Please let me know what you think of this one. Sorry for the crappy pictures. I am a new member here and this is my first coin related post.
Can you try taking another pic of the coin. without any special cropping. Isn't it supposed to be 4-sided not scaloped?
Odd. Maybe Spock will save the day! Anyway...Can you still take another picture; the obverse is a little blurry. Thanks.
u r right thos eimages cant be used for grading. cut too much. if i had to hazard a guess i would say 63
Spock, do you know of any 2 annas struck on a planchet meant for a 1 anna? He claims it looks like the picture, i.e. scalloped. But the only thing is the planchet doesn't look like the size for an anna. Maybe it is the right size for an anna?
Good morning folks! I just checked this thread and was disappointed to note that none of the forum stalwarts other than byrd740 were able to grasp the significance of this. :goofer: Thanks to all those who replied. This coins weighs 3.88 grams -- the official weight of an anna coin and in all my years of collecting have never come across such an error. I guess posting some high grade coins would get more attention than such pieces. lol
Just got round to this one, and I have to agree that I have not seen a 2 Anna coin minted on a 1 Anna planchet before this either. Can you possibly post some clearer pics or even scans of it? also if possible one of the edge :smile The only other thing that I can think of is someone went to quite a bit of trouble clipping out the scolope shape :goof:
there is no significance for this for indian coins u get whatever u want. dies were also created for british india coins in the 1960's u can laugh if you like or not. mules, restrikes, OMS, wrong planchets, coins from mints that did not exist - the works. all it means is you have some $$$ now if it were a us coin it would be significant
This is partially true and applies to modern Republic of India coins. You used to get all die marriages and OMS's for British when they were restuck, but all these were restrikes and not circulation coins. This to my best knowledge is not correct. Dies were used to create restrikes and no new dies were created! Please give a reference or example if you have any. So very true! It would be worth a 5 figure coin if US. Now I think it is worth just very low 4 figures.
read Pridmores book you will get your answers. creation of coins was a profitable business for the mint and based on demand coins were created. a study of of the restrikes will get you the same result. As for your earlier statememnt regaring coins of modern india what is true for modern india was true for british india the practices were followed by british times. you can get a lot of OMS and patterns as circulating coins a quick visit to some old coin catalogs from famous auctions will get you the same result. As i said earlier there are a lot of people who want to believe a lot of things about indian coins but most of them are simply not true. its also the reason the hobby is in the dark ages. you can try it out on ebay with a reserve of 10000 dollars. my feeling is this coin will not reach 4 figures there simply isnt a market for 4 figure indian coins outside gold, proofs, and patterns.
nah the book is where the money is. i have written the intro and its going to a red book on indian coins. i was waiting for joe to get back to show u the intro piece.
yes you are right !!! we should copy paste all this in word. ill do it but u do it too just in case i miss something. We should be able to edit and wodsmith these into the final product.
I have read Pridmore's book and nowhere does it mention creation of new dies to satisfy customer demand.
read my post first carefully then read the book again i am sure you will find it if you look hard enough
