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Worst Australian Florin

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 Posted 03/23/2013  9:11 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add robster to your friends list
Worst-Australian-Florin
1946.!
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03/23/2013 9:12 pm
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 Posted 03/23/2013  9:19 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add trout1105 to your friends list
What is the obverse like Rob?
So far yours is worse than mine
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 Posted 03/23/2013  9:42 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add robster to your friends list
Completely green- undecipherable image- just put the camera away but will post a pic. tomorrow if it comes down to a "Ugly Off"
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 Posted 03/23/2013  9:45 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add trout1105 to your friends list

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Completely green- undecipherable image- just put the camera away but will post a pic. tomorrow if it comes down to a "Ugly Off"

So maybe your could be a lower grade
Say "Only a Mother would love it" grade
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 Posted 03/23/2013  9:49 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add robster to your friends list
It is that green it could only be a Mother Frog.!!
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 Posted 03/24/2013  12:06 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add texta to your friends list
pick one mine are all bad ( metal detector finds )


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 Posted 03/24/2013  12:22 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add bellyflorin to your friends list
hahaha they would sell on ebay , give them a clean and call them a error coin ,put a sob or bs story in the listing , they will sell like hot cakes, I am so bad,why I'm so cynical today
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 Posted 03/24/2013  01:30 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add sel_69l to your friends list
texta: All MD finds! How about doing it in the same way as in the mining industry:
Hire an aircraft, and do a magnetometer survey. trout would appreciate THAT approach!

Or maybe get the Navy to use one of their Orion aircraft with a MAD boom in the tail. Just remember to have the discriminator circuits switched on, otherwise you will only find submarines. They don't have much numismatic value.
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03/24/2013 01:33 am
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 Posted 03/24/2013  01:38 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add texta to your friends list
eldest sons already done all that .
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 Posted 03/24/2013  01:39 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add enworb to your friends list
Funny you mention the Orion Sel because we had one flying circles over our house for about 30 minutes yesterday. I read it had returned from 10 odd years service in the middle east and they were putting on a bit of a parade. Perhaps not too special for someone living near a RAAF base but it isn't something you see everyday in suburban Adelaide.
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 Posted 03/24/2013  02:23 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add sel_69l to your friends list
I'll betcha they weren't looking for two bobs!

Orions are serviced at Richmond, but are based at Edinburgh.
I have been involved with corrosion control chemistry with these aircraft.

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From the previous pictures, it seems quite apparent to me which florins are .500 fine and which are .925 fine.
The alloying metals in the .500 fine coins are copper 40% nickel 5%, and zinc 5%. I think that is this complex alloy that gives rise to the greater extent and complexity of the patinas on the .500 coins.
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 Posted 03/24/2013  02:53 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add trout1105 to your friends list

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Orions are serviced at Richmond, but are based at Edinburgh.
I have been involved with corrosion control chemistry with these aircraft.

My late Father was in the RAF and I recon these planes have been around since I was a boy
Great sturdy aircraft, the modern day equivalent of the old DC3
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 Posted 03/25/2013  8:30 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add robster to your friends list
Worst-Australian-Florin
Trout, here is the Obverse, I doubt if even Mother Teresa would love this one.
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 Posted 03/25/2013  8:33 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add trout1105 to your friends list
That is an absolute shocker Rob
Looks like yours is even uglier than mine
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 Posted 03/26/2013  05:23 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add MobOfRoos to your friends list
Rob I think you might have a slight verdigris problem there. Have you tried dipping it in olive oil?

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