NZ Silver Sixpences

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gashmios
gashmios Posts: 504 ✭✭✭
edited February 15, 2026 6:21AM in World & Ancient Coins Forum

I like these birds and they are half silver (50%)

these coins I also find hard to grade and tend to come back to my as cleaned ....

I've been told, that is just the way it is in NZ - they clean there coins.




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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  • gashmios
    gashmios Posts: 504 ✭✭✭
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    This is NOT a coin, but you might like to look at it anyway and debate its attributes. It is also the last image on that flashdrive.

    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
  • gashmios
    gashmios Posts: 504 ✭✭✭
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    there is a sad story behind these coins

    https://www.nzgeo.com/stories/huia-the-sacred-bird/

    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
  • lordmarcovan
    lordmarcovan Posts: 45,335 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Oh, that is sad. I did not realize the bird on the coin was an extinct species.

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

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