A Penny that makes Cents :)
gashmios
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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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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.
Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius, "Meditations"
Apparently I have been awarded the DPOTD twice.
by the pic looks AU
Why not MS?
Why not MS?
It could just be the lighting, but I think I'm seeing "rub", particularly on the obverse.
Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius, "Meditations"
Apparently I have been awarded the DPOTD twice.
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.
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 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
Brown is not impressive enough, how about 1942 RED!
some raw coins that are circ grades
