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New Member
United States
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Edited by Rwichy
03/14/2013 10:47 pm
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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The design looks pretty convincing. The weight is pretty close and may well be your scales out a little. The diameter is spot on.
The colour is strange but possibly from poor storage. The 1932 obverse has some strange little bumps on the rim below GEOR which look suspiciously like metal poor points. The coin doesn't look cast but those little lumps concern me a little.
All up I think they look OK.
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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Sorry mate although the weight and the diameter look right I dont think the coins are real most notably because of their worn condition but if you have a look at the rims they are perfect showing no signs of genuine wear. Could be wrong though? hope you didnt pay to much for them?
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Enworb
Sorry I do not know how to reply a specific member... Thank you for your comments! The 1932 coin has a light dark toning, more accurate on the 3rd picture. The other pictures have light on and change to a little bit yellow. But I totally agree with you on the little bumps on the rim could be suspicious, but I do not know if that happens normally.
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New Member
United States
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oh my florin: Thank you! Could you explain more about "no sign of genuine wear on rim"? I am not quite knowledgeable on that..
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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I agree with enworb that those bumps on the 1932 are cause for suspicion.
I think what oh my florin is saying is that the rims look much less worn than you'd expect for such circulated coins.
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Valued Member
Australia
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All is not lost; in your initial post you state you collect Chinese coins. You may have, by chance, collected two more ;)
That said, I can't comment on their authenticity.
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Pillar of the Community
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Pillar of the Community
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That would be my 'two bobs' worth.!!  |
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I dont think the coins are real most notably because of their worn condition but if you have a look at the rims they are perfect showing no signs of genuine wear. Rwichy, before you throw away these coins. I've just checked a few of my worn KGV florins (from different sources) and many of them look the same as yours. In fact all of them had the same looking rims. So I am prepared to call your coins as genuine |
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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Having has a second look I would also be leaning towards genuine.
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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Hey sorry for the long reply been away since friday. what I mean by no genuine wear on the rims is tthat generally a coin which is heavily worn like these ones nearly always have dents or nicks on the rims which are easily visible but yours show abosolutely no signs of this and from what I have heard of fake coins is that they arnt trying to imitate the higher grade coins which you can easily see parts of the design missing (which is only attributed to being a fake) but instead they are making these coins but then making them seem as if they have been worn (resulting in a higher chance of passing them on).
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New Member
United States
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MobOfRoos, enworb, oh my florin
Thank you for your comments! I will keep the coins and probably send them to third party grading later.
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Bedrock of the Community
Australia
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These coins have been been out of circulation for a long time, you would not expect otherwise. Toning has developed over the whole of the coins evenly since then.
I would think that if you did a comparative ring tone test, you should find them 'spot on'.
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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G'day Rwichy, I hope you can understand the 'caution' that the other members are expressing here as the 1932 would have to be one of the most copied coins in the influx of copy coins coming from China. Below are some pics I grabbed from a chinese site not that long ago .... How would you like your florin ..... lustred or toned. (Probably won't be long until they have them complete with verdigris).   |
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Hi sel_69l, thank you for your suggestion!
Other than the 1932 and 1933 coins, I also have a 1910 Florin. All of these coins are obtained from different sources during my collection. I tried the ring tone test and they are sound the same to me. I personally believe that they are made of same metal.
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