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A few nice upgrades won at auction last week: Outstanding!  |
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Excellent Victoria piece, Paddy!
I'm guessing 1/2d, but there's really no way to tell its denomination without eyeballing it for size, am I right?
Best to all ~
Tom
"If everything seems to be under control, you're just not going fast enough."
--- Mario Andretti
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Yes - the 1841 and 1772 are both Halfpennies, the Woods 1723 is a farthing.
It is difficult to sport the differences between the Victorian coppers without scale, but not impossible. On the pennies, the Queen's nose points between the C and T of Victoria. On the halfpennies it is between the T and O. On the farthings it is to the C of Victoria and much closer to it.
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A few nice upgrades won at auction last week:
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First post by me in a while, just one coin.   I have a dozen of these in "average" condition - but how many do you see in AU condition. Because its a common year (74 million) and base metal - people were less likely to put them aside "Hey I have this 1905 halfcrown!  " "So what I have a 1948 one  "  Anyway it is shiny and looks as nice as my 1940s sylver halfcrowns! |
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Great 1948 halfcrown, Princetane!
You're right, you hardly ever see Uncirculated British George VI cupro-nickel coins. Everyone was putting away the silver ones and the cupro-nickel ones just got ignored! I am just old enough to remember that in the late 1960s practically every single halfcrown in circulation in England was dated 1948 - there was a huge mintage that year but nobody saved any!
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First post by me in a while, just one coin. Sometimes one is all you need. |
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Too true NumisRob
It is the same here, every Halfcrown in NZ in the 60s was dated 1950 and almost none were not VG to high Fine, my 2 in the downunder thread were almost unique.
I think early Cupronickel looks a lot nicer when it shines, Cupronickel like silver gets quite dull when it wears.
JBuck, I would have won more coins to show, but either I get outbid now or I forget the closing time and the auction closes before I expect it too.
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JBuck, I would have won more coins to show, but either I get outbid now or I forget the closing time and the auction closes before I expect it too. Any success with auction wins ought to be commended. The misses are a part of the journey I expect.  I have only bid on a few, won none. All my successful online purchases have been BIN.  |
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Here is my latest from the British Isles. AR Penny - Cnut Struck: 1016 - 1035 Mint: London (Moneyer: Eadred) Size: 18.24mm Weight: 1.0g Ref: North 790 Obv: +CNU-T RECX, bust left holding scepter. Rev: +EDRED ON LVNDE, voided short cross.  |
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That is stunning a real lovely piece.
1000 years old and from a King known for his attempt to control the tide. Canute was also a Dane and king of Denmark!
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To be fair to Cnut, he didn't try to control the tide. His obsequious courtiers kept flattering him as the most powerful king in the world - so powerful that even nature obeyed him. He went to the beach to prove them wrong!
Nice coin by the way. Was that from the DNW auction?
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Paddy, no this was not purchased from that auction.
My favorite notable factoid about Cnut; As King of England, Denmark and Norway, he brought a long absent period of relative peace and a reprieve by defending England from Viking invaders. Most of whom were ironically under his own command. :)
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