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Pillar of the Community
 Australia
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Yay!
Got 20 of these yesterday at Safeway.
Poop that they broke the Armaguard bag, but they are all mine now.
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Valued Member
Australia
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first post here. I was waiting but I waited too long.... I got 5 of these in change last week in melb. Top it all off one has a rim Cud! |
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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> Gecko, welcome to CCF !
You've had more luck than I with these: I haven't got my first yet.
Peter, in Darwin
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Nice to find these in change at the supermarkets its great when you get these at face value
I will be buying them from RAM guaranteed quality unc better than almost unc for the coins minted in the millions
Wesley
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Bedrock of the Community
Australia
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Have not seen one yet in circulation. Thanks for the tip off, I will keep an eye out. I collect one of each new commemorative issued for circulation, just for fun. That includes aluminium bronze dollars copper nickel 50 cents and Twenty Cents. I wonder if the RAM will issue commemoratives in other denominations? |
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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You might well be better off collecting these fresh out of a security bag rather than waiting for rolls from the mint. Collectors would well know that the rolls of 50c and 20c coins released in the last few years have been plagued with coins either marked badly by the coin rolling machines or with bad roll friction due to very loosely wrapped rolls. In fact the Australia Day 50c rolls from 2010 were actually able to be returned to the mint for exchange because the quality was so poor. Rolling of the coins was conducted by an outside agency (probably a security company).
Perhaps they will be released in a PNC or collector card, which would be the best way of getting them from the RAM.
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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Markn,
You beat me to it. The coins in the rolls purchased at the mint have not been of a high quality. I've opened a few and the majority were very badly bagmarked. The only difference in value between rolls from circulation and rolls from the mint is the RAM wrapping.
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Australia
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I bought 2010 Australia Day 50c rolls from the Mint Shop during a visit there and they were loose and awful. I returned them to their reply paid address and they replaced them with new one's at no cost. They were out of stock for quite a while so I assume that was when they were being fixed. Trouble is I think they were unwrapped and rerolled which means even more bagmarks. The replacement rolls were really no better. The rolling is outsourced to another company.
I'd rather get security rolls and pay face value or close to when that's the sort of quality you get.
I am yet to get one of these womens day coins in change, it's all Wills and Kate around my area.
Edited by the-purple-penny
06/04/2011 12:44 am
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Valued Member
United States
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OK couple questions? New person here!
Where would you buy RAM rolls? and what are RAM rolls?
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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RAM rolls are authentic,security rolls are not and content in the security rolls is often contaminated with older circulated coins,And thats a fact
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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RAM rolls are authentic,security rolls are not and content in the security rolls is often contaminated with older circulated coins,And thats a fact Quite true Peter. Certainly if you want full guaranteed rolls of the coins then RAM rolls are the only way to be sure. The quality of the coins in those rolls is what we were talking about though. |
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Australia
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....content in the security rolls is often contaminated with older circulated coins,And thats a fact
If I were to find a single roll with current coins on either end, I'd open it, as I agree with the above. However, The rolls I have sourced have been in sacks, weighed and sealed. When they are all 'new' I have a fair degree of confidence in the roll's contents. That is not to say that it can't or hasn't happened, simply that I have never, ever had a problem with (new)security company rolls when acquired in bulk. I'll re-post my previous experience with the APEC $1. I bought a security bag of $1000 in rolls. I opened all of them, examined each under a 10 x loupe and kept 40 GEMS (no bagmarks, no nicks, well struck. There was not one other year coin amongst them. I have done the same with 2004, 2005, 2006 and other $1 coin rolls. I have opened 100s of other denominations as well. Never found a coin, that was not representative of the entire lot. Lots of errors but no dodgies. |
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Pillar of the Community
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I just bought a new one for $4 delivered  |
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