Found A 2000 Millennium Incused Today :)

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Australian coin Pillar of the Community Australia 1244 Posts	Posted 11/14/2011 02:22 am Found a 2000 millennium incused today added pics to my page http://pinkflowercoin.webs.com/coinstolookfor.htm this is my second one, and it will probably be on the market soon, as I can only keep one for my set. what are these going for now days? Report this Post to the Staff

Jeff Pillar of the Community Australia 877 Posts	Posted 11/14/2011 02:30 am Well done And I found one last week. Good to see them appearing. Mine isn't top condition but an incused is an incused. Jeff Edited by Jeff 11/14/2011 02:31 am Report this Post to the Staff
dibby33 Valued Member Australia 465 Posts	Posted 11/14/2011 03:52 am Nice work both of you :-) Report this Post to the Staff
sel_69l Bedrock of the Community Australia 21788 Posts	Posted 11/14/2011 03:55 am Why are there two different varieties? My guess is that the incuse version was used for the colourised version in the sets. Report this Post to the Staff
Australian coin Pillar of the Community Australia 1244 Posts	Posted 11/14/2011 06:11 am Have done a bit of looking around and the proof 50c coin was not stamped at all with a flag design, it was painted on the coin. No Incused coins have been found in mint sets that I know of I think this is a case of one die was made, they minted the approx 200,000 circulation coins from it, and for some reason didn't continue with the same design when it came time to relace the die. It may have been as simple as the die dint actually produce the number of cons it was designed for and failed early, thus they had to go back to the drawing board and slightly change the design. Report this Post to the Staff
Peter THOMAS Pillar of the Community Australia 2830 Posts	Posted 11/14/2011 06:26 am I recall reading that some of these were made at The Royal Mint in Wales. Apparently a die needed some sort of repair, and at the end of that process, the incuse was born ... I am happy to stand corrected on that, because I can't recall the source ... Report this Post to the Staff
sel_69l Bedrock of the Community Australia 21788 Posts	Posted 11/14/2011 07:15 am Thankyou Australian coin. That's my question answered comprehensively! Report this Post to the Staff
steve - Oz 50c man Valued Member Australia 490 Posts	Posted 11/14/2011 1:47 pm My understanding is as follows: The incused design was originally going to be used for one of the sets (possibly a limited edition mint set / baby edition / wedding edition / special Millennium edition - I haven't been able to get info on this bit, but as there seems to have only been one incused die it does point towards a limited production run of some type). A worker at the RAM mistakenly used the limited edition die in the normal circulation production run. By the time someone noticed, approximately 200,000 coins were produced in the run for circulation and were subsequently released into circulation. As the die had already been used for the circulating production run, it was not used for the "limited production run" and the the "limited production run" was either canceled or they simply used the standard millennium die for the mint set (or whatever set it was planned for) and dropped the "limited" production. The RAM has never officially said anything apart from confirming that there are approximately 200,000 of these that were released for circulation, so there is no way to tell. Peter's info above could equally be correct and mine incorrect... and I have heard other theories as well... we may never know for sure... Report this Post to the Staff
AaronG Pillar of the Community Australia 518 Posts	Posted 11/16/2011 6:01 pm I have noodled over $2000 worth of 50c pieces and still haven't found one! Hoping ill get one soon though :) Report this Post to the Staff
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