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Both are now in the Odds and Sods collection. Excellent!  |
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Another addition to my O+S collection. This one is a well-worn 1994 $1 mob of roos coin with something of interest on each side. The obverse has a minor planchet flaw and the reverse has a "rabbit ear" die chip.   |
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Bedrock of the Community
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Nice find, SallyG. Errers and Varietys.
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Very nice! |
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Thank you Errers and Varietys and jbuck for your replies. I just found this 2006 $2 coin that looks to be an off-centre strike. I have always wanted one but was expecting an off-centre strike to be something from years ago. Certainly wasn't expecting something so modern. Anyway so stoked to have found one.   |
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Bedrock of the Community
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That's a pretty cool find, Sally!
Inordinately fascinated by bits of metal with strange markings and figures
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Fantastic find! |
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Found this $1 2001 upset coin in a bag of $1 coins today. 90 degrees out of whack is pretty cool I think. A welcome addition to my "O+S" collection.   |
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Nice find! |
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Bedrock of the Community
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Great find!  Errers and Varietys.
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Thanks jbuck and Errers and Varietys. Here is another oddity for my collection. It is a 1995 $2 coin with what appears to be extra metal pressed down on the obverse. There is a thin strip of metal running from the rim to the forehead going through the "A" of Australia. I have no idea how it would have got there. Anyway, something different so into the O+S collection it goes.   |
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Very interesting! |
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I have been putting " Rim Fin" $2 coins aside when I have been noodling. Today I decided to get the box of "fins" out and sort through them (yeah, OK, that probably makes me a bit of a fruit loop for putting such coins aside but I like things out of the ordinary). Anyway, I have managed to find rim fins for all standard designs issued for circulation since first issue 1988 up until 2018 - except for 1989! Most of the fins appear on the obverse, some appear on both sides but fins on the reverse weren't that common. Can anyone suggest a reason why that happens? I doubt such coins are of any real value beyond face value so I will pick out the best examples and send the rest back to the bank for a 'refund'. The most interesting coins I found in the box were these two. One is a Greaser that doesn't appear to have any finning (dunno how it found its way into the box but it's a keeper) and the other is missing one number from the date ( Greaser too?) and has a slight fin above and behind the Queen's head. I guess two 'errors' makes it a worthy addition to the "odds and sods" collection. I wonder if anyone else out there collects out of the ordinary but low value coins - or am I the only fruit loop here?  |
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