Two Dollars Mystery

I'm leaning towards a post-mint damage, i.e. whacked by a hammer or some heavy object with irregular surface but higher resolution photos will definately help.

Davidson, your image will greatly help if you play around with your scanner settings. Most scanners are set at default at 300dpi but should be able to go to 600 dpi easily. I'm not too sure what your model is but chances are it should have an option to increase the resolution unless it's a really old model.

Is there a hump in the middle or is it just the lighting? If there is, I reckon post-mint damage.. If its not, then it shall make things a little more interesting

The value of something like this is very subjective, it will probably only appeal to error collectors, assuming they think it is an error. If you were to put it on ebay, you may be lucky and get $20, or you may get no bids.

It is a difficult one to try and say for certain what caused this, but thanks for posting it and giving us a chance to try and figure it out.

Sorry guys. Not really satisfied. So refreshing this topic for further deliberations pls. I'm picking up from markn.
Hello Markn,

Once again I've reweighed the coin on another scale also a digital scale (Quartzell NCI) used for mails. So this would have some trustworthingness.The reading I got was 0.007. I then weighed a 2006 $2.00 and it weighed exactly the same. I've dissected some pics for you to evaluate-
first is the obverse and reverse


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Second shows part of the rim which obviously the upsetting mill had indented. The tips of the crown and the legend part 'A' and 'U' are quite visible.

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Third is the "A" and 'U'


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Fourth is the neck and chin lines.


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The eyes, nose and mouth

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The second is the tip of the hair

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the tail end of no.2 and


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Lastly the native plant.

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I think the coin is genuine and not a fake. Obviously it had passed through a lot of hands. Could it be categorized as a spectacular error? What error category can I place it under? Are there a lot of errors like this with aussie decimal coins?

Hi markn,

I was told 0.007 is in milligrams. Converted would be 7 grams or rounded to the nearest gram. I hope the advise I got is correct. Yes a jewellers scale would have been more appropriate. Anyway the point is that the weight is the same as the 2006 $2.00.

even a .4-.5 gram variance is pretty substantial for a coin, and well within the accuracy of jeweler scales.