Talk:Threepence (New Zealand coin)/GA1

GA Review
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Reviewer: Sammi Brie (talk · contribs) 19:58, 17 March 2024 (UTC)

Copy changes and one minor housekeeping item on one image and you will have another GA. Ping me when done. Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 05:50, 18 March 2024 (UTC)


 * Made the copyedits and fixed the licensing error, thank you very much! Generalissima (talk) (it/she)

Copy changes

 * Equal to three pence, the coin was the smallest in size of all New Zealand pound coinage, and the smallest in denomination No need for this comma (WP:CINS)
 * The British pound sterling was confirmed as the sole legal tender in 1858, but had in effect been the sole circulating currency since 1847. Remove comma (CINS)
 * The Coinage Act 1933, outlined the weights and sizes of the six denominations of New Zealand silver coinage
 * Does the title of the act contain "The"? It's linked.
 * Remove comma
 * Although domestic firms offered to produce the coinage, the New Zealand government deemed that domestic facilities were not sufficient for mass production, and contracted with the Royal Mint for minting Remove second comma (CINS)
 * this designs as typo
 * Coates initially protested the modification, but conceded after Kruger Gray argued that a single mere would create a design that was lopsided and difficult to strike Remove comma or add "he" after "but".
 * he based the clubs off of two antique patu; one from the Ngāti Tūmatakōkiri colon, not semicolon
 * mid-March, 1934 Remove comma
 * Defending the coins, ethnologist Johannes Andersen described the patu design as unfairly criticised by ignorant New Zealanders, Remove comma at end (CinS)
 * as well as prooflike set produced missing "a"

Sourcing and spot checks
The most-used source is Hargreaves, and it's an offline source. I can spotcheck some other items:


 * 7 (Stocker 2005 pp145–146): This contains the Southern Rhodesian obverse details, information on Metcalfe and Kruger Gray, and an explanation that this was going to be designed in the UK no matter the local remonstrations. ✅
 * 10 (Royal Mint Museum): In the case of the letters s and d it is generally agreed that these stand for the Latin words solidus and denarius, originally Roman. The first use of these abbreviations to indicate shillings and pence given in the Oxford English Dictionary is dated 1387. ✅
 * 12 (Stocker 2011): Adoption of the hei-tiki motif in 1940 after it was rejected as too "fetal" by Sutherland in 1933. ✅
 * 18: Andersen mentions the ginger beer bottle shape and the upside-down orientation, suggesting future correction. ✅

Images
There are three images. Two are the sides of the coin, CC-licensed, from Museums Victoria. The Maori chief image does need a US public domain tag on it as well, but it should be PD there.