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Valued Member
Australia
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Oh don't you hate that Gecko! I am finding it hard to spend any coins at all, just incase! Infact I had to accept the kindness of a stranger to pay my parking because I had put all my coins away & left my wallet empty!
Coin madness :)
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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My work colleague knows I collect coins and is actually looking at coins for me. He's obviously sick. LOL
However, yesterday he gave me a $2 coin with most of the obverse legend missing. Great strikethrough. I think it might be 2009, but need to look at thriough a loupe. He looked at it because it was 'shiny'. He was looking for the rabbit ears that I had told him about previously. Wrong coin, but great find!
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Valued Member
 Australia
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Quote:
He looked at it because it was 'shiny'. He was looking for the rabbit ears that I had told him about previously. Wrong coin, but great find!  Yass, that's classic! I'll be laughing for months over that quote. Ahhh, just beautiful! ha ha ha |
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
560 Posts |
This would have something to do with the milling of the side of the coin.
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Valued Member
Australia
216 Posts |
Can't quite make it out but are the "dots" innies or outies? In dents would indicate PMD maybe, (Nancyc don't hit me, I'm not arguing with you.  ) while lumps would be Cuds maybe, or even die damage. Either way more investigation would be required. |
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Formerly nancyc
Australia
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I don't hit people!  Everyone is entitled to their own opinion.  From my experience these dots are always 'innies', and I believe they are caused by impact with maybe part of the collar, or something that is related to the interrupted reeding. I also believe that this impact happens at some stage of the minting process. It only ever occurs on the rim of the coin, if it was just general 'impact', it would occur anywhere on the coins surface. Also look at the picture on P1, the indentations are lined up very neatly along the outside edge of the rim, how likely is that general impact is always going to be this neat? There are usually five of them (which is the number of grooves in the reeding), and as concerned said in his 1st post, they aren't necessarily in line with the reeding on the coin, but their existence is definitely connected to the reeding. I firmly believe that it's not PMD. JMHO.  I used to keep them all, but I culled them so I'm not sure that I kept any. I'll have to check. If I find any, I'll post some more images, but don't hold your breath waiting for them.  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 agree with Nancy's last comment. I have seen quite a few of these & always wondered exactly what it was. I spoke to a few people maybe three years ago at an ANDA show in Melbourne & one of them mentioned reeding. Quote:
Nancy "There are usually five of them (which is the number of grooves in the reeding), and as concerned said in his 1st post, they aren't necessarily in line with the reeding on the coin, but their existence is definitely connected to the reeding." In my personal opinion this is NOT PMD!They are different, but if anyone has a go at noodling decent quantities of $2, you're likely to find one, tow or a few. I think it may be something that's quite common amongst the $2 coins which are slightly mis-struck. I've included a couple pictures below: The reverse side of the 1998 coin below:  The obverse (I kept because of the reasonable mis-strike on it):  A 1999 example of the obverse but with the opposite issue.  I probably have more laying around the house, just don't know where they'd be at the moment. |
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Looks to me like milling of the side of the coin,not an error whatsoever
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
869 Posts |
B...I...N...G...O...b..i..n..g..o..b..i..n..g..o & bingo was its name-o.
Milling, reeding, collar in the minting process. What do we call it? Is it just as simple as that?
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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Are you thinking Partial Collar Goatie ? Tilted Collar ?
Edited by appleangel07
06/14/2012 11:22 am
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Valued Member
Australia
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I'll be going through some $2 coins tomorrow so will look out for whatever this is. Will post pictures if I find any.
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
507 Posts |
It would appear to be a [partial] re-strike making contact with the collar.
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Formerly nancyc
Australia
5385 Posts |
OK, I think the correct term for this may be 'collar clash'. I googled 'collar clash' and found quite a lot of pictures, mostly more pronounced than the one pictured here, but the coins in the pictures all had continuous reeding, and our $2 coin has interrupted reeding, so I reckon what Concerned has is a collar clash, so now we know what to call it. Concerned, is your $2 very slightly off centre? Time to search for some of my examples now.  life is a mystery to be lived not a problem to be solved
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Valued Member
Australia
148 Posts |
Just went through a few $2 coins (about $800 )and this is what I found.
Some were related to off centre strikes. Looks like they appear mainly on 1999 and 2009 at the 7:00 o'clock position with 5 dots on the reverse side but does appear on other years in reverse and obverse locations with varying number of dots.
year side dots position (clock)
1999 rev 5 7:00
2009 rev 5 7:00
2009 rev 8 7:00
2000 obv 5 2:00
1998 rev 6 6:00
1999 rev 5 7:00
2007 rev 5 6:00
2009 rev 3 6:30
1997 obv 5 7:00
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