sovereignsteve

OK thanks. What I should have said then is that I have never seen one, known of anyone who has or seen a photo of one. However, it seems that no mint is totally free of the scourge. Nice to see them taking it so seriously though.

OK thanks. What I should have said then is that I have never seen one, known of anyone who has or seen a photo of one. However, it seems that no mint is totally free of the scourge. Nice to see them taking it so seriously though.

OK thanks. What I should have said then is that I have never seen one, known of anyone who has or seen a photo of one. However, it seems that no mint is totally free of the scourge. Nice to see them taking it so seriously though.

http://www.perthmintbullion.com/blog/blog/15-01-05/Perth_Mint_Tackles_Milk_Spot_Issue.aspx

Woohoo...big "THANK YOU" to @SilverSiren for the lead at Downies.  Just picked up the 2017 Krug Silver Proof for $110 including shipping to the US!  I love when currency conversions work in your favor!

The postman has just brought my new favourite silver coin [emoji4]

Somali Elephant date run 2004 - 2017 (including the 2010 reverse of 2009 version).

Making the pre 2013 britannia 958 silver and plainfields look better day by day

Not uncommon by any means, I have a few.
It can be interesting to see how many consecutive letters or numbers are affected.
I have tried to get my head around how some of them can occur in the way they do but some have me baffled.

The showcase of my sovereign collection arrived last week - Late to game but still in it.

Got these today like new mint condition I'm hooked on sovereigns now lol I'm now up to 10 

I think the Bentley collection has been the best attempt to do this for the sovereigns and even with his very very deep pockets he didn't get there. He really did try - having a list kept with every dealer/auction house with the numbers he had missing! Others do this for the other denominations - even me?
I wish auctions/dealers would consistently put the actual die number on the listing and the TPGs on the label rather than just 'die number' as the pics don't always allow you to see it - it is very annoying having to keep asking what it is only to get told you are the 10th person to ask today (pet hate?)

Interesting one this, it has perplexed me at times. (yes I'm sad)
According to MM "rare" as you say but mintage of 750k includes the G&D design from that year as well. The latter being given the designation "Scarce".
I've never noticed this as being in short supply at all and the market doesn't put a premium on them.
Which edition of MM are you referencing? It doesn't say that in mine but the years 1871 and 1872 saw a few changes and version of half sovs. I don't think MM has all the answers for these years and you need to collate his information with the Spink varieties to try to get to grips with the identification. There are a few different busts used for the obverses and it's not that easy to differentiate them unless you put them side by side. Yours fits nicely into Spink 3860C and MM has that die number listed for 1872 but his classification doesn't run to the individual sub-types. It's still a valuable coin whichever way you look at it.
MM is getting quite old now, the first edition was 1982, new die numbers were being recorded all the time and no doubt have continued to be so since the last edition in 2004.
TBH I'm not really convinced we need a full record of these numbers, I don't see the benefit. I don't think the mint has such a record, we don't really know why they were used and nobody is going to try and collect every die number for every year anyway.

A 1937 George VI Crown. Not rare but almost as it left the mint.

A 1937 George VI Crown. Not rare but almost as it left the mint.

A 1937 George VI Crown. Not rare but almost as it left the mint.

My first gold coin a 1/4oz 2009 gold nugget from Chards

Can I have 66 then please (and if you slip and accidently add an extra 6, or a double strike, that's fine)

A 1937 George VI Crown. Not rare but almost as it left the mint.

an 1877 shield sovereign, which would have been nice if not for the rim damage..

Finaly got my 2003 10Y Mirrored NGC MS70 panda today
Only 20 of these have MS70
Also got my 1993 small date frosted MS69

A 1937 George VI Crown. Not rare but almost as it left the mint.

A 1937 George VI Crown. Not rare but almost as it left the mint.

A 1937 George VI Crown. Not rare but almost as it left the mint.

A 1937 George VI Crown. Not rare but almost as it left the mint.