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Edited by appleangel07
02/07/2012 10:59 pm
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Australia
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I would not put $950 on such a coin especially not from a sound dealer.
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Bedrock of the Community
Australia
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Why wasn't the edge of the 20 Cent photographed?
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Pillar of the Community
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Exactly,if I were trying to sell such a coin i'd have at least 6 to 10 photo's,both sides,edge shots & every angle I possibly could.
1 photo of one side of such a coin does not sell a $1750 coin.
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The funny thing about the brockage is that it is theoretically impossible for both sides of the coin to be brockage (even if it was a brockage against another coin). I highly doubt that it is actually real. A big possiblity is that it is two seperate coin photos. Bizaar. As for the 20 cents...MORON One of his previous listings for an Error Note: http://www.ebay.com/itm/270885299345& who's to say that a bit of acetone, acid or bleach was used in this process. |
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Pillar of the Community
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It looks to me like the 1c and halfpenny have had similar coins hammered onto them to create the imprints. The 5c looks alright, though I'm not completely sure.
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On the "5 cent" coin all the writing is in reverse.
This is clearly just a metal disc which has probably been placed in a vice between two 5 cent pieces.
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Pillar of the Community
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There is good reason for the ? behind the title of this thread,will be back soon with concrete evidence of how these are done.
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Pillar of the Community
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When I was looking through that sellers item I thought they have put another coin on top of the coin for sale & hit it with a hammer or something heavy,so I went & got an old 2 cent coin & an old 1 cent coin,i sat the 2 cent on a solid piece of wood then placed the 1 cent on top of the 2 cent & hit the one cent with a hammer,this is the result.   AS pointed out back there ^^^^ the 5 cent in that listing is a blank planchet that has had a real 5 cent smacked into both sides of it. |
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Appleangel: How did the other side fare? A nice flat spot?
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Pillar of the Community
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Yeah,it strectched the metal that much it almost tore iykwim,i think I hit it to hard as it cut in a fair bit.
A press or vice was probably used for those ones back up there ^^^,someones tool shed errors anyway.
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goatieman,what is the coin in your avi,a threepence but is it a broadstrike or something else,i can't quite make it out pproperly. BTW your solid 7's & 8 digit radar first prefix note are superb & if I had the coin they would be mine LOL  |
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It is the obverse of a 1958 Threepence. This particular coin I believe is a broadstrike brockage. It's diameter is 17mm instead of 16mm. I purchased it from ebay maybe three years ago as a mistrike. It cost $32.51 plus postage at the end of the auction. I was what I consider to be one of my first little gems. Now I just spend too much. I can't let cheap broadstrikes or brockages pass me. I'll start a brockage post today if I get a chance to photograph them. As for http://www.ebay.com/itm/37057539188....m1438.l2649, I'm still trying to work it out. It doesn't make much sense because the reverse/brockage letters do not at all overlap the obverse letters. I'm wondering how it could possibly have been struck, because even as a double-struck coin, it doesn't make much sense to me. |
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