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Pillar of the Community
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Yes it is a 25c coin.
Looks like I have one of these after all. I will check my mail when I get home. |
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Valued Member
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thank for the help
unfortunately they are not sold on their own
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Buy the set, bust it open, sell the holey dollar and keep the dump
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NCLT - don't be sucked in !
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I agree; I have never really been into NCLT. I am not keen with collector products that are marketed. That's just me.
I usully react negatively to advertising or marketing of any sort, except when I actually NEED a product, THEN I proactively go looking.
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I'm sure you'll be pleased to know that they are planning to release a 60 (sixty) cent coin in the near future - how's that for pure fantasy?
A design, in proof finish, consisting of:
(a) a representation of the Australian Olympic Committee logo; and
(b) a representation of a double-decker bus; and
(c) representations of a cathedral dome, a ferris-wheel and a clock tower in the background; and
(d) the following:
(i)‘©';
(ii)‘2012';
(iii)‘60c';
(iv)‘AUSTRALIA';
(v)‘P'
The representations of the Australian Olympic Committee logo, ‘60c', ‘AUSTRALIA' and the representation of a double-decker bus are in colour finish
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Valued Member
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i totaly agree with enworb , buy the set , keep what you want and sell the other ,, but pray tell why would you want one without the other or is is just a query to see if aust ever had a 1/4 coin or not ..
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Here is what these little suckers look like, Chunky little things.  |
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I guess the only way of obtaining one of these is to buy the pair.
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Valued Member
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i wonder how they cut it out of the big coin ? must have been a big job with the 1813 ones ,, kel ,,
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Pillar of the Community
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A complete guess but a very quick and strong blow with a sharp ring?
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I'm sure the original dollar and dumps were a lot thinner.
The new ones are real chunky
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re-reading this thread, a few thoughts occur to me:
the original Holey Dollar of 1813 was struck from a Spanish Dollar (a.k.a. Piece of Eight; or Eight Reales).
The "Dump" struck out of the dollar was valued at a quarter of a dollar, and the remaining annulus was given a value, by law, in NSW, of one dollar, even although a big chunk of it was separated. Back then, a dollar was equivalent to five shillings, so the dump was 15 pence.
When the NCLT "tributes" appeared, they had to be denominated. The annulus was given a value of one modern Australian (post-1966) dollar. And the Dump, being one-quarter, was 25 cents. Which is all very neat, but as I'm not a fan of NCLT, I won't go on about it.
The sixty-cent coin mentioned above: I expect that that will be NCLT only; and I assumed that it was denominated as sixty, because this is the 60th Anniversary of the accession of H.M. Queen Elizabeth.
In 1935, the Bank of Canada issued a commemorative $25-note, to mark the Silver Jubilee of King George V. The Canadian system has $20 and $50, but not usually a $25.
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The sixty-cent coin mentioned above: I expect that that will be NCLT only; and I assumed that it was denominated as sixty, because this is the 60th Anniversary of the accession of H.M. Queen Elizabeth. The 60 cents comes from the fact that it's a "stamp" issue in coin form - similar to one they did a few years back where they got caught out by the change in postage rates, where they had received approval to issue a 55c coin (which remained at that legal tender amount) even though the final product was displayed a 60c value to match the stamp. |
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