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Formerly nancyc
Australia
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life is a mystery to be lived not a problem to be solved
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Bedrock of the Community
Australia
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There are a couple of good videos on pad printing to be found on You Tube.
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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I had a squizz on YouTube Sel, Very interesting and high tech. I am still no closer to solving the mystery about the existence of the incused millennium coin but  Someone in the mint knows but they ain't telling us nothing  |
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Bedrock of the Community
Australia
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trout1105: It seems that the pad printing technique works best on flat surfaces, or at least a surface with no sharp changes in the surface.
Which leaves me in the same mystery as yourself, as to why an incuse die variation would have been produced in the first place.
I am glad they did! It gives us curious numistmatists something to look out for!
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Valued Member
Australia
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Good job. Congratulations! I'm still looking!
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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Maybe the die engraver had a big friday night and was working early saturday morning overtime?
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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Maybe the die engraver had a big friday night and was working early saturday morning overtime? i am certain that this was not a "mistake " by the engraver. It is a totally different design, not only on the union jack but the stars are different as well. Unless one of the engravers took in on themselves to do this , it must have been commissioned and there should be a record of it somewhere at the mint. If there is such a record then it will give us an answer as to why the coin was minted and a rough estimate of the number of coins produced. Thinking about this is doing my head in |
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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Maybe a very big friday night?
I agree it is too big of a difference to simply be a mistake by the engraver. There must be someting else behind it for sure.
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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I wonder if the incuse is a leftover proof die or trial die  I'm still waiting for my 2000 proof set to arrive so that I can have a close look at the 50 cent coino  |
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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Oh and the proof flag has a large gap between the rim at each end of the flag, normal mint and circulation strikes have a flag that spreads the length of the coin.
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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Proof 50c has an entirely flat flag underneath, as they only like to pad printing on a flat surface Thanks AC, Great info  Bugger now I'm even more confused as to how the incused coin came about |
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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It cant be a proof die. As AC has pointed out the flag is flat. It could possibly be a trial pattern that wasnt chosen but my money is on human error. A big error at that.
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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I read somewhere that the incused was the die for the mint sets, but got mixed up and put into circulation production.
And that does sound like the most logical reason why there was only one die made.
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Pillar of the Community
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Do you think the mint set coin would have been deliberately different to the circulation coin?
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penny dreadful, well done! 
Posted 07/07/2012 02:20 am
