wrong but get the impression there was much more interest back then.

Edited 8 hours ago by RChris

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2 minutes ago, RChris said:

Thanks chaps....yes, I saw it on the LCA website when researching the value and included that in my eBay listing. I honestly can't recall if it was I who obtained it from LCA as it is obviously the same one. It's nice in hand, quite obviously heavier. If I did pay that much for it I assume I will be lucky to get my money back. I may be wrong but get the impression there was much more interest back then.

Did you set a reserve? It would be a shame to let it go for a fraction of the price it has previously made..  Surely it's not a common coin? Then again it's quite obscure in the sense you need to be looking for it and weighing 65's to find one.

[Rob]

The problem with spurious Mint emissions is that a deliberate anomalous product commands a much higher price than a random blank picked up and thrown in the bucket for use. i.e. if you could prove it was a striking specifically tied to a certain mint action, such as trying out a regular mix on a different thickness blank, or a test for a new currency contract from a foreign country, you will do better than the unintended oddball. Wrong flans occur regularly, which is not surprising given the billions of blanks cut every year. Clearly even a hundred wrong'uns would be extremely rare, but in the context of mint operations would only amount to a rounding error if checked for weight.

So to consider the above point, it is definitely not common, certainly excessively rare (in the context of a currency issue) and maybe even unique. The problem lies in documentation, because errors are by definition, not struck for the records.

[secret santa]

Interestingly, I bought a heavy 1967 penny (13.43 gm) at London Coins auction in September 2013 along with a couple of decimal errors for £95.

Mint Errors (3) Penny 1967 struck on a thick flan and weighing 13.43 grammes EF, Decimal Two Pence 1978 uniface Obverse only NEF, Decimal Penny 1976 VF with raised unusual collar.