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Dimitri.....Thank You !

FairlanemanFairlaneman Posts: 10,424 ✭✭✭✭✭
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I just love the strike on this coin. Can it get any better or more centered ?

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Thanks Again.

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  • AuldFartteAuldFartte Posts: 4,597 ✭✭✭✭
    Awesome coin image
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  • wybritwybrit Posts: 6,967 ✭✭✭
    Great coin, Fairlaneman! You are building up a nice set.
    Former owner, Cambridge Gate collection.
  • FairlanemanFairlaneman Posts: 10,424 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Tom thanks mostly to you folks here. By the way did I thank you for the 1/3rd Farthing ? Maybe you can help a little on that coin. Was it just a weak strike or some other mal-funtion when it was being struck ? Broad struck ? Anyway I think it is neat.
  • PuddlePiratePuddlePirate Posts: 728 ✭
    It is a neat coin. Someday waaaaaay down the line I will build up my own collection of them. (so don't take all the good ones) image
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  • oldshepoldshep Posts: 3,240 ✭
    Totaly beautiful. Nice grap.
    Shep
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  • wybritwybrit Posts: 6,967 ✭✭✭
    ...1/3rd Farthing ? Maybe you can help a little on that coin. Was it just a weak strike or some other mal-funtion when it was being struck ? Broad struck ?

    Here is an image of Ken's new 1/3 farthing:

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    I'd be interested in some opinions from the forum. Notice how the rim is mistruck on one side of the obverse and the beads are flattened on the reverse. What looks like wear isn't. I've seen some pretty similar strikes on other Victorian 1/3s as well. Filled dies? Not enough metal to fill the dies? Just not sure.
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  • SYRACUSIANSYRACUSIAN Posts: 6,461 ✭✭✭✭
    You're welcome Ken, I just don't know why it took so long to arrive. This sixpence is wybrit pedigree too BTW. image
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  • rhound1977rhound1977 Posts: 2,504
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  • FairlanemanFairlaneman Posts: 10,424 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>You're welcome Ken, I just don't know why it took so long to arrive. This sixpence is wybrit pedigree too BTW. image >>



    Dimitri it got here much quicker than a coin I received from India. Maybe its because once it hits the USA it also has to make a trip all of the way across the country and then get to a little hick town in Oregon. At any rate the time was no problem at all.

    Someone give a opinion on the 1/3rd Farthing. The picture is very accurate and the coin is somewhat baffling by the way it was struck.
  • ccrdragonccrdragon Posts: 2,697 ✭
    Wybrit, since the rest of the strike looks pretty solid, I'd say it was a thin sided planchet that caused the problem. If you look at the side opposite the one in question, you will notice that that side is also weak (almost like the strike from a clipped planchet) which I believe is caused by the lack of equalizing pressure across the surface of the coin.
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  • StorkStork Posts: 5,206 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Dimitri is image




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