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Proof Like Canberra Florin

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 Posted 10/08/2015  04:38 am Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add trout1105 to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
I picked up a pl Canberra on numisbid and I get home tomorrow and I will see it "in hand" for the first time, I am rather looking forward to that event

Here is the numisbid listing, I will post my own images when I get home.
As far as I am aware this particular coin is uneque.

http://www.numisbid.com.au/Browse/1...MS63PL/17707
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 Posted 10/08/2015  07:33 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add chequer to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Stunning looking coin.
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A genuine full three stepper!
Even with genuine proof PH two bobs, they are difficult to find. Looks like a very early strike off fresh dies, and yet never circulated.
This is quite a rare coin; I suspect that the price realised ($1,000) may have been too low.

I have examined a genuine proof PH two bob alongside a gem unc (MS65++) in two lots, at public auction view day. Neither of these two coins was a genuine three stepper.

Well done, ole fella!
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10/08/2015 08:02 am
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This actually only cost me $750 as the highest bidder made a mistaken bid
I have never heard of one of these let alone seen one before.
I couldn't log in on auction night an I was devistated at first when I saw that I had been out bid then I got an email from Walter explaining what had happened on the night and that my $750 proxy bid had secured the coin for me

Definitely a "One off" coin and for a Canberra Florin apreciator a jewel in the crown
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I have just got home and took a couple of rushed images of the Proof Like Canberra Florin I won on Numisbid.
I haven't managed to capture the colour on this coin but the fields are Outstanding.
Lots of die polish marks tho.

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 Posted 10/10/2015  09:53 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add trout1105 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply


This image shows the steps better

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That last image is heaps better - I can almost see Gough Whitlam standing there in 1975! Did you get a clear shot like that of the obverse?
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That is absolutely gorgeous! At least in my view, it's perfect.
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