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The coins that I have that I expect (hope)to rise in value are: - 40 Years of Decimal Currency - $1 Proof Mule
- 50th Anniversary of Television - no mint mark (I have two)
 - 1966 Wavy 20 cent
- 2000 Mule $1
- 'Goose' $1
- Counterstamped $1s
- 1972 high quality 5 cent
- 1960's 2 cent
Edited by Yass
12/09/2011 6:06 pm
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Would the 50 Cent 'incuse flag' be a sleeper? I have never seen one.
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1977 ten cent piece is a low mintage, strangely I dont seem much about them. I found 3 over the last 7-8 days in change.
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Would the 50 Cent 'incuse flag' be a sleeper? I have never seen one.
I would think so, certainly the high quality ones. |
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1977 ten cent piece is a low mintage, strangely I dont seem much about them. I found 3 over the last 7-8 days in change.
I asked a question about this coin in another thread. The 1977 10c has a lower mintage than the 1972 10c but I have found that in my noodlings the 1977 10c has been about 5 times more common. It is interesting that I'm not the only one to find them more common than they have any right to be. |
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MobOfRoos,
The mintage is only one part.
The proportion of them to the total number made makes them more (or less) easy to find.
The 1972 5c is .2 of a percent of the total number 5 cent pieces produced up until 2008.
I have not done the same calculations for the 10 cent coins, but it appears that the 1977 10c is a higher proportion of the coins produced.
1977 is also newer, so there will have been less time for natural attrition.
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ozcoins, I was comparing the 1977 10c to the 1972 10c.
The 1977 10c has a mintage of 10,940,000 whereas the 1972 10c has a mintage of 12,502,000. The 1972 10c has been circulating for 5 more years but considering that both coins are over 30 years old I wouldn't think it would make a huge difference to the relative numbers in circulation at present.
My estimation is that there should be about the same number of 1977 10c in circulation as there are 1972 10c (allowing for 5 extra years of attrition). My noodling however indicates that there are significantly more 1977 10c than there are 1972 10c.
To get this back on topic I will say that low mintage decimal coins are the "sleepers".
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only 5 years difference from 72 to 77, I'm hanging onto every one I find :)
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Hi MobOfRoos,
My reference to 5c should have had "for example" in front of it.
That might make more sense.
Your estimate that the 72 and 77 10 cents should be about the same sounds fair enough to me.
I found a strange thing when I first started noodling 5 cent coins to make full sets.
For quite some time I had more 72s than 78s.
It was not until I had 8 of each that the 78s overtook the 72s.
From the numbers made and other factors like age and 72s being collected from circulation, I would never have expected that to happen.
Also back on topic I agree completely that the rarer decimal coins are real sleepers.
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I aspire to the no mintmark $1's. It's one of the big ticket items that I don't have in my collection. Mark and I were reminiscing about a collector at an ANDA show a few years ago who took her portable press dollar back because it didn't have a mintmark......d'oh -I'll take that off your hands ma'am. They already command a high price though so I wouldn't call them sleepers. Lucky to those who "got" one for $10 or less! I believe the Land Series Frilled Lizard to be a big sleeper. http://www.australian-threepence.co...-series.htmlEdited by the-purple-penny
12/11/2011 02:28 am
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Hope Land Series Frilled Lizard to be the big sleeper
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