1925 Penny

Not possible to be less than ten years old it has lived in the same wardrobe all packed up with the others for over 30 years I just moved in here ten years ago and we haven't had them out of their box in that time. The camera does make it look brighter. I'll get an inside pic and see if it can look a bit more natural.

It may have been cleaned maybe 20 years ago when the original owner was still alive, doubt it would be acid wash. They were elderly dutch people. :-) Plus I live in country Tas so not sure of any coin dealers here but if anyone knows of any, let me know.

Wendy

Thanks much appreciated. I'll do that for sure. This collection and I mean I have a lot of penny's wrapped in brown paper, the the grandfather or grandmother would have done that themselves. Mostly in the 40's, 50's and 60's no 46's though lol or 30's. I have florins, some in lovely condition, 2 in particular are 1962 and have a gorgeous lustre, sixpence, threepence, shillings. They all look dull to me but I have no idea how to tell if it's good dull or bad dull lol.

I've known the collection was there but hadn't had the time to look through it. I'm not expecting that there is a lot of value in any of them singly but as a collection perhaps. It is a family house so these have been in here since the house was built 35 years ago for the grandmother and she has had them with her since her husband died just before the house was built. They were notorious for stashing money away but unfortunately I missed out on the cash being found everywhere lol. It will be a nice keepsake for the kids and a value would be good for insurance.

Thanks so much, for the input. Very much appreciated.
Wendy

Yep, that's fine. I'm not getting excited. I do realise the chances are it's been cleaned along the line or something anyway, and there is always a possibility he picked it up as a fake a long time ago. Better to know than not know. Unfortunately I just picked it up to put away with tomato on my finger and left a big thumbprint on it any way so that has probably killed any chance of value from the acid in the tomato. But it's okay. This will stay in the family, unless it were worth a million, it's more valuable as family heritage with the rest of them to us.

But I will still get what I have valued and documented so that we can insure.

Wendy

Also just noticed that from the angle view of the coin, it even looks thinner than a normal penny which would mean that it is underweight, typical for Chinese fakes

Yeah they have been since way back nowadays we have to distinguish from contemporary and modern fakes. On weight from the Museum Victoria site it says around 9.460g. I wouldn't be surprised about the same size and weight it is a valuable coin if genuine so the fakers will generally spend a lot of time trying to copy it detail for detail.

I am convinced that the coin it self is a fake and if I had to put money on it a modern fake and the brilliance which is really out of place for this date makes it seem very recent. I'd be betting on it being made in the last 15 years and assuming it was in a wooden wardrobe it would have well and truly toned brown if it were older than 15 years. My opinion tho.

, good luck with the '25 and remember to always be nice to the 'Mother in Law'.

It looks genuine imo but has been horribly cleaned. I couldnt see it being worth much more than $80.