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Pillar of the Community
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I took some pictures of this coin we pulled out of a roll the other day intending to post them up here. However, PP has beaten me to it and written a neat article on our blog about it. Here's the coin:   And here's her excellent article on it. http://www.australian-threepence.co...ixpence.html |
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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Very Nice PP & Mark  |
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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 A very clear clash on a beautiful coin illustrated with a beautiful photo  |
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Formerly nancyc
Australia
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Lovely Coin! Even more lovely clash!  life is a mystery to be lived not a problem to be solved
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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Oh cool you can see the queens face amongst the coat of arms
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Pillar of the Community
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Last night I was sorting through my Penny collection, and stumbled upon a 1950 penny that I had set aside for some reason in the past  Investigating this further, I found that this is a nice example of a "die clash". King George VI's head is clearly showing through the reverse design. Interestingly, the die clash signature is less distinct than that shown in markn 1963 sixpence. I wonder why ?  . Pic is attached. Squire  |
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Last night I was sorting through my Penny collection, and stumbled upon a 1950 penny that I had set aside for some reason in the past
Investigating this further, I found that this is a nice example of a "die clash". King George VI's head is clearly showing through the reverse design.
Interestingly, the die clash signature is less distinct than that shown in markn 1963 sixpence. I wonder why ? .
Pic is attached.
Nice If you look closely you can see the kings entire face except where the roos tail hides his nose. Markins coin is more distinct because it is of a far higher grade than your penny and everything is so much clearer on an uncirculated coin. This definitely a nice clash tho |
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Nice find Squire. You have to know what you are looking for to pick these errors up. The markings you use on the photos are a great educational tool to help others learn what to look for.
TCH
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Pillar of the Community
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Thanks for the feedback trout1105 and TheCoinHunter Actually, I learned the technique of "mirroring" the coin and then annotating the "clash" on the opposite side from a previous "Coin Community Family" post. I agree, this is a great educational tool. And many coin dealers have big trays of Pennies and Halfpennies to browse through. So this is a rich "prospect" for finding similar coins  . I will certainly keep my eyes open in future. Squire |
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Squire I am pretty certain that your coin isn't clashed. It's what is known as ghosting. This occurs pretty commonly on George vi coins. It happens because of the metal flowing into the obverse die leaving a soft 'ghosted' image of the portrait. There's a good discussion of ghosting here: http://www.24carat.co.uk/frame.php?...edpenny.htmlEdited by markn
06/10/2012 06:14 am
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Squire I am pretty certain that your coin isn't clashed. It's what is known as ghosting. This occurs pretty commonly on George vi coins. It happens because of the metal flowing into the obverse die leaving a soft 'ghosted' image of the portrait. There's a good discussion of ghosting here:
If you believe that to be the case with this penny then your sixpence is in the same category. As the clash on the sixpence doesn't penetrate the reverse design either at any point. Just saying. |
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Trout, look at the roo's back in front of the rear legs, you can clearly see that metal has flowed into the obverse design from there. This shows it's not a die clash, because, as you rightly pointed out, the flow *is* occurring in the reverse design. The same cannot be said of the 6d.
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06/10/2012 06:56 am
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Trout, look at the roo's back in front of the rear legs, you can clearly see that metal has flowed into the obverse design from there. This show's it's not a die clash, because, as you rightly pointed out, the flow *is* occurring in the reverse design. The same cannot be said of the 6d.
Well pointed out Mark, I tend to agree. That penny has such a nice ghost but |
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Pillar of the Community
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Yes, you're right. As far as ghosted pennies go, that's a corker.
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they are some very cool clashes. I like that you can clearly make out the head.
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Posted 05/14/2012 07:11 am
