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Welcome to the forum Bunny_Coins!  Looking at the photos I would say that the first coin is just badly worn whilst second coin his taken a hit, so PMD (Post Mint Damage). |
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 To the CCF I agree, just wear and damage, not an error. |
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to the Community! |
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Australia
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On the first coin, if the rim is in tact, would it be considered to be a strike through?
Are there ways or signs on a coin to tell the difference?
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@Schoza yes there is for strike through first that one is not because the edges are worn away, usally the weight will be exactly the same as the normal coin, details will be smudgy but very crisp on a new coin. Also like you said the rim will be intact. the second coin I'm not sure, but its probably also PMD however not sure how it was made. |
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I'm sure someone has posted a similar 50c piece before and I think the consensus was damage (I think the teeth/raised lines are the give-away - there's no part of 50c piece production that would have that pattern).
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Hello and welcome. Coin number 1 is severely worn, and the weight reduction is what one might expect for such a worn coin. I've seen 1800s British coins that circulated here for decades, and old silver coins, that were this severely worn, but not a modern decimal coin. Al-bronze coins do not "wear" like this in normal circulation; this is probably a "pocket piece" that someone carried around with them for years, deliberately wearing it down, or perhaps it was placed in an industrial dryer or gem-polisher and tumbled about for a long time. The second coin looks like post-mint damage; my guess would be a "vise job", the "teeth-marks" being caused by the vise, or pliers, or whatever tool was used to grip the coin. That shouldn't have made it lose weight, however, unless a piece of metal has actually been torn off it. 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
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Cheers lads, so weight is the first step in determining error, from what I read today, rim can be deceptive if someone used an eye dropper with acid, mr t, is that your website, very informative. sap do you seriously find 1800 coins in circulation, that is awesome, I'm over the moon when I find a 1972 5c, if I found 1872 coin I think I would fall over lol
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No, I'm talking about coins from the mid-1800s, that were still in circulation here in Australia up until the 1920s - long after they would have been withdrawn from circulation in Britain due to being too worn or damaged. But here in the colonies, we needed every coin we could get.
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
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Sap, so you have found 1800 coins in Australia while you were noodling, or are you talking about before decimal coins came into play
Edited by Schoza
12/22/2018 04:42 am
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Before decimal coins came into play - even in the 1920s you could find really worn old British stuff here in Australia.
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wow, Mr T did you keep them?
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Much before my time but I'm told you'd occasionally notice them by their slightly different feel.
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