Proof 1927 Canberra Florin Parliament House

Description: Taking offers please submit now for this beautiful coin BELOW IS SOME TELL TALE SIGNS TO LOOK FOR WHEN DETERMINING IF YOU HAVE A PROOF PARLIAMENT HOUSE ONE FLORIN The tell-tale signs of a PROOF Canberra Florin. There are some tell-tale signs that may assist you in the identification of a PROOF Canberra Florin. But a word of warning. PROOF coins must be sensitively handled and holding them in your hand may ultimately impact negatively on their delicate surfaces. With a consequential impact on their value. So, if you are struggling to know how to handle the coin and find those tell-tale marks, take your coin into your local coin dealer. Consider the date-side of a Canberra Florin and inspect the coin under a magnifying glass. If it is a PROOF, there will be raised lines between the oval encasing the date 1927 and the ONE FLORIN in the legend. The novice will class them as scratches. A professional will refer to them as striations. Turn the coin over and there also is extensive raised lines (striations) in the fields in front of, and behind, the portrait of George V. PROOF coins are the product of extensive die preparation. Those lines might look like scratches, and we are not talking about the scratch marks or gouges that come from circulation. The striations are the clear evidence that the Melbourne Mint manually brushed the dies, and in so doing created scoring marks in the dies; marks that were replicated onto the coins during the minting process as raised lines. In the main, the PROOF Canberra Florin has the tell-tale raised lines in the positions describe

Price: 14449 AUD

Location: Blacktown, NSW

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