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18* Silver 3-P With No End Date Found

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 Posted 10/23/2022  08:29 am Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add Az3 to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
Hi

I found a Threepence coin and there is no sign that any year date has been printed on that coin, only the 18 on the left of the coin next to the large 3. I would have assumed that it worn off as I found the coin in an old gold digging and had some black staining. Though after a clean and under magnification I can see and read everything else on the coin well, except the last two numbers of the year date

Is anybody aware of any 18? Young Victoria Threepence coins have any known printing errors on the year date?

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In order to be able to better help you, we will need a clear photo of both sides of the coin.
It is possible that it is a filled number or has been removed but would need photos to confirm.
Also coins are not printed, they are struck or minted. Currency is printed.
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@az3, first welcome to CCF. Second, sorry for all the changing around of subforums for your thread. I had moved you over to UK originally but then saw you were from Oz and figured that this coin must be Australian. Several members from that subforum mentioned that the date means it from the UK so I'm moving it back. Pics would def help. Thx!
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18*-Silver-3-P-With-No-End-Date-Found
The style of coin, you are alluding to?

First of all your coin, could date from any time from 1838 to 1887. However its likely to be 1870 or later as pre 1870 coins are scarce and heavily worn. Many 1830s and 1840s dates were for Caribbean and Malta only use and it was only really used in Britain after about 1855 when they discontinued the Britannia Groats (4d) which were the same size, but thicker than the 3d.

Also between 1863 and 1879, they did coining trials with the coin presses which dated from 1811 - 1820 and in 1873 - 1877 replaced all of the presses with ones that coined faster and with fewer errors.

Before around 1870, most coins were minted in lower quantities (Millions for bronze, and bare millions for silver), but after 1870 to stop the flood of tokens and overseas coins in the colonies, minting British coins for Britain (Whose population increased from 18 million in 1837 to 51 million by 1901) and the expanding empire became first priority and the chances of the coin being 1870s or 1880 - 1886 (1887 Young Heads are scarce or rare) is very high.

Because you can't see the date fully, its likely this coin is VG or worse and thus will only have scrap value sorry. For a 3d this is around $1.50.

I hope this helps.
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To answer the OP's question directly: no, there are no known "missing date errors" on threepences. A "missing date" is going to be the result of wear and/or damage.
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