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Worldwide Coins & Bank Notes => European Coins => Topic started by: Goose on August 31, 2013, 09:38:44 AM
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I just picked up a 1934 England 3 pence (Fine) and I noticed that it's not reeded. Should it be, being that it's 50% silver? Also, I noticed a small 'c' in the center of the triangular sticks on the reverse. I have an old K & M catalog and it doesn't mention anything about the reeding or the small 'c'. Any help out there?
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GB 3 pence's are not reeded and the tiny c in the middle is normal. We had 3 pence's in Australia as well and none of them were reeded either. Probably because they were too small for reeding to be applied successfully.
Go to this site and scroll halfway down the page & you'll see a picture of a 1934 3 pence:https://www.coins-of-the-uk.co.uk/~coinsof1/pics/three.html
Are you starting a collection of them?
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The "c" is normal, if the pics I Googled are anything to go by. Not sure about the reeding though.
Edit: I'm too slow, Nancy beat me to it.
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Thanks for the info Nancy. As for the 3 pence, I have few. I started to collect foreign coins other than Canadian (1966) about 10 yrs ago. It's not that large but I now have over 60 countries' coins.....95% of them silver. My top foreign collecting interests are Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. As for U S coins? I lost interest in collecting anymore of them many, many snows ago.
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The "small C" is actually a small "G", the initial of the designer, George Kruger Gray.
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The "small C" is actually a small "G", the initial of the designer, George Kruger Gray.
Thanks Sap. That makes sense. :D