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| 1924 Penny With Crack Through Date
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QldSandy
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Australia
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 Posted 03/16/2025 7:55 pm
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| Hi Ttkoo and Basil. It has been a long time between posts eh, but the info above is what I have found noodling over the years. I actually just put a pair of 1924 filled 4's in 2x2's yesterday, one with the London and one with the Indian obverse, and was going to start a thread on the filled 4's but saw this today. I have a penny error and variety set with over 650 coins that I have found by searching through many kilos of pennies, and I have another 8 kg on the way to look at. Cheers. |
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| Image Hosting For Forum Pics
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QldSandy
Valued Member
Australia
61 Posts |
Posted 10/29/2024 10:08 pm
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Hi all. I have been away from coin collecting since about 2010 as other stuff got in the way, but am keen to start from where I left off.
My first question is "What do you guys use these days for image hosting"?
I was using photobucket but there must be something better by now I feel.
My second question is "What happened to the excellent Aussie penny page that I thought was Sandbox, but I could be wrong"? The page had good images and the details needed on both sides, die varieties, mintmarks etc for all Aussie pennies.
Cheers and have a great day. |
| | Forum: Variety & Error Coins, Bank Notes, Paper Money: Australia, New Zealand, & South Pacific (Oceania) |
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| Australian Penny 1942(B) Without I
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QldSandy
Valued Member
Australia
61 Posts |
Posted 03/01/2010 4:35 pm
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I don't know that there are "hundreds" of varieties with the Australian Pennies, but about a hundred would be close. There are hundreds when you consider the errors such as diefills, planchet flaws, diecracks etc.
My collection of variety and error Pennies is well over 600 with many more to come I feel. I do have one of the coins as above and there are thoughts it is a diefill although I can't find any sign of where the I should be under 200x magnification, and other thoughts that it is a variety when the mintmark was mistakenly ommitted. Cheers. |
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| 1930 Australian Penny
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QldSandy
Valued Member
Australia
61 Posts |
Posted 12/26/2009 9:43 pm
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I had a look at the link and the fuzzy pictures seem to show a Calcutta reverse die. If I copy and paste the image and enlarge it the ALIA seems to line up where it should for a London reverse die. If Latman counted 174 denticles then that would also indicate the correct die.
It highlights the importance of good images for valuable coins becuase I would have bet it was a fake and it appears to be genuine. Cheers. |
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| 1930 Australian Penny
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QldSandy
Valued Member
Australia
61 Posts |
Posted 12/26/2009 04:17 am
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I just spent 30 minutes typing a reply with links and lost it because this useless piece of @^%^# told me my user/password was wrong.
I am not going to waste another 30 minutes but will say that the first image looks genuine while the second one shows the last 2 A's and the I in AUSTRALIA pointing between the denticles and the L pointing at one. Going by this I would say it is a Calcutta "C" reverse and not the London "A" type it should be. This lead me to believe it is an altered 1916, 1917, 1918 or 1920 Penny, of which 1920 would be the suspect as it never had the I mintmark.
I would be getting it professionally inspected as the pic is not that clear. Cheers. |
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| Reverse & Flate Base Lettering On Pennies
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QldSandy
Valued Member
Australia
61 Posts |
Posted 12/17/2009 6:23 pm
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Your link doesn't work but hopefully the one below does.
https://www.triton.vg/lettering.html
I am collecting variety and error Pennies and have searched for examples of both lettering types. I remember seeing some writings on a train of thought that had an explanation for some of the flat/curved base lettering. It also had a model of how the metal flows into the legends of the die and if insufficient striking force was applied then the result was curving of the bases of the lettering. I would have thought it would also apply to the tops of the letters such as "T" but haven't seen any examples of that. That's not to say that the cause of some of the partially curved bases are not because of the above.
I do know that there are coins that seem to be in "limbo" ie; not falling into either category, so perhaps these are the result of the above process. Some Pennies clearly show a flat or a curved base and are easily to identify as such. I generally look at the "L's" first as they should show a distinct wave in the base if they are curved base letters. After you have looked through several thousand coins it becomes more easy. Cheers. |
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