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transtasman New Member New Zealand 33 Posts	Posted 10/28/2019 3:21 pm Hi I was just wondering if this is real bust? the detail seams lacking Report this Post to the Staff

kanga Pillar of the Community United States 5825 Posts	Posted 10/28/2019 3:40 pm why do you think it's dated 1935? Report this Post to the Staff
transtasman New Member New Zealand 33 Posts	Posted 10/28/2019 3:45 pm it says it on the front, does that mean this bust was used for other years? Report this Post to the Staff
PaddyB Pillar of the Community United Kingdom 945 Posts	Posted 10/28/2019 4:01 pm Something approaching this bust was used from 1928 to 1936 on British pennies, however yours looks all wrong and I would strongly suspect a fake, or at best a replica. Where did it come from? Report this Post to the Staff
transtasman New Member New Zealand 33 Posts	Posted 10/28/2019 4:20 pm just found it in a collection of mine, like you I suspected it to be course and undetailed, hence the question. Report this Post to the Staff
Hogarth Pillar of the Community United Kingdom 735 Posts	Posted 10/28/2019 5:11 pm Looks very much like the obverse of one of those bad 1933 fakes. Report this Post to the Staff
Coinfrog Bedrock of the Community United States 94367 Posts	Posted 10/28/2019 5:12 pm Could you show us the other side, please. to the CCF! Report this Post to the Staff
PaddyB Pillar of the Community United Kingdom 945 Posts	Posted 10/28/2019 5:12 pm Yes - it is the crude use of lines where there should be finely sculpted shapes that makes it look so false to me. Here is the head of my 1935 penny for comparison: Report this Post to the Staff
Sap Moderator Australia 16868 Posts	Posted 10/28/2019 6:14 pm I'm wondering if it's just been "tooled", rather than an outright fake - someone has taken a worn coin and "re-carved" new hair details etc onto the coin, to try to make it look less worn. Tooling is a sadly common practice with ancient coins, but one rarely sees it on modern coins - mainly because it's much more obvious when it happens. 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 Report this Post to the Staff
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