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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;7Jags, post: 7644215, member: 78719&quot;]Hiya,</p><p>The copper nickel specimens NOT for photography - as you can see they do not photo well at all (BTW yours looks pretty good but can not make out hairlines, etc. very well).</p><p>Sadly, the mint ran into progressively increased problems and sold/changed hands numerous times past the 1980 year mark. Many of the records were not available then or were confused or just plain wrong, the listings for matte for Barbados, Belize, Guyana, Jamaica, Papua, Trinidad (amongst others ) 1978 and later appear to be in error. </p><p>Krause got hold of many of the records, but unclear precisely their source. Their 2020 Standard Catalog for example had these problems with the 1984 Barbados $10:</p><p><br /></p><p>1 - KM 40&nbsp;&nbsp; They have this listed but then call it &quot;Silver&quot;, when by their cataloguing system, it should NOT be silver and no proofs of this copper nickel type known</p><p><br /></p><p>2 - The uncirculated version listed under KM 40 is NOT (M). It should be (U), which is the coin you have. These were NOT used for photographic.</p><p><br /></p><p>3 - There is no KM 40a, which is what the proper number should be for the silver proof according to how they listed ALL other $10 coins and for that matter all other silver versions.</p><p><br /></p><p>4 - The listings under proof sets for Barbados, KM&nbsp; PS13 incorrectly propagate/list under identification this set including the KM 40 (which would be copper nickel) and it should for the reasons above be listed as a KM 40a</p><p><br /></p><p>Also the fate of many of these coins is unclear, just what happened to the currency or uncirculated versions in either (M) matte or (U) uncirculated is very unclear. I have some connections to people of some influence in a couple of these countries, and have contacted the Central Banks with NO results, very frustrating.</p><p><br /></p><p>I will look into the Liberia coins as I do not know these, and do not know of any small denomination unc. Liberia coins for after 1979 above 10c denomination for the FM.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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