1942 Bombay Halfpenny with long reverse denticles - PCGS MS63BN

Australia, 1942 Bombay Halfpenny with long reverse denticles -

Although I have seen perhaps a dozen or so low-grade examples of the large reverse denticle variety of the 1942-I halfpenny in collections across Sydney, I know of only five examples in Mint State—that’s over the last six years since I started trading. One coin (graded MS63BN by PCGS) resides in the collection of an avid Sydney varieties collector and will not come to market until a better example comes along. The second coin is in the window of a Sydney dealer and is graded MS62RB with NGC. The third coin, graded PCGS MS62BN, was sold for $750 in June 2013 into the collection of a western Sydney collector. The fourth coin resides in the collection of a South Australian collector, who has owned the coin for some time. The coin photographed above is the finest example I’ve had in stock and one of the nicest example I’ve seen overall. The Ian McConnelly handbook of pre-decimal varieties describes this type as “RARE” and I agree. Like the 1931 dropped 1 Indian obverse die, this is one of those “must have” varieties for any serious variety collector. Equal-second finest graded by PCGS in Brown (5/14).