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I seen the real stig car in Melbourne once, I was behind it, and I was like don't rear end the expensive car. It was travelling with another custom numberplate person. It was an Aston martin dark colour, wonder if they flew it over or just got a custom car done here.
Anyone can get plates with stig on them and pretend there special, the guy selling a red one.
Any way all his stuff is overpriced
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Formerly nancyc
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were these listed in replica's or were they listed in the normal coin section ? Unfortunately there's no way of knowing. All the sales are over 3 Mths old, and can't see the original listings. No current listings at all for gr8-coins. I might be unintentionally confusing people here. The original seller of this 1930 Fake was gr8-coins back on 1 March. It was listed then as a Replica/Copy. One of them was purchased by customnumberplates71, who then put it up for sale on ebay minus the fact that it was a fake, and it had bids up into the thousands of $$$$$ until it was reported and the sale was pulled. gr8-coins is not the focus of my follow up research, but all/any of the buyers that bought Replica/Copy coins from him, and who may be tempted to re-sell them hoping to lure in the naive bidders who wouldn't necessarily know how to spot a fake. I've checked all the ones that bought multiples and haven't found anyone else re-listing them, but until I've checked all the buyers of 'single' coins, we wont' know for sure that none of them have been 'recycled', and if they have a separate ID for ebay selling, there will be no way to keep track of where they end up and the coins history will be untraceable. customnumberplates71 only purchased 1, and decided to try his luck, but fortunately for one lucky person on ebay, his deception was spotted and halted. Looking at the feedback of a few of the other buyers, they seem to be buying enough stuff to stock an Antique shop, or maybe they on sell at Flea Markets, so it's highly likely there have been others duped by them, but not on ebay. I'll keep hunting, who knows what I'll turn up. life is a mystery to be lived not a problem to be solved
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A+ on the homework again nancy  |
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This one might be the real deal http://www.ebay.com/itm/1930-PENNY-...em3cc8e48439But, why list it on ebay? Buy it now price is around twice CV or make an offer. Reasonable photos but no photo of grading/certificate. Perhaps it is an exercise to see what interest there is. |
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That's the one.
Is it possible to see what price it fetched?
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hi jeff it was a unsold lot
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hi jeff it was a unsold lot
I guess that nobody wanted to pay good money for a penny with an arrow scratched into it  |
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In my opinion it is still worth maybe 10k  , even with the scratches ,it's still 10thousand times better than a fake 1930. I don't think the TPG would like it to much tho  good luck to the seller , he might find a gullible rich fool |
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The 1930 penny gained recognition fairly quickly after minting didn't it? Some of the coins have significant wear on them so must have circulated for quite some time. Imagine the look on someones face when they found that little beauty in circulation.
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My understanding is that after the 2nd world war coin collecting became more popular and it was then that people discovered that they had a hole in their collecions.
At the tme they could be bought from a dealer for just a few shillings.
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as I recall the story, the 1930 penny wasn't "discovered" by collectors until 1949: I may have to stand corrected on that. I look forward to someone clarifying that point. Mintage was published as "zero", and it took that long for someone knowlegable to notice one in her/his change: note to all Noodlers - let that inspire you in your labours.
When I was a kid, in the 1960s, and pennies were still in circulation, I recall seeing a few stories in the Melbourne Sun about people finding them in change. That inspired me: my Dad had a pub, and in the days of six o'clock closing, I was allowed to check the pennies in the till while dinner was being prepared. And 50 years later, I'm still checking my change ...
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Well if its wasnt discovered for 20 years that would explain it.
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When I was a kid, in the 1960s, and pennies were still in circulation, I recall seeing a few stories in the Melbourne Sun about people finding them in change. That inspired me: my Dad had a pub, and in the days of six o'clock closing, I was allowed to check the pennies in the till while dinner was being prepared. And 50 years later, I'm still checking my change ...
Thats correct, the Fairfax papers did a series of articles on coin collecting in the early 1960's,that was followed by Frank Packer's papers and collecting Oz coins really took off,almost a frenzy as the Govt. had signalled they would be withdrawing all Silver & Copper Coins in 1966 to be replaced by the new Decimal coinage.I did a paper run/route and always checked every coin,i still have them 50+years later. . Edited by Basil
07/21/2012 7:56 pm
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