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Bedrock of the Community
Australia
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It looks raised to me. My suggestion is that it would be a minor die chip.
The purple patina intrigues me.
For some years, the the alloy had traces of gold in it. They never bothered to refine it out. Probably wasn't worth the expense to recover.
Gold, when finely divided, is purple like this.
There is a possibility that this could be a reason for the purple colour here.
AGW? Probabably 4/5ths of 5/8ths of almost nothing.
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New Member
 United Kingdom
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It looks raised to me.  |
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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I do shutdowns on mine sites Australia wide and nearly every one of them has a certain percentage of gold in the ore. Especially the Gold mines  but seriously a lot of copper mines have a minute amount of gold in their finished product. this would explain the purple in the coin. Great pic's buy the way  |
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New Member
United Kingdom
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When you look at it closely it looks like its shaped like cow.
Very strange.
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New Member
United Kingdom
10 Posts |
Dose a coin like this demand any value.
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
7096 Posts |
I regard the toning on this coin to be more valuable than the die flaw/crack
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New Member
United Kingdom
10 Posts |
The coin is actually a 1935 I must have made a type error. Here are two images of the reverse and obverse.   |
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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New Member
United Kingdom
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
7096 Posts |
It's a cleaning product made in the UK for cleaning brass and silver ( used to come in a wee tin with a screw lid)
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New Member
United Kingdom
10 Posts |
the coin has not been cleaned by me.
it came with various other dated coins from a family member.
but this is the only one that looks like this.
what makes you think its been cleaned.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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I suspect this is a lamination error--you can see it run across the reverse from 12:00 to 4:00.
The layer has peeled up around the E in ONE.
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Formerly nancyc
Australia
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I suspect this is a lamination error--you can see it run across the reverse from 12:00 to 4:00. The layer has peeled up around the E in ONE. I have to say  with DVCollector. The flaw only shows up fully in the 2nd picture.  So yep, error coin. Value, maybe a few $$$. life is a mystery to be lived not a problem to be solved
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New Member
United Kingdom
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thanks for everyone's input, its much appreciated.
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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The toning is very attractive with the purple, blue amd orange. Might be artificial but hard to tell and in the end who cares when it looks that awesome!
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