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United States
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 United States
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Nice. You would think they would have a best offer choice. John1  |
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United States
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How does that even happen? Did we mint coins for other countries too? I don't see how that planchet could even make it into the mint otherwise.
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Australia
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Denver and SF have certainly minted .925 silver coins for Australia!
They have also made planchet errors like
using wartime nickel planchets (too small) for Australian Florins.
Edited by sel_69l
05/13/2015 07:47 am
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Canada
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The wartime 1/10 Guldens were mintmarked P for Philadelphia and S for San Francisco. The 1/4 Guldens are closer in size to a dime but has a slightly larger diameter. I don't know why they weren't minted in Uthrect like the earlier issues.
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 United States
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The US Mint did coinage for many countries, so a few that got caught in the chamber get mixed up with lacking of quality control during war periods, quite a few just got out. The ebay seller has a lot of error coins with steep price, but if the collector must have it, then sky the limit. |
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Australia
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The silver 1/10G, 1/4G, 1G and 21/2G issued for the Netherlands East Indies (latterly Indonesia) were minted in the U.S., because the Utrecht Mint had been taken over by the Nazis during WW2.
Utrecht Mint was still used, but struck base metal homeland coinage only, under Nazi control and had different designs during this period.
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United States
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Cool piece and relatively cheap in comparison to the much celebrated, much publicized, 1943 off-metal cents from that era. I have to shake my head at the seller though. Why not post some history on the piece?
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Canada
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Thanks sel. As someone who didn't learn about recent world history I find it interesting how things and events are linked together one way or the other.
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United States
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If it wasn't authenticated I would think it was just an off center or something. I wonder how they knew what it was and where it came from. Price is really, really excessive.
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United States
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Sorta reminds me of a Roman denarius or old Greek coin, with its offcenter strike and missing legends.
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05/13/2015 4:20 pm
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