Date stamp missing

Murph106 · August 08, 2013, 08:27:55 AM

Date stamp missing
I was looking through the old coin collection and found a few that might be interesting I don't know much about coins but I found one that is missing a number from the year stamp it a Aussie florin ithas 194 missing the last number you can see a impression but it looks to be a square shape the coin is fairly worn was this a common fault back then I'm trying to attach a pic but it says file to big I will try to make it smaller and post it.

markn · August 08, 2013, 08:30:38 AM

Quote from: 'Murph106' pid='24252' dateline='1375916275'Date stamp missing
I was looking through the old coin collection and found a few that might be interesting I don't know much about coins but I found one that is missing a number from the year stamp it a Aussie florin ithas 194 missing the last number you can see a impression but it looks to be a square shape the coin is fairly worn was this a common fault back then I'm trying to attach a pic but it says file to big I will try to make it smaller and post it.

Welcome to the forum Murph. Rather than attaching the image to a post why not post it up in our gallery? You can see the link up the top right of the screen. Once you've done that you can link to the gallery image in your post!

Murph106 · August 08, 2013, 08:49:45 AM

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Quote from: 'Murph106' pid='24252' dateline='1375916275'Date stamp missing
I was looking through the old coin collection and found a few that might be interesting I don't know much about coins but I found one that is missing a number from the year stamp it a Aussie florin ithas 194 missing the last number you can see a impression but it looks to be a square shape the coin is fairly worn was this a common fault back then I'm trying to attach a pic but it says file to big I will try to make it smaller and post it.

Welcome to the forum Murph. Rather than attaching the image to a post why not post it up in our gallery? You can see the link up the top right of the screen. Once you've done that you can link to the gallery image in your post!

Thanks I will give that a go

I have posted a picture of the coin in the gallery let m know what you think
Murph

markn · August 08, 2013, 09:22:43 AM

Here's your coin:

Unicorn · August 08, 2013, 11:08:56 AM

:welcome: to the forum Murph106!

Interesting florin. What is the other side like?

Murph106 · August 08, 2013, 01:12:23 PM

It is a bit worn I haven't tried to clean it at all would probably clean up ok I will put a pic of the back on the gallery

Robster · August 08, 2013, 04:05:35 PM

:welcome: No cleaning, it is fine just as it is.

Fulvio · August 08, 2013, 07:59:38 PM

The year and missing A in Australia are die fills, nothing to do with wear. Nice find.

And yeah, don't clean it. Or if you must, just use Acetone and no rubbing.

Murph106 · August 09, 2013, 04:55:04 PM

Anyone know where I would get at his coin valued at

robbiegal · August 09, 2013, 05:32:58 PM

if you mean a value of this coin

then having had a 1962 florin with the missing 2
and it was a better grade
and it was a genuine coin
then $10 would be the general ballpark for a valuation or sale price

the photo is blurry and the lettering is large
so i'd need a better photograph to consider it a genuine florin

Murph106 · August 10, 2013, 10:23:27 AM

I posted a couple of pics in the gallery they aren't to blurry how did you know your coin was1962 if the two was missing?

robbiegal · August 10, 2013, 11:02:59 AM

thanks - i did look at your posted photos

I had a look through my pics
and can't find one of the 1962 (but I know the person who has it now)

it was die fill and you could see the roughness of the 2

whereas you can have die fill with no remaining roughness and can't decipher the date

or like some other errors you can actually have the letter/number missing in the original die such as the 1942 penny missing I (Bombay)