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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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Hopefully someone can help confirm the existence of some of these coins - I collect Solomon Islands coins and the catalogues report a number of coins but in 4+ years of looking I have never seen examples or photos of the following:
1c 1989
2c 1989
5c 1980 (without mintmark)
5c 1987
5c 1989
20c 1978 (without mintmark)
20c 1987
Can anyone confirm that any of these coins exist?
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Bedrock of the Community
Australia
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Krause reports them as common coins. There is a possibility that what Krause says may be in error.
Franklin Mint did strike quite a few different dates and finishes in very low numbers. I have a few for New Guinea with mintages well below 1,000, but that does not necessarily mean that they have a big collector value.
The best way I can think of, is to search through the low value dealers' junk boxes. That is how I had much success in searching for World square coins - 88 different types and counting.
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Canada
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@mr.t, have you checked numista and the NGC world coin website?
When I was more heavily into world coin type collecting, I also noticed that many "cheap" coins in Krause could not be found, and I was a heavy searcher of junk boxes.
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06/08/2019 10:43 am
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I don't think that these and the Fijian coins come up much in pound lots...at least I haven't seen them.
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Pillar of the Community
 Australia
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I've been through a few junk-boxes and have only seem common-date Solomon Islands stuff.
What part of the NGC site? I've checked Numista without any luck.
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Bedrock of the Community
Australia
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NGC World coin values.
(takes it's information from Krause Standard Catalog of World Coins)
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Pillar of the Community
Belgium
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Pillar of the Community
Belgium
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Someone on another forum pointed out these are coins with FM-mintmark. They are so tiny I missed them.
So, I am sorry I cannot solve any of your problem coins...
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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Yeah the Franklin Mint ones are well known for those years but I've never seen the supposed no mintmark types.
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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Time for a revisit - anyone seen them since?
I'm told that a few of these coins only appeared in catalogues later (apparently they weren't in the 1994 Krause) which makes suspicious that they don't exist.
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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Anyone happened to come across one of these coins in a junk box or hiding in their collection? I suspect that not all of them exist but some probably do.
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Australia
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The Royal Mint has no 1978 no mintmark 20c in their collection so I'm inclined to believe that it doesn't exist.
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Posted 06/08/2019 05:24 am
