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triggersmob Pillar of the Community Australia 9410 Posts	Posted 06/06/2006 7:09 pm Hey Buffaloboy, If you have a Aussie 20 cent from 1964, it is a fake. Decimal currency started 1966, before this it was pounds, shillings and pence. Steve Report this Post to the Staff
Sap Moderator Australia 16831 Posts	Posted 06/06/2006 7:29 pm quote: Originally posted by cladking Stuart Devlin designed this coin and dozens of others of the finest coins in the modern era. The early versions of this issue are scarce in uncirculated condition. Demand was non-existent until the early '90's but now there are a few collectors for these. Some of his other designs are far scarcer and can be had for almost nothing. In an interview just printed in the Australasian Coin & Banknote magazine, Stuart Devlin himself descibes the platypus 20¢ as "undoubtedly the best coin I have designed". Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis Report this Post to the Staff
empfan1 New Member United States 45 Posts	Posted 06/06/2006 8:07 pm Thanks everyone and thanks for the info about the coin. It's nice to know a little about it since I was lucky enough to get another one back . To Daniel J. Goevert, no I wasn't working here at the time, I lost it somewhere in Monterey, Ca. I'm working some 50 miles north of there now. That's what's so cool about finding another one after all these years. Report this Post to the Staff
toast Pillar of the Community Australia 1091 Posts	Posted 06/07/2006 06:01 am OK, the percentage of 1977 20c coins out of all the 20c coins minted is approximately 0.3%, So after finding an Australian 20c coin the odds of it being a 1977 is 1 out of 330. Report this Post to the Staff
empfan1 New Member United States 45 Posts	Posted 06/11/2006 3:50 pm Whoa![:0], I guess that would quit literally be the odds, But do those odds apply to finding one in Australia or to finding one in the U.S.[:p]? P.S. sorry for the late reply Edited by empfan1 06/11/2006 3:51 pm Report this Post to the Staff
toast Pillar of the Community Australia 1091 Posts	Posted 06/11/2006 8:35 pm Whoops, I doubled checked my figures and found I made a mistake. The correct percentage of the 1977 coin is 3% not .3% so that changes the odds. So, a random find of an Aussie 20c would be a 1977 coin is 1 in 33. The odds that the first two Aussie 20c coins you come across are BOTH the 1977 coin is 1 in 1089. Report this Post to the Staff
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