1928 Penny Broken 8 Variety

trout · July 10, 2015, 10:04:46 AM

I was looking at a few coppers and noticed this one, is it a known "variety" ?

stevo1962 · July 10, 2015, 10:54:20 AM

IT's definately a known variety and would think it's quite common as I've had a few over
the years and they didn't seem to stir up much interest when I was selling them

Fordprefect · July 10, 2015, 11:07:26 AM

Quote from: 'trout' pid='75447' dateline='1436488486'I was looking at a few coppers and noticed this one, is it a known "variety" ?

Yes :- http://www.australian-coins.net/showthread.php?tid=1103&highlight=1928+penny

robbiegal · July 10, 2015, 12:06:40 PM

nice grade too

trout · July 10, 2015, 01:02:12 PM

Quote from: 'robbiegal' pid='75451' dateline='1436495800'nice grade too

Yes not too "shabby"

It has two other breaks on the "2" and also the top of the "8", the second "N" is weak legged but I cant find a dot before the "P" in PENNY.

A few more pics.

weak "N"

no dot

8 pearls and a Centre diamond

robbiegal · July 10, 2015, 03:54:42 PM

they vary
Fordie knows more than me about them

Nevol · July 11, 2015, 07:02:01 AM

Some of those 1928 Pennies can have quite a lot of 'bits' of the letters or numbers missing.

I think I remember the most 'missing bits' from one coin was 9, that was on the old ACBO forum and I think the poster was QldSandy.

There're some lists of the known 'missing bits' in some earlier posts in this thread. :biggrin:

MattGold · July 21, 2015, 09:24:57 AM

I'll quickly add this one, last year sometime I was in an auction bidding on a broken 8 variety and noticed something a tad different with the coin. It was missing part of the bottom scroll. Bidding ended up going higher than I wanted to pay for it but thinking back, I haven't seen another one since.

robbiegal · July 21, 2015, 05:29:56 PM

humm
I don't have too many but I will have a look through mine
Fordie knows heaps about this error - perhaps he can enlighten us!