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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Member ANA - EAC - TNA - SSDC - CCT #890 "Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done." -- Louis D. Brandeis |
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Can you remove these from their 2x2's and take images from directly above the coins, As it is pretty much impossible to be able to give you an accurate grade from your images.
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Bedrock of the Community
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Will do so tonight.
Member ANA - EAC - TNA - SSDC - CCT #890 "Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done." -- Louis D. Brandeis |
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If I recall correctly, these silver coins were struck at U.S. mints because the government of Australia feared that they might be seized if Japan were to invade the country?
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If I recall correctly, these silver coins were struck at U.S. mints because the government of Australia feared that they might be seized if Japan were to invade the country? Yeah,lots of factors but I think one of the main reasons was Oz just didn't have the Silver,lots of it in the ground but mining resources were diverted to the war effort.Oz Govt.had to reimburse the US after the war and achieved that by melting previous currency and reducing the silver content in new mintings to achieve a surplus. Anyway that's what I read but every self appointed Coin & History expert has a different slant on events of the time. |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Member ANA - EAC - TNA - SSDC - CCT #890 "Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done." -- Louis D. Brandeis |
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Australia
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Many US servicemen returned home with some of these or similar.
Beautiful coins with a story.
In terms of value they are common dates even in high grade.
Watch your top knot
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07/17/2016 04:48 am
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Bedrock of the Community
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My grandfather was kind enough to leave me coins from France, Belgium, the Phillippines, Australia, Great Britain, and a little Italian 10c. coin + some bank-notes from France. (He was at Normandy after being stationed in the Pacific.)
From my other grandfather, I got lots of German coins from WWI and WWII, and also Austrian coins from WWI, and lots of Weimar inflation notes & some Notgeld.
Using US grading standards I would assign them AU50 for the shilling, AU55 and AU58 for the sixpence, and an easy MS63 for the threepence.
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Using US grading standards I would assign them AU50 for the shilling, AU55 and AU58 for the sixpence, and an easy MS63 for the threepence. I thought the sixpences would be better than that. One of them in particular looks to have full untoned mint loom on the reverse. |
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Posted 07/15/2016 11:24 pm
