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jpl Valued Member Australia 354 Posts	Posted 01/11/2014 11:29 pm Excellent Specimen/Pattern Coin wwwww jpl.. Report this Post to the Staff
Sap Moderator Australia 16834 Posts	Posted 01/12/2014 06:02 am Quote: Sap, how can the Holey Dollar make the list? There are over 100 still about. Wouldn't the halfpenny mule be a better example? It's there primarily for the "fame" aspect. And as I said my list didn't include "errors", the mule is disqualified as I classify mules as errors. Likewise the 1922/1 overdate threepence is disqualified as a "variety". If you look up "world's rarest coins" or "worlds most valuable coins" on Google, you'll find a bazillion websites all offering their own "top ten" lists. All these lists are different. Many of them include "condition rarities" - where people have paid top dollar for an otherwise fairly common coin in exceptional condition. I've tried to focus on coins that are super-rare and valuable, even in awfully beat-up condition. The Holey Dollar is one such coin. Quote: I am still trying to write down our Australian coin's. My list of Top Ten Australian rarities would look somewhat different: 1. gold sovereign 1920-S 2. silver Holey Dollar 1813 3. gold Adelaide Pound 1852 4. copper penny 1930 5. gold half sovereign 1855 6. silver Dump 1813 7. gold sovereign 1922-S 8. gold sovereign 1926-S 9. gold sovereign 1921-M 10 copper halfpenny 1923 Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis Report this Post to the Staff
jpl Valued Member Australia 354 Posts	Posted 01/12/2014 4:20 pm Sap Thankyou for excepting the project. With your World Top Ten I am Reading up on them, most of them I have never heard of & your Australian Top Ten I will accept too! A+++ jpl.. Ps, I don't think I could have done what You have here, I must have had a Lobotomy down the track that I Don't Remember]. Report this Post to the Staff
Henry M Smith Valued Member United States 337 Posts	Posted 01/12/2014 9:50 pm You got quite a few great examples. I must say I was a bit confused, since by count any singular issue, or better as one respondent indicated no longer existing issues, would be there, but I guessed value was implied, which makes this a difficult question indeed. But, how indeed can we be certain an example of a thought to be lost coin will never be unearthed? Report this Post to the Staff
Sap Moderator Australia 16834 Posts	Posted 01/12/2014 11:29 pm Quote: But, how indeed can we be certain an example of a thought to be lost coin will never be unearthed? We can't. The gold 200 mohurs I mentioned earlier disappeared sometime in the early 1800s; it might turn up again one day. The 316,000 1964 Peace dollars are all supposed to have been destroyed, but what if somebody souvenired one and has as yet never told anybody? We can't know such things; all such "rarity" lists can work from is what is known of surviving specimens today. But it is always a risk, that a coin worth big bucks today because it is "unique" might suddenly become much less valuable tomorrow when somebody digs up a bucketful of the things. A coin losing its "unique" status is not always bad news. There was a Roman coin of "Emperor Domitian II" found in France in 1900, stylistically dating from sometime around AD 270. No other coins of this emperor had ever been found before and there was no mention of such an emperor in any of the historical records of the period, so there was great debate about whether that coin might be genuine or not. Then somebody found a second one just ten years ago in England, under undeniably authentic archaeological conditions. That French coin has suddenly become much more valuable, now that its authenticity is no longer in doubt. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis Report this Post to the Staff
oh my florin Pillar of the Community Australia 1006 Posts	Posted 01/13/2014 01:12 am The 1964 Peace dollar I think exists a few people have confirmed it and PCGS has offered a reward to examine the said coin tho it would end up like the 1933 saint gaudens where the government manages to get it back which is the main reason why no one has shown it to anyone. Report this Post to the Staff
kg3594 New Member Australia 2 Posts	Posted 08/26/2014 02:01 am Hi Team I have found a 1920 dot above bottom scroll, english die. how do we class this coin. kg3594 Report this Post to the Staff
kg3594 New Member Australia 2 Posts	Posted 08/26/2014 02:03 am That is a 1920 penny. Kg3594 Report this Post to the Staff
ace_ftw Pillar of the Community Canada 1747 Posts	Posted 08/26/2014 03:08 am Don't forget the Canadian 1921 silver nickel ordered back from circulation and most were melted. Report this Post to the Staff
NumisRob Bedrock of the Community United Kingdom 17949 Posts	Posted 08/26/2014 5:43 pm One British coin that should be mentioned in this category is the 1945 silver threepence. 320,000 were minted but the entire issue is recorded as having been melted, as the 12-sided brass threepence was by now well established and the UK was preparing to abandon silver coinage altogether. There are persistent rumours that one or two 1945 silver threepences escaped the melting pot... My Trade List: https://goccf.com/t/194596 My Wants List: https://goccf.com/t/191710 Report this Post to the Staff
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