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A couple of Antique Show Varieties

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There's a small town about an hour from where I live called Strathalbyn. Each year they hold an antique and collectables fair whose claim to fame is that they fly out a second rate celebrity from the UK to open the show. This year it was Tim Wonnacott from Bargain Hunt. The show is spread all over the town and most exhibitors are in 4 halls, each of which is about 5 minutes walk apart. It's quite busy and getting any time at any one stand was a matter of holding your ground and staring down any number of people who wanted to shove you out of the way to get at what they were interested in. Coins are not a feature of the show but it's always worth a look and this year one dealer had made the 500 mile trip from Melbourne to attend and my partner and I had a fun hour or so picking through his albums of world coins.

We've done well out of his stock in the past and this time the pickings were a bit slimmer but we managed to find a couple of interesting varieties plus half a dozen Australian pre-decimal errors. Here's the pick of the world varieties:

KM#26.2 New Zealand 1965 6d "broken wing". The area of missing detail is supposedly due to die fill but to my eye the missing area is higher than the surrounding design which makes me wonder if there wasn't some sort of problem when the production die was hubbed.

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KM#377.8 Mexico Go 8R SM over FR over assayer. Not very high grade but a pretty clear over-assayer on this 8 reales. The research I've done on this suggests it's not very scarce. Interestingly there's an 1879/8 Go 8R with the SM over FR over-assayer. An overdate and over-assayer! Cool!

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