This is a subject treated as PM to start with.
1st message from Kaukola65
Hi Ole.
I have two pieces of Swedish 10 öre coins from 1938 and I found some differencies in them.
1) Cap between the shield and number 3,
2) cap between numbers 3 and 8,
3) an aisle of number 3 and
4) a letter G seems to be different.
I wish that you have time to check these pictures and give me a comment. I have not found any information about this kind of variations from Delzanno's Myntårsboken or other books.
Looking forward to your answer.
Best regards,
Kauko
My answer:
Hi Kauko,
a nice find, the G is probably just wear and tear, but the 38 versus 3 8 is certainly a variant, which up to now probably have not documented anywhere.
If caould send me the images WITHOUT your arrows, I could set up the documentation like this (I would apply the arrows on the macro images only.
I already made another 1938 documentation some time ago!
Kauko's reply:
Hi Ole,
Thank you for your early reply.
Here are those pictures you asked. Could you tell me what might be a possible value of the variant?
I have some Swedish 2 öre coins too where I found somethink unusual marks, but I am not sure are they only minting errors.
BR
Kauko
My answer:
Hi Kauko,
I have plenty of variants in my collection, but there's no market for them, so mine have the value of the normal coin with the same grade.
The US varieties on the coins before 1950 have a surplus value, but again, it's not easy to find buyers. If I have the possibility to swap for variant, I take it, but then I'm very interested in them.
Thanks for the images. I'll set up the documentation this weekend.
Take care and have fun and go on sending me images of your findings, and I'll look after the documentations, OK?
OLe
Kauko's answer:
Hi.
Ok. Thank you.. I need to buy a better camera, so I could take better images. Can you recommend some?
I have just started collecting about two years ago. It's nice to hear that I have one variant in my small collection
Lets keep in touch. Have a nice weekend.
Kauko
My answer:
Hej Kauko,
here is the modified image
Please send me the images of your “suspicious” coins?
In my opinion your camera is quite OK. I use a Nikon Coolpix S9100 on its macro option and it's giving this as a result
Take care
Ole
Kauko
Hi Ole.
Looks good.
At first, here are images from 2 öre coin 1928 where I found somethink unusual marks when I took a better look of year 28 and those punch marks… Eg. It looks like there is a twisted (ccw) number 2 above year 2 and smaller numbers in those bunch marks. What can explain these? I haven't seen similar in any coins before?
I will send some images of my other coins later this week.
BR
Kauko
My reaction
Hej Kauko,
to me, they appear to be PMD (post Mint Damage), which doesn't count as variants.
Best regards
ole
