Silver Saturday

[markn]

An upgrade to my 1902 set, thanks to a forum member.

[trout]

This hasn't arrived yet but it does complement Marks Coins

[Unicorn]

Wow!!! Beautiful coins Mark!!!

Trout, that penny helfpenny is beautiful. (Where has it been in the last 180 years?)

[oh my florin]

Great coins Mark and Trout

[bmclean]

Yes very nice coins. Edwardus looks like the type to have a beer with. Anyone have any grade opinions, problems or pointers with my 1937 Crown post here last night? Im feeling left out :icon_cry:

[Unicorn]

....... grade opinions, problems or pointers with my 1937 Crown post here last night? Im feeling left out :icon_cry:

Don't feel left out, it's what can happen when your post is the last item on a thread page. (Everyone looks at the new page).

I've never owned a 37 crown but it looks like yours may have had a clean somewhere in it's past. I agree that the eyebrow marks look like a minting (bucket) clash, but with nothing to compare it to, it's just my thoughts.

[markn]

Yes very nice coins. Edwardus looks like the type to have a beer with. Anyone have any grade opinions, problems or pointers with my 1937 Crown post here last night? Im feeling left out :icon_cry:

Sorry, I missed it.  It's got some residual lustre but is otherwise pretty banged around.  gVF perhaps.

[bmclean]

Thanks markn/unicorn. gVF sounds ok, thankfully its more for the beauty of the coin than the value. I dont like the sound of a clean tho, I assume thats the fine parallel scratches. I wasnt sure if that was a deliberate clean, or just some unintentional rub against something at some point.

[robbiegal]

It is just rim dings from the other coins hitting each other when they were binned during the mi ting process.  Very common.

[trout]

OK OK I'm a day early :angel:
I was hoping to do a "Show and Tell" on a rather nice 1,1/2 penny but it didn't arrive and there is NO mail on Saturdays here.
I did however pick this up from the post office today.
The reverse has great surfaces less 1 small hit just below the "N" in COMMONWEALTH ( you have to angle the coin to see it) also a small rim ding at 12oclock and a rather Good strike.
The obverse is also nicely struck with nice clean Fields, However there is the usual "Rub" on the Kings Cheek and a tiny "Hit" on the truncation of his neck.
These are sooo hard to find without a single mark due to their size and the fact that not many people liked these when they were issued.
All in all a reasonable coin

[Triggersmob]

Nice coin Jim.
It's never to early for silver Saturday.

[robbiegal]

does the mail come on Saturdays now?
doesn't at our post office

nice crown (by the way)
I picked up 7 kilos of post 1946 aussie silver coins last week-end

long story as to how I got them

not that keen on the silvers so I wasn't all that interested in the lot
until I weighed them and then calculated the silver content!

[trout]

I picked up 7 kilos of post 1946 aussie silver coins last week-end

I love noodling silver :yahoo:
I dumped all my reject silver when it hit $48 per ounce a while back.
I have since accumulated a few more kilo's by buying the odd silver lots and looking for "Gems" , not many gems but the odd errors that are interesting but the junk bucket is starting to get "Fat" again :angel:

[robbiegal]

these are most certainly not gems - all ave circ but there may be some errors if you know what you're looking for

only got one nice coin from the silver lot - a nice 1958 6p

but did get a few of those 1968 two cents with two of them being very nice
and then some 1968 one cents as well

[stevo1962]

A nice example of a key date