A 1000+ year old Australian Penny

[enworb]

Minted in the year 962

[JeffH]

I will have two of those please. Please quote a price.
And I am really seeking a "930" one too.

Jeff

[enworb]

I actually have a second one here very similar. The 1 is just visible, being not quite as weakly struck.

[lacey]

That's amazing.  I don't think I have ever seen a coin with one number absolutely missing.  usually you can see even a tiny bit, but this one just isn't there at all.  

Good find Enworb

[enworb]

I have a 5c and 20 which are both missing the date entirely. I know they were minted between 66 and 84 but other than that I have no idea. I also have a 1966 1c which has the 1 in the date missing completely. I suppose that's another 1000 year old coin

[Unicorn]

Excellent coin Enworb!

Come on, pics of the others. You have wet my appetite now!!!

[Fulvio]

Very nice fill indeed. What do you think? A dollop of heavy grease, and the operator wiped it off, but only on the top surface of the die? There would be other examples, possibly with some of the field obliterated I would think.

[enworb]

I apologise for the crappy photos but they were taken through a saflip which I only just finished sealing the other week and i'll be damned if im getting them out.

You will notice that the 5c also has LIA missing and the 20c has the LIA weakly struck but just visible.

1c:


5c:


20c:

I think it probably is grease fulvio. Like I said I have a near identical coin but with a smidgen of the 1 showing so that is possibly a slightly later strike from around the same time. Could also be from a completely unrelated event.

[Fulvio]

Like I said I have a near identical coin but with a smidgen of the 1 showing so that is possibly a slightly later strike from around the same time. Could also be from a completely unrelated event.

Fills and miscellaneous strikethroughs happen often enough that they are usually unrelated. Its one reason I keep ALL my strikethroughs, and plan on eventually documenting them. With enough examples, a related pair is bound to turn up I figure.

Somewhere in this scrap metal yard masquerading as my desk I've got a couple of filled dollars from last week. One has almost nothing legible IIRC. But you don't often see a single digit so thoroughly obliterated like that penny. Either the blob hangs around and you get a huge dent, or it spreads into several letters and it all just looks sort of like a weak strike.

I'd love to have found this coin, or one like it.

[robbiegal]

grease filled die?


closest that I have to a filled 1

[Fulvio]

Yep. Lovely.

[enworb]

Nice ones robbie

[robbiegal]

I don't believe that I have ever seen a completely filled missing 1
I will have to have a hunt through the hubby's error albums

I once had a completely missing K in the KG on a 1964 penny
but I swapped it for something else with another collector
never seen one since either

[Fulvio]

but I swapped it for something else with another collector
never seen one since either

Oh dear. I don't think I'd ever swap a flaw of any sort. They're by definition individual and unique, whereas whatever I was going to swap it for probably wouldn't be. By comparison, errors are a dime a dozen, and varieties as common as dirt.

[ausjack]

trout has a 960 I think it was..unless he shot it :mocking: