Aussie Rarities

Now that's just wasteful, Mark. It takes three 1930 pennies, but you would only have to use one of your Adelaide Pounds to do the same job! Or at the very least, use some of your spare 1923 half-pennies, much more economical that way!

Hello Mac, welcome to the forum. The answer depends upon a number of factors as the 1906 Sovereign was minted in 4 different mints. London with a mintage of 10,466,981, Sydney 2,792,000, Melbourne 3,657,853 and Perth 4,803,230. Keep in mind mintage figures do not indicate survival rates.

Value is also determined by the amount of wear the coin has. Even the slightest amount of wear on a coin that is only visible under 5 - 10X magnification can devalue it. McDonald's 14th edition lists the Perth Mint as most valuable at $300 for almost uncirculated and $500 for uncirculated. The 1906 Melbourne and Sydney have a book value of around $275 for aUnc and $375 for UNC. Considering the mintage of the London (no mintmark) sovereign it would probably be only worth the price of gold, about $190, plus a little.

The mintmark can be found just above the date on the reverse (horse and dragon) of the coin as either P, M, S or no mintmark (London).

Hope this helps.

No problem! I shall send you all my 1930 pennies, 1923 half pennies, Adelaide pounds, 1855 half sovereigns, 1932 florins, NSW holey dollars and dump etc.

Going by the pictures (because that's all I will ever see of one) I think the Adelaide Pound is the nicest looking rarity. The most ugly would be the NSW dump. That is a coin by the way, although "dump" is a pretty good word for it Lol.

Apparently there's only about 350 Holey dollars and 1500 dumps still left in existence with many of those badly worn. Even a Holy dollar in "Fine" is $65,000!

The ebay ones sound like 2003 RAM commemorative reproductions.

Hi can anyone tell me how much a Aussie 1924, 1927, 1931 indian drop 1 in F+ to VF are worth. I,m looking at selling due to hard times and not sure where and how best to sell them.

I would be very interested too. From what I've read, this coin is very rare--but I keep hoping one will turn up at a show.

All three coins previously mentioned are the indian dies, (N's) pointing at the denticals around the rim. Not your common coins!When I work this computer stuff out i'll try putting picture on forum. I've been collecting varieties for a couple of years now and was lucky enough to get all four 1931 die types in an album I bought cheap as. I sold my prize and joy rare mazda RX-3 coupe and blew most of the money, but picked up this album with what was left. Was that a good deal?

Well I saw a damaged dropped 1 indian go at a show a couple of years ago for over $1000 so I'd say you probably did just fine.