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Valued Member
Australia
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What do you think? Is it a 2008 20 cent 'gap'?  |
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
518 Posts |
Can you get a close up on it? Quite hard to tell from there.
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Valued Member
Australia
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It certainly appears to be.
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Valued Member
 Australia
122 Posts |
Unfortunately this is the best I can do, I'm unsure how to get a larger closeup.  |
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
518 Posts |
Take a closeup with your camera? I can't tell if it is a gap or if it is just worn out from this photo.
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Valued Member
Australia
122 Posts |
Aarong - I took a nice close up with the camera but am unable to post it. The image optimizer won't accept it due to it's size. Sorry I'm not all that good with these things! :)
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Valued Member
Australia
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It could be one but a clearer close-up image would be needed to make sure. The gap doesn't appear as large as some I have seen (but it may just be the photo and the dirty coin). It's hard to tell if there is fine detail at the end of the swirl that still 'closes the gap'. As indicated by Jeff in the tread below there are variations of the 2008 20c gap. https://goccf.com/t/60312#473867The above tread has some good photos and descriptions of the 2008 20c variations available. If you compare it to a normal 2008, a large gap (option 4) are easy to tell as the gap is quite noticeable through direct comparisons and the end of the swirl is pretty blunt from what I have seen. There are others who may be able to help more, particularly Jeff. |
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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b_j_w_79's advice to compare with others is good; the others don't even have to be 2008 -any recent year will have the same reverse as a normal 2008. Also, view it against the light and rock it back and forwards. A full, clear gap will show the gap at any angle. A normal coin will show touching at any angle (can be a sharp point touch or quite broad width). A partial gap will look like a full gap at some angles and will show a "whisker" across the gapo to the head at other angles. The following pic. is one I prepared for my ebay listings of these coins (have some on this week). Jeff  |
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Valued Member
Australia
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Here we are - took me a while but I managed to get a decent up close pic. Thanks for the post Jeff - I do believe I have found a 'gap'!  |
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Valued Member
Australia
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Looks pretty good to me. Nice photo! (I know how hard they can be to get right)
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Formerly nancyc
Australia
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Yep!  You got one all right!  It appears you really like the error coins as much as I do!  life is a mystery to be lived not a problem to be solved
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Valued Member
Australia
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Yes I found the trick to a nice photo, day light rather than artificial light seems to help :) And Nancy, I am addicted! I'm trying not to bombard the forum with my posts! I will have to pull out some of my foreign coins and get some much needed info on them soon.
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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I concur with the positive opinions Jeff |
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Valued Member
Australia
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addiction is fine. It is when it gets uncontrollable then it is a problem ;-)
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Valued Member
Australia
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Is uncontrollable sitting on the floor for 6 hours sorting through coins, four days running (and counting). Maybe uncontrollable is running in the door from work and sitting on this website untill bed? Today I asked a client if I could go through his change! Is there a section for help with this addiction?!
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Posted 10/02/2011 07:44 am
