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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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Excitement quickly faded as I came to terms with the condition it was in Still a nice find anyway. :)
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Pillar of the Community
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Yes I agree, the chances of finding such an ancient coin in circulation must have been 40,000,000 to 1! I am almost willing to bet some collector accidentally added it in like say 5 or less years ago and because the weight of the 10 cent piece there is the same as shillings back to 1816 - it would pass unmolested in change.
Also even worn - there is at least $5 worth of silver in that coin!
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Bedrock of the Community
United Kingdom
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That's an amazing find! Even when I was sorting through bags of 5p coins for silver shillings in England in the 1970s, the oldest shilling I ever got was 1912 - I never found anything earlier than George V.
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Pillar of the Community
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30 years better than me, my oldest find was a worn 1942 shilling on September 30 2006, the last day of the old 10 cent coins and my shop was bombarded with several $100s of them.
I also stole that remark "Lowest of lowballs" off you NumisRob, you said that about my 1912 in the Australian thread and I just loved it.
Sorry for waffle post, I just have very few naff coins. I have an addiction to buying nice ones!!!!
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Pillar of the Community
 Australia
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chances of finding such an ancient coin in circulation must have been 40,000,000 to 1 I found that victorian shilling in a $100 bag of 10 cent coins freshly filled up by the coin machine at my local bank, so I had first dibs at finding it after someone fed it into the machine. Shilling is same weight and size as 10 cent coin so coin machine will gladly gobble it up. Bank happy to let me have bags off the coin machine because they didn't have to pay to order them in or ship them off.
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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1993 50 cent. Mintage just under 1 million. Still possibly Australia's lowest mintage circulating 50c.  |
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 United States
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1993 50 cent. Mintage just under 1 million. Still possibly Australia's lowest mintage circulating 50c. I almost did not recognize that at first! 
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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1985 10 cent. I don't think there are any decent examples left in circulation.  |
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United States
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1985 10 cent. I don't think there are any decent examples left in circulation. Nice example! 
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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Another rather sad-looking 2013 Coronation $2  |
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Pillar of the Community
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A lot of collectors would be happy with that. Yeah its a bit grubby, but its essentially high grade and purple survives well.
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United States
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Great find! |
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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Any condition purple coronation is worth more than face value. They are rare beasts these days.
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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2018 centenary of the Armistice $2. Mintage 1.6 million. Coloured coins usually aren't left in circulation long enough for them to get this tatty.  |
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United States
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Excellent! |
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