Australia 1930 Penny Information

3,000 or so genuine examples thought to exist.

I would guess that perhaps ten times? as many high quality fakes may exist. There has been an explosion in numbers of high quality fakes, mainly from China.

This questionable coin needs to be pictured again, but not under clear plastic. Also harder to to examine on screen pictures, rather than the actual coin.

For a more authoritative answer, you may wish to take it to Downies or other recognized professional coin dealer of high standing.

It is around the date that most of the examination effort is needed.
Shape of the '3' doesn't look quite right to me, but need better focused pictures to form a good opinion, if the metal in this area has been interfered with.

The first thing to look at even before the obvious date manipulation is the Obverse,if its English like this one its 99.9% sure to be a fake.

http://blog.perthmint.com.au/2012/0...g-a-forgery/

Don't suppose you could give us a close-up of the date area?

By 1970 as a young man,
I completed a type set of Australian pre decimal bronze and silver made up with the rarest date for type.
Included a '23 Halfpenny, a '39 Roo, a Melbourne Centenary, a '46 Penny, a '33 Shilling, a star '21 shilling, and a '32 Florin.

Except for the 1930 Penny. (substituted a 1925).

Even then, I knew that there existed comparatively few genuine 1930's, as compared to the huge proportion of excellent fakes.