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Very good score! Thanks for sharing!
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Thanks for sharing. Great research! score!!
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Very nice find. Thanks for sharing
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Well done! Sir. W. Strikes a gooder!
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That must have been a fun day at the mint. Are the dates here http://www.coinscan.com/for/fij.html for Fiji cents struck at RCM complete? This thread got my attention because I've had a copper blank/planchet (both sides blank, faint hint of a rim) in my cent jar, that I think I picked out of circulation decades ago, always wondered where it came from. It most closely resembles the dimensions of my 1982 Fiji one cent ("Grow More Food" http://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces2747.html); definitely too small to be a US or Canada cent. I'm not sure if I got it in Fiji when I was there in 1985. @Zimmy's fascinating coin gets me thinking a Fiji blank somehow entered circulation in the US or Canada. How else to identify blanks? I don't have a scale. Back on topic, the Fiji cents are 17.5 mm and the Canadian 19.05 mm. I'm curious why the beads on subject coin aren't closer to the rim considering the presumed planchet was 1.5 mm smaller. Did the Papau New Guinea strike smash the planchet into a wider diameter? |
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With the Fiji planchet being smaller than a New Guinea 1 Toea collar and even smaller in comparison to a Canadian Cent collar, when struck by these "foreign" dies, the smaller planchet will tend to expand until it reaches the collar. Some what similar effect when the collar is missing on a broadstruck coin.
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Just got the coin back from NGC. See previous posts for clear images of the actual coin. Came back MS66RED. I have never seen or heard of an error coin affecting 3 different countries.  |
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Very nice! Congrats Zimmy!
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"Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search." -- J. Robert OppenheimerContent of this post is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses...0/deed.en_USMy eBay store
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Great to have it certified cool coin
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