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  Isn't this the small eagle? The NGC lookup says Large Eagle.

I have ( among others) complete mint sets for both Mexico and the UK but no place in the registry despite these being very interesting periods for both countries' mintages. Much like the US going off silver Mexico did as well and the UK changed to decimal.

Sets like this are available over at PCGS (which I have started over there), would be nice to have here as well.

On 3/19/2024 at 12:39 AM, Mike Meenderink said:

Die subsidence (sunken die)  The surface of a die will some­times sink in, leaving a recess into which coin metal rises. This form of die deformation is presumably the result of abnormally soft die steel. The zone of subsidence will sometimes show cracking along its margin. In the absence of such cracks, the edge will be softly defined. In my opinion this is what has happened to your coin. This scenario is more common on the steel cents since steel dies were used to mint these steel coins and its a pretty hard metal to stamp. This would make the dies go bad faster especially dies with defects in the steel. It is not a collectable error to most knowledgeable collectors and can be very common on many types of coins.

I am replying to you, but want to thank everyone else as well. I't been sorting through boxes of coins that I wasn't sure of what to do with for the last 20 years. Finally doing housekeeping and giving whatever wouldn't grade to my daughter - This came from a friend (formerly wigglebutts here at NGC) and he had marked it D/D - he had gifted me several nice coins including a 1967 MS67RD penny and half a dozen Gem BU 1955 blazers with cuds in the gap of the last 5 among others nice pennies. Sending some in for grading but this will go to my daughter ;0)

This looks (to me at least) like a pretty clear d/d. Obviously the coin has a little oxidation issue on the edges of the coin. Is it worth bothering with?

In the Elizabeth II Pre-Decimal Type Set, 1953-1967, Circulation Issue there should be two slots for shilling "English" and "Scottish" There is currently only one for Shilling.

I collect world coins for specific years. Any chance there could be a world collection based on the year of mintage? I understand that it could be unwieldy to do each country by year but an open slot world collection by year where the only qualification for entry is mint date?