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Where Are The Mintmarks On New Zealand Decimal Coins ?

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Where are the mintmarks on New Zealand decimal coins, please ?

The KM catalogue lists lots of mints but annoyingly (at least the 2008) doesn't say how to distinguish between them.
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I don't think there are any actual "mintmarks", in the usual sense of the word.

I recall seen a display of New Zealand coins at a local coin club, where the owner pointed how the differences in design details (particularly in the shape and detail of the queen's hair) indicated the different source mints of the coins.

As far as I know, they haven't had two different mints issue the same denomination coins for them in the same year (except for mint sets, which are often made in a different mint to circulation coins), so it usually doesn't matter for a date-and-mintmark collector.
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That's a pity.

I bought a mixed lot at auction.

Some of the New Zealand decimal coins look like proofs, some look prooflike with bagmarks, some just uncirculated with lustre, I was hoping that the mintmarks would help me determine which was in which category.
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What mints are listed for the 2008 issues?

I would have thought that with New Zealand decimals, unless it's in a proof set assume it's a business strike.
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Here is some information from the Reserve Bank of New Zealand

http://www.rbnz.govt.nz/currency/mo...0094086.html

Royal Mint: 1967, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1990, 1991, 1994, 1995, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2008

Royal Australian Mint: 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974 and 1988

Royal Canadian Mint: 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1989, 2000, 2006, 2007 and 2008

Norwegian Mint: 1996 and 1997 (Cupro-Nickel coins only)

South African Mint Company: 1997 ($2 coins only), 1998, and 1999

No coins struck for general circulation: 1968, 1992 and 1993

I guess 2008 is an exception but other years should be easy.
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Looking at the 2008, 2009, 2010 RAM annual reports, I can only see a 2007 uncirculated set and a 2009 proof set (there's also some NCLT).
I can't find a big image of the proof set but I'm guessing the coins would have frosted features, so they should be easy to tell.
I don't know if there's any difference between the 2007 set and circulation coins but it's unlikely that many set coins would have ended up in circulation.
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