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Title: 1942 half penny
Post by: interest on July 16, 2013, 12:17:21 AM

Found this little beauty tonight.

(http://i208.photobucket.com/albums/bb22/interest88/1942_zpsd01c69a9.jpg)

Title: RE: 1942 half penny
Post by: markn on July 16, 2013, 05:35:13 AM

Long reverse denticles. Nice. Find that on eBay?

Title: RE: 1942 half penny
Post by: interest on July 16, 2013, 11:43:10 AM

Quote from: 'markn' pid='21627' dateline='1373918713'Long reverse denticles. Nice. Find that on eBay?

Main thing that attracted my attention is the dropped A in Australia,
friend gave me a bunch of pre-decimal coppers.

Title: RE: 1942 half penny
Post by: Fr45h3R on July 16, 2013, 03:13:06 PM

Is it safe to say a dropped 'A' is always a long reverse denticle as well?

Title: RE: 1942 half penny
Post by: Fordprefect on July 16, 2013, 04:46:00 PM

Quote from: 'Fr45h3R' pid='21657' dateline='1373953386'Is it safe to say a dropped 'A' is always a long reverse denticle as well?

That would be a yes.
The Type "D" reverse die was tooled in Bombay.

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