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New Member
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Hi All I recently discovered this forum and noticed there are a lot of decimal collectors. I am wondering if anyone can help me. I recently found this 2 cent coin missing the SD initials. However, it is a 1966 coin and I thought it did not occure in this year. Can anyone tell me how 'common' the variety is in the 1966? Image below Your help is much apreciated Image:  2cent.jpg100.01 KB |
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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Honestly never heard of or seen one before. Could be pretty rare.
Anyway welcome to the forum
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Formerly nancyc
Australia
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life is a mystery to be lived not a problem to be solved
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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oh so there were some.. and not very rare? I have't searched my 66's for missing initials yet :P
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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Just searched through 48 1966 2¢ pieces and mine all have SD. I do have a 1969 without SD but that's from a strikethrough grease by the look of it.
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New Member
 Australia
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Thanks For the link. Sounds like it is most common in the 1966. I probably looked through a couple of hundred 2 cent coins. I found 3 1966 with missing SD's but at closer inspection found that two actually had traces of the SD's visible under high magnification. Perhaps they represent various stages of the filled die.
Edited by Coinsearcher
06/03/2008 07:24 am
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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There's a 1966 missing SD on Oztion BIN for $24.99 at the moment.
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Formerly nancyc
Australia
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There used to be a seller on ebay regularly offering 2¢ missing SD's. Haven't been following them lately, only 2 for sale at present, 1967 & 1981, different sellers. life is a mystery to be lived not a problem to be solved
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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i just looked thru all mine, one missing SD ou of about 70
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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1966 leajet, btw I just checked again, it does have SD just fairly worn
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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where is the sd located? Now for the big question do the aussie coins have different mints also?
Okay after reading the thread a bit closer I got it figured out. Missed the link that showed where to look
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06/05/2008 03:25 am
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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to the left of the right claw
yes they do, Pre-Decimals were made at Perth and Melbourne, nowadays they're all made at Canberra, I think
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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any way to tell what mint? I feel a bad things is gonna happen here hehehe.
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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the sharpness of the claws on one of the sides, I forgot which one
for 1966 I think 2nd claw sharp is the lowest mintage mint.
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Posted 06/03/2008 06:20 am
to the forum. Check out this article by Ian Hartshorn:
