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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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G'day
Firecom911 wrote:
"You've mentioned that you're assembling an 1887 year set.
What coins will that include?
Why 1887?"
Answer: because 1887 was the year with the greatest number of types:
gold: 5, 2, & 1 pound, and half-sov
the sovs & half sovs were made in London, Sydney, & Melbourne, in both YH & JH obverses; so mintmarks come into the set.
the YH sovs occur in both shield & St George reverses.
That's nine sovs and six half-sovs.
17 gold coins.
silver: 5s, 4s, 2/6, 2s, 1s, 6d, 4d, 3d, 2d, & 1d
many of the above occur in both YH & JH: there are eight YH, and seven JH, plus a few die varieties.
there were three types of sixpence in 1887.
16 silver coins.
bronze: penny, halfpenny, and farthing. So far as I know, only one obverse.
Without totalling the die varieties, that's 36 coins, from one country, all bearing date 1887.
And there's the forged half-sov.
I'm about a third-way into my task. The challenging one is the 5-pound: nearly 40 grams of gold.
And if the fancy takes me, I can start on the Imperial coins of 1887.
Peter in Oz
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Pillar of the Community
 Australia
2830 Posts |
G'day, the 5-pound comes on to the market often enough to be realistically obtainable.
They don't seem to be in great demand, so they seem to go for melt plus 10% ~ 100%, depending upon condition, of course.
I've never bought a thousand-dollar coin, even in Oz-dollars, and don't expect to do so soon. But dreams are free ...
Peter, in Cloud-land
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Posted 10/04/2007 10:32 pm
