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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GeorgeM, post: 2324148, member: 28550&quot;]I didn&#039;t get it at all. It is one of a cache of &quot;I&#039;m not planning on selling these&quot; coins that a store owner of a &quot;We Buy Gold&quot; place was kind enough to show me.</p><p><br /></p><p>He was wondering if any of his coins were worth getting slabbed instead of selling at a slight premium to their melt value. This one jumped right out at me and grabbed me by the throat.</p><p><br /></p><p>My immediate reaction was similar to yours - I felt that a gold 3 pence must be a plated phoney. Then, I googled it (just in case there were gold Maundy pieces or something similar made in 1898) and found that it&#039;s kinda the holy grail of South African coinage akin to the 1848 gold $2.50 US pieces marked &quot;Cal.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.ngccoin.com/coin-explorer/liberty-head-250-pscid-57/1848-cal-25-ms-coinid-17749" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.ngccoin.com/coin-explorer/liberty-head-250-pscid-57/1848-cal-25-ms-coinid-17749" rel="nofollow">https://www.ngccoin.com/coin-explorer/liberty-head-250-pscid-57/1848-cal-25-ms-coinid-17749</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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