Hello all, Guys I bought a small group of foreign silver coins at a yard sale today and I was pretty happy to see when 1 of them was a 1944 Aussie 1 Schilling with a blank reverse. Not only do I not no much of error coins but especially with foreign errors......CAN SOMEONE PLEASE HELP??? Any info will help. Is this common? Is it recorded? Possible value? Grade? I would be so happy to get ant info from some pros....THX FrankP36
I'm far from an expert, but I've seen plenty of jewelry and other knickknacks made out of Aussie coinage from the WW2 era. I wonder if this is someone's "this will give me something to do for a while" project like that? What does the coin weigh?
It weighs 5.1 grams....average for the year and type is 5.2 grams....like I said im not an error pro BUT,,,,the coin is FOR SURE sterling and not a fake and the blank reverse is so smooth...not scratched, hairlines...nothing to indicate foul play!!! Im very curious!!
Incidentally, your shilling was minted in San Francisco, and note, "schillings" are from Austria... Doesn't look like the coin has been out of its holder, at least when you took the pictures. Is the edge reeded??
I posted a thread about this same thing a while ago. I have a coin like yours and a French franc that is just like it. No one seemed to know why when I asked. Edit: About a "smoothed coin" and why.
Not familiar with the post you reference Jensenbay, but my reply is in reference to the OP's coin weight; it seems to be underweight substantially for an Australian Shilling & was curious where he saw the 5.2 g.
somebody cleaned it, look at all the discoloring, its all over the place, anytime you see discoloring around the motto, ram, etc its was cleaned
PLEASE disregard the schilling/shilling comment.....its been a long/tough day!!! I was confused ur 100% correct
Well, Frankp, for all your huffing and puffing, you're wrong. You need a foreign coin catalog. AUSTRIA minted "schillings" and British Commonwealth countries minted "shillings". Or did you even notice the difference? And as you will find out, the S mintmark on Australian coins 1942 to 1944 designates San Francisco (not Sydney). During the war, Australia had problems securing sufficient silver bullion, so it contracted with the San Francisco mint to produce silver coins, temporarily. Go look it up.
Doug...its ok...breathe...lol....did u read my last comments to disregard and that I misspelled!!!! BUT I do appreciate the info! THX!!
Yes, but we posted at about the same time, so I had not seen your comment yet. Sometimes, U.S. "love tokens," are found with one side machined-down, but the engraving was never added. Possibly the same for your shilling, and the French franc too.
