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Unicorn · February 22, 2014, 01:47:54 PM

Lovely coin Accumulator and a beaut price!

:i_agree: with PPH & RG, it almost looks like the roo has a case of myxomatosis. (Coin didn't come from Mexico?)

ADMISLSE · February 24, 2014, 04:07:21 PM

Great photos, thanks for sharing

purplepennyhunter · March 05, 2014, 09:09:45 PM

Picked this baby out of a broken homemade roll this evening :yahoo:

Fr45h3R · March 05, 2014, 09:10:32 PM

Half Love(heart) Penny!!!

trout · March 05, 2014, 09:13:23 PM

Quote from: 'purplepennyhunter' pid='43165' dateline='1394015985'Picked this baby out of a broken homemade roll this evening :yahoo:

I have a similar roll coming from Numisbid and am hoping for something similar :ok:
Love the toning PP :yahoo:

stevo1962 · March 05, 2014, 09:40:28 PM

Very clean looking coin PPH,well done

Took a chance on this one.

Fulvio · March 06, 2014, 01:51:03 AM

Quote from: 'trout' pid='43167' dateline='1394016203'Love the toning PP :yahoo:

Bugga da toning.. did nobody notice that 4?

trout · March 06, 2014, 06:32:44 AM

Quote from: 'Fulvio' pid='43181' dateline='1394032863'
Quote from: 'trout' pid='43167' dateline='1394016203'Love the toning PP :yahoo:

Bugga da toning.. did nobody notice that 4?

Not really ,it is too weakly struck

markn · March 06, 2014, 07:07:12 AM

Quote from: 'Fulvio' pid='43181' dateline='1394032863'Bugga da toning.. did nobody notice that 4?

Just about all of them were like that. Worn die.

robbiegal · March 07, 2014, 12:38:32 AM

nice coins guys
stevo - looks like a great pick-up as well

wwwww · March 09, 2014, 05:11:39 PM

Not a coin but I think it's pretty cool:

It's an official copy of correspondence between a chemist, Charles Watt and the NSW Colonial Treasurer regarding the extraction of silver from Sydney mint sovereigns (before 1868 they had a gold silver alloy instead of a gold copper alloy).

ausjack · March 09, 2014, 05:24:23 PM

Yes very interesting thanks Walter, ya learn something new every day.

Fulvio · March 10, 2014, 04:14:15 AM

Quote from: 'wwwww' pid='43458' dateline='1394347299'regarding the extraction of silver from Sydney mint sovereigns

Basically, his assertion was that a Sydney sovereign had a value of a sovereign plus a penny, unlike the english sovs. This would be a problem if they were exported, as they would be melted down. The answer of course was to change the alloy, which they eventually did.

trout · March 10, 2014, 08:15:42 AM

Quote from: 'Fulvio' pid='43481' dateline='1394387055'
Quote from: 'wwwww' pid='43458' dateline='1394347299'regarding the extraction of silver from Sydney mint sovereigns

Basically, his assertion was that a Sydney sovereign had a value of a sovereign plus a penny, unlike the english sovs. This would be a problem if they were exported, as they would be melted down. The answer of course was to change the alloy, which they eventually did.

I would have thought that to separate the silver from the gold would have cost more than a penny.
You can't simply apply heat to separate silver from gold, it is a far more technical process than that

Fulvio · March 10, 2014, 10:36:09 AM

Quote from: 'trout' pid='43486' dateline='1394401542'I would have thought that to separate the silver from the gold would have cost more than a penny.

I have shown this statement of Captain Ward's to
commercial gentlemen in Sydney, who, like myself,
were quite unable to understand it. I contend that a
colonial sovereign gives the value of a sovereign and
a penny to those who extract the silver.

I read that as meaning the NETT return is a penny profit, after paying for the extraction.

I'd be interested to know how many Sydney sovs were actually melted down. Does this information exist anywhere?