Anyone Heard About This Set 2006 Error Mule 20 Cents

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Originally posted by Brissyboy

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Originally posted by PNC king

BTW has greg macdonald been told of this discovery yet ?

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Yes, I have advised Greg and sent him the photographs I had received.

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will this information you sent him make it in time for this years catalougue

Actualy I had got the story it was a geniune error.
This was a true error not a made up one there has been sightings a talks about this on a positive note.
The person who lodged the complain to ebay did bark at the wrong tree

Please can you tell us more about the mule 20c. coin? I hear that there was a $2 coin that was muled with the obverse of the 5c. coin a few years ago.Does anyone know of this coin?

Aidan.

PNC is correct in a sence. It appears some 2006 Proof Sets so far number unknown but one set has been verified, has a Proof 20 cents dated 2005 with a Platypus reverse. All 2005 Proof 20 cent coins for the 2005 Proof Set had a commemorative reverse for the 60th anniversary of the end of World War 2. The 2006 dated Proof 20 cents has the Platypus reverse. So it appears there was a mismatching of dies - 2006 reverse and 2005 obverse. The Royal Australian Mint was unaware this error had occurred until an Adelaide person who bought the set off ebay from a Brisbane coin dealer, contacted them about it. The set was sold privately to another Adelaide collector for a large sum.

This is the second mule coin to appear in 2006 Proof sets. Early this year it was revealled a number of sets thought to be no more than 40 and possibly less than 30 had a Proof 2005 dated Mob of Kangaroos $1. Just as for the 20 cent, the 2005 proof dollar in 2005 Proof sets had a commemorative reverse while the 2006 Proof dollar in 2006 Proof sets had the Mob of Roos. Three sets have been offered on ebay so far all fetching over AUS$3,050. One ended today for AUS$3,050. The Mint knew about this error and tried to pull any error sets but as we know now some got out - around 5 went to same Brisbane dealer, around 20 went to Downies in Melbourne and possibly another 1 went to Sydney. It was discovered when a customer returned an error set to Downies wanting a replacement. Downies then sold the proof sets for just under AUS$2,000 each. Issue price on a normal set was $95.

Now as for any $2/5cent mules, it is untrue. There has not been any years that produced a mule. Some have rim errors or similar that give the impression of a double rim. Comparison of the obverse's head of Queen Elizabeth II with that of a normal $2 show they are the same size and with a 5 cent obverse that it is larger. Australia's decimal mules are listed elsewhere in this Forum under World Coins.

I feel it my duty to let any new error collectors here know there is no such thing as a mule edge or mule look edge. These coins are not even off centre strikes, they are very common offset dies. For face value plus post I could supply the whole forum with 1 each in a day of looking.

Obviously you didnt email my yahoo adderess as forum members have known to do for months. I dont see what my sales to you have got to do with this forum but for the books I only ever sold genuine mules and have never used the term mule in a listing for anything but.
Unfortunately I had little choice either.
My apologies to this forum, I was just making a valid point about these coins.
A coin is either a mule or its not, no inbetweens, no look alikes etc.

Please let me apologise for getting back on topic.

A 2006 set containing 2005 platypus 20c sold yesterday fro $3900. This is a reasonable price considering that a 1988 50c with coast of arms reverse sold at an IAG aucion a few weeks ago for $5400. I'd consider the 1988 50c a much more desirable coin as there are only a few known in any form whereas there are millions of circulation issue 2005 platypus 20c.