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A Penny that makes Cents :)

gashmiosgashmios Posts: 504 ✭✭✭
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You have to appreciate these big copper Pennies that not long ago, was the backbone of commerce around the group with a Penny Weight/ The great thing about foriegn coins is you can get really nice examples without draining your pockets.

How much do you think this New Zealand Penny would grade.


So many immigrant groups have swept through our town that Brooklyn, like Atlantis, reaches mythological proportions in the mind of the world - RI Safir 1998

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  • SapyxSapyx Posts: 2,517 ✭✭✭✭✭

    The standard size and weight of the penny used in Britain was also used by several colonies and dominions, specifically, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. Pennies issued for the other territories typically varied in some way: those for New Guinea, Fiji and West Africa were holed, for example, while those made for Jamaica were made of either brass or cupronickel (as the locals there had some superstitions against copper coins).

    New Zealand pennies are great for the collector on a budget, as there aren't any rare key dates that break the bank. As a beginner collector in the late 1980s I bought a "complete date set" of typical circulated New Zealand pennies off a mail-order dealer; the set cost me $8 at the time.

    As for the grading of your coin, I would hazard a guess that it's not quite uncirculated; mid to high AU, perhaps.

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  • angelo43angelo43 Posts: 121 ✭✭✭

    by the pic looks AU

  • gashmiosgashmios Posts: 504 ✭✭✭

    @Sapyx said:

    As for the grading of your coin, I would hazard a guess that it's not quite uncirculated; mid to high AU, perhaps.

    Why not MS?

    So many immigrant groups have swept through our town that Brooklyn, like Atlantis, reaches mythological proportions in the mind of the world - RI Safir 1998
  • gashmiosgashmios Posts: 504 ✭✭✭

    @angelo43 said:
    by the pic looks AU

    Why not MS?

    So many immigrant groups have swept through our town that Brooklyn, like Atlantis, reaches mythological proportions in the mind of the world - RI Safir 1998
  • SapyxSapyx Posts: 2,517 ✭✭✭✭✭

    It could just be the lighting, but I think I'm seeing "rub", particularly on the obverse.

    Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.
    Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius, "Meditations"

    Apparently I have been awarded the DPOTD twice. B)
  • lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 44,950 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited February 15, 2026 9:51AM

    I was thinking 63 BN, but squinting at the small pix on my phone was not an optimal scenario to grade it from.

    I would trust @Sapyx ’s opinion.

    PS- whether technically Ch AU or UNC, it’s a nice coin, regardless.

    Collector since 1976. On the CU forums here since 2001.

  • gashmiosgashmios Posts: 504 ✭✭✭

    So I found a few of these in Slabs and few are quite nice - including red coins from the 1940s (how does that happen?)


    Here is a 1947 Big Copper!

    So many immigrant groups have swept through our town that Brooklyn, like Atlantis, reaches mythological proportions in the mind of the world - RI Safir 1998
  • gashmiosgashmios Posts: 504 ✭✭✭
    edited February 19, 2026 6:21PM

    So here is a 1942 graded Brown and MS64. Imagine this. The Battle of Brittan was full on at this point yet these coins were still exported around the globe to NZ and it is still Brown. I think it is very impressive for a Penny.



    BTW - I think I would had graded this a 63 tops with the hit marks all about the focal points of the portrait

    So many immigrant groups have swept through our town that Brooklyn, like Atlantis, reaches mythological proportions in the mind of the world - RI Safir 1998
  • gashmiosgashmios Posts: 504 ✭✭✭


    Brown is not impressive enough, how about 1942 RED!

    So many immigrant groups have swept through our town that Brooklyn, like Atlantis, reaches mythological proportions in the mind of the world - RI Safir 1998
  • gashmiosgashmios Posts: 504 ✭✭✭
    edited February 21, 2026 2:47PM

    some raw coins that are circ grades


    So many immigrant groups have swept through our town that Brooklyn, like Atlantis, reaches mythological proportions in the mind of the world - RI Safir 1998
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