Most underrated pre decimal coin & most overrated coin

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I recall something about the 1929 Indian obverse Penny only being produced using one die pair with an estimated mintage of 50,000. If this is correct it could be seen as underrated, particularly in high grade.

Hi, by chance today Fred (Lever) sent me an updated version of his list of the rarest penny varieties for me to pull apart. Got me questioning if the '29 Indian would make the tail end of the scarce coins.
So I pulled 43 pennies from my stash that were dated 1929. They are reasonably random average circulated coins collected over about 7 years in Sydney and there were 22 English and 21 Indian.
With 2.5 million minted that year that makes it likely that over a million had the Indian obverse so nowhere near scarce.
Took me a few minutes to identify at least 3 die pairs. That claim for a single die pair is wrong.

There's no denying three birds in the hand nealeffendi. Sounds like you have busted that myth :good: