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Pillar of the Community
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Edited by markn
05/25/2009 10:33 pm
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Australia
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Nice pickup Markn, very nice condition. And way to go on the overdates, these seem to have risen a bit in price lately too, so well done spotting them in the books.
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Very nice!  I've found a few here in California--but not in this grade. Quote:
There were also an handful of 33/32 overdate pennies I managed to find in dealers stock books that they'd missed, best one was just 50c. Wow!  And that's one of the more obvious overdates--on any coin I know. |
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Yes the overdates are an easy coin to pick, but dealers have thousands of coins and are only human, they're bound to miss some. I didnt find one 34/33 3d despite looking at lots of coins so no-one missed one of those.
I have a 42I 1/2d long reverse denticle coin slabbed as MS63 by NGC that I was happy to spot on Northeast Numismatics a few years back for very little. It is, as far as I know, one of the best of the type in existence.
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California must be the dumping ground for Aussie coins Kurt, you have found some real beauties in the time I have been here at CCF.
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Sean, yes--I suspect it must have something to do with the military, and people returning with coins after tours of duty?  To date, this may be my favorite find--for all of $1.50  So I'm hoping I'll find that 1966 wavy 2.  |
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Australia
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Nice coin Kurt. What do you grade it? I can only make it out as AU from those images, but it appears to have lovely colour so it could well be UNC. The reverse appears extremely well struck. I got the coin below in a plastic bag with 6 other coins that were mostly covered in verdigris from a seller in the US for $13.50 for the lot shipped to Australia. All on the basis of one blurry tiny image. Sometimes you win sometimes you lose, this time I won, it ended up slabbing as PCGS MS62.  |
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Thanks Mark, I think it's a solid AU--but perhaps better? It doesn't seem far off from your 1919--very nice pickup on that one! |
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Hi Kurt,
It's very hard to pick between wear on the crown and just weak strike, especially from an image. I can tell from your small pics that yours has better definition in the crown that my 1919 plain. That being said, the 1919 plain pennies are typically very poorly struck. Mine is technically uncirculated but if you were to use old Australian grading standards (or English standards) it probably wouldn't be more than EF or AU. That being said there's no rub on it, the moustache shows good definition and there's no break in the even brown colour over the high points.
Yours may well be UNC, the colour looks good over the moustache and crown. Either way I'd think about sending that coin into PCGS. Slabbing is picking up some momentum down here and getting that coin into the right plastic could add considerable value to it.
Mark
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G'Day Mark,nice pick up at a coin show mate as for me I haven't been to one yet,not to sure on where to get the show information though I'll be at the coin shop latter today to pick up the second coin in the Great Battle's series so I'll ask there. Thanks for posting mate.  |
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Pillar of the Community
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The Australian Coin and Banknote magazine lists all the upcoming shows in each edition.
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