Uganda 1972 5 Shillings...Won it!

NJMark1

Found these 2 on E bay Krause says it's copper nickel one ofthese appears to be Copper the other copper nickel. Never heard of a fake for this one before. Could it be the picture tinting?
Value is
VF 55.00
XF 75.00
UNC 135.00
Mark

1jester

Mark, I think it might very well be an artifact of the photography process, and not knowing how to adjust for color.

tbirde56

I'd say the 1st picture is tinted as the paper under the coin is likely white. An editing program that makes the paper whitish also makes the coin appear more like the copper-nickel it probably is.

Coincracker

I agree with Mike and Brad. Only to add that Copper-Nickel will tone a brownish color if stored in certain ways.

lordmarcovan

Yeah, probably just the lighting.

Very neat design.

Edit to add: I lived just across the border from Uganda, in 1972. We lived in Tanzania. Too bad I didn't get some of those coins. Not that a border crossing would have been very easy- Idi Amin was in power over there, and Tanzania and Uganda were at war. We used to see military convoys passing on the road in front of our house. It was a little scary. Tanzania were the underdogs at the time, but they later turned the tables on ol' Idi Amin and won.

I used to get the Tanzanian 5-shilling coins: one a week, for my allowance. One of them would buy a model airplane kit, as I recall.

cladking

A lot of the African cu/ni is dramatically underpriced by Krause. So many of these post-1950
coins were heavily circulated and then melted. Some were very high face value and were
widely redeemed leaving only a few worn coins which escaped the furnaces.

This is one of those which was heavily melted.

JadeRareCoin

LM, may I ask what you were doing in Tanzania? In others words what was your family doing in Tanzania? Just curious.

NJMark1

Just got a reply from the seller of the coin that appears redish. He says the coin is bright white and he doesn't know why it appears red in the photo.

Mark

lordmarcovan

<< <i>LM, may I ask what you were doing in Tanzania? In others words what was your family doing in Tanzania? Just curious >>



My parents were Pioneers for the Baha'i Faith. (Sorta like missionaries, but Baha'i Pioneers are self-supporting.) We were there a little over a year.

PS- Jade, I love the cent in your icon. Something about that circular die break on those 1820's always appealed to me, and that looks like an especially sweet one.

NJMark1

Won it for 37.00
Uganda 1972 5 Shillings

Mark

cladking

That's probably an excellent price. I've not seen one in many years and never saw one in poundage.

Let us know if it's unc.

cosmicdebris

Excellent and Congrats!

Coincracker

That's a nice find Mark.