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Murazor Valued Member Poland 114 Posts	Posted 05/23/2011 03:05 am As you probably already know, Perth Mint disclosed some of their mintages and sales data. What made me interested is the "sales" column. As written in the footnotes it represent the sales status at 2010-05-31. Now take a look at the 2007 sheet. The last row of the first table states that there were 1188 of golden 1/25 platypuses sold. I have one of those coins and I had obtained it before May 2010. Yet the certificate number of my coin is... 1629! Note that the sales of that coin ended shortly after the mentioned date and now it cannot be purchased from the Mint. So I wonder are there many coins around with numbers higher than the sales table indicate. So if you have a Perth Mint coin from 2007 or earlier with its serial number higher than the appropriate value in the published mint tables - please post a note about that here! Edited by Murazor 05/23/2011 03:08 am Report this Post to the Staff

biggfredd Rest in Peace United States 9104 Posts	Posted 05/23/2011 08:20 am can't help with your research, but many numbering schemes start at 1001. Report this Post to the Staff
Murazor Valued Member Poland 114 Posts	Posted 05/23/2011 08:53 am Actually the number is 001629 so that's not the case. I've got the official statement from the Mint that not all coins were being sold (ugh, is this correct?) using consecutive certificate numbers. So there are coins with certificates showing higher numbers than the total sales were. I just wonder how many of them. (Hard to tell as unused certificates were destroyed when coins were re-melted.) Report this Post to the Staff
wesley Valued Member 195 Posts	Posted 05/24/2011 09:11 am RAM certificates have been known to have errors Report this Post to the Staff
Australian coin Pillar of the Community Australia 1244 Posts	Posted 05/24/2011 9:37 pm Sometime mints do re-print coins. I talked to the New Zealand mint about a coin that had originally had a 5,000 mintage and was sold out so they did it up to 10,000 and it was sold out again and they were going to do ANOTHER mint, and I am waiting on an email confirmation when the new ones come out. So sometimes the so called mintages mean nothing. The royal Australian mint has been known for doing a re-mint with the Fred hollows $1 coins. Report this Post to the Staff
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