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<p>[QUOTE="Jaelus, post: 3157920, member: 46237"]OMC! Love it.</p><p><br /></p><p>My biggest OMC is the only remaining hole in my Second Hungarian Republic (1946-1949) type set: Aluminum 5 Fillér (1948) KM-535. It's a one-year type, but then again this is a pretty short set. There's nothing especially remarkable about the type that would suggest it is as rare as it seems to be. I have <i>never</i> seen an uncirculated example, and over the last few years I only remember seeing <i>one</i> example on eBay, which was perhaps fine and looked like it had been run over by a truck a few times. The type was struck again in 1951 under the Hungarian People's Republic (1949-1989) (I consider it to be a split set of two one-year types since they were coined by different governments), and I've been able to find an MS66 example of that date, but for the 1948 - nothing.</p><p><br /></p><p>I also have an OMC in my Kingdom of Hungary (1920-1945) set: Nickel 50 Fillér (1926-1940) KM-509. By all accounts it's a common cheap coin, I just can't find one in MS for the life of me. To put this in perspective, I've been able to find examples of the other coins in the set in the MS64-66 range, and even emergency iron and steel issues in MS63-64, so the lack of a mint state example of this type is extremely conspicuous. There were 44 million of these struck from 1926-1940. There should be some high grade examples out there.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Jaelus, post: 3157920, member: 46237"]OMC! Love it. My biggest OMC is the only remaining hole in my Second Hungarian Republic (1946-1949) type set: Aluminum 5 Fillér (1948) KM-535. It's a one-year type, but then again this is a pretty short set. There's nothing especially remarkable about the type that would suggest it is as rare as it seems to be. I have [I]never[/I] seen an uncirculated example, and over the last few years I only remember seeing [I]one[/I] example on eBay, which was perhaps fine and looked like it had been run over by a truck a few times. The type was struck again in 1951 under the Hungarian People's Republic (1949-1989) (I consider it to be a split set of two one-year types since they were coined by different governments), and I've been able to find an MS66 example of that date, but for the 1948 - nothing. I also have an OMC in my Kingdom of Hungary (1920-1945) set: Nickel 50 Fillér (1926-1940) KM-509. By all accounts it's a common cheap coin, I just can't find one in MS for the life of me. To put this in perspective, I've been able to find examples of the other coins in the set in the MS64-66 range, and even emergency iron and steel issues in MS63-64, so the lack of a mint state example of this type is extremely conspicuous. There were 44 million of these struck from 1926-1940. There should be some high grade examples out there.[/QUOTE]
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