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Posted 03/19/2018 06:26 am
Hi CoinOS
Wire rims are also fairly common on the 1927 Canberra florin. I also agree that some other dates and denominations can be found with wire rims. The suspect coins however have a rim profile unlike normal wire rims, they have a rim, then drop and then rise to a sharp rim,
Even so I would not call that feature definitive proof of a fake coin (there may be a couple of examples of genuine coins with that feature, possibly something I'll cover later after more research, but they are not shillings). When Echidna gave the warning about the dodgy rims I checked my suspect shillings and found several with that feature, then I louped them looking for die markers and only then was I certain that they were fakes. My suspect threepence is certainly dodgy as it was the same seller as 5 of my shillings and from the same reverse as the one you were interested in.
Wire rims are also fairly common on the 1927 Canberra florin. I also agree that some other dates and denominations can be found with wire rims. The suspect coins however have a rim profile unlike normal wire rims, they have a rim, then drop and then rise to a sharp rim,
Even so I would not call that feature definitive proof of a fake coin (there may be a couple of examples of genuine coins with that feature, possibly something I'll cover later after more research, but they are not shillings). When Echidna gave the warning about the dodgy rims I checked my suspect shillings and found several with that feature, then I louped them looking for die markers and only then was I certain that they were fakes. My suspect threepence is certainly dodgy as it was the same seller as 5 of my shillings and from the same reverse as the one you were interested in.
