TM Coin Club Thread

[translateltd]

I'd say Robert Pepping's observation is actually fairly definitive. It very likely is muled with the HK coin, and would require actual evidence to the contrary before considering possibility of BB mule. Wonder how the BB theory even started?

When the coin was sold in 1991 it came with "documentation from the Royal Mint" - that may have mentioned the MBB die possibility.  Nobles have said Malaya all along. Given that we're working with a sample of only 1 coin of each type for comparison, it's still possible that a different version of the colonial die with the effigy, and thus the cross on the crown, rotated a fraction of a degree, was used on some MBB coins as well as the HK ones.  For a total MBB 1961 5c mintage of about 90 million spread over six years they must have used anywhere up to 1000 dies (assuming a run of 100,000 per die), and those might in turn have come from different master versions.

I'm putting a request in the next Num. Soc. of Auckland "Mintmark" for anyone with a 1961 MBB 5c to check the cross position for me if at all possible.  This one is niggling me now.