Could I Have Found A 2006 $1 Proof

What's the chances of someone who had owned other errors (or was even a coin collector for that matter) finding a gold dollar that doesn't match any known specifications?

Shanew either you are lying, have a multimillionaire bank account or have been working for the Royal Australian Mint and pocketing a few coins from the national collection. So I highly highly doubt that you own those coins. firstly there are very very few 1988 50 cent trials the last of which was sold almost 7 years ago to my knowledge and I find that one cent six pence mule you allegedly have is either fake or you dont actually posses it even if it was actually struck.

I find this highly doubtful because the six pence die would have been decommisioned (damaged to prevent unofficial strikes) or placed in the national collection making that a highly highly unlikely coin to have been produced especially if it was produced as late as 1976 as you allege it was.

Although if as you say actually posses these coins take a picture of them all within the same photo with a piece of paper displaying the date 18/01/13 and I will be the first to apologise to you. By the way dont even try using photoshop or editing the photo cause I can tell whether a coin has been photoshoped in an instance so dont try anything shifty.

Go on prove what I say is wrong

We as a community are very supportive and helpful to each other so I take great offence when you imply that it is anything else but.

Who would have guessed that the Poongsan Corporation has been sending out random megaweight Iridium planchets?

I was thinking that the stopper might be some unresolved issues with dies shattering, or planchets cracking during attempts to strike the coins...

Might also need to finish off with a fine plate of something to recreate that pesky Al/Br "fools gold" shine, as Iridium's natural state is a bit on the white and silvery side....

A 25 gram $1 coin would be very obvious. Most of the 2007 double headed 5c have been found by non-collectors, the bi-metal Australian dollar was found by a non-collector, the bi-metal 2001 20c was found by a non-collector. I agree with you completely that non-collectors are probably going to be unlikely to find a non-obvious error (like a mule).

well I never said I was a collector I invest in nice stuff and I think this is nice stuff heres the photo of my nice stuff





maybe some one should say sorry

Just read this thread so no idea what started this arguement but seriously who cares, it's just a forum for people to discuss the hobby, can't see how there would ever be anything to argue about on a coin forum (other than some light banter about slabbed vs raw coins or whether it's ok to clean and press banknotes).

Anyway I checked the pcgs population report and your claims dont match up firstly that 1983 20 cent ms64 pcgs says only one exists so you proclaim you own the only 1983 20 cent ms64 graded by pcgs? and secondly pcgs does not even recognise a 1978 one cent ever being graded ms62 so unless you can find something on the pcgs website that supports these claims then I am sorry but everyone here would be crazy to believe you over the biggest grading company in the world.

Part of the problem here (apart from the poor quality photos) is that the descriptions given of the coins are somewhat misleading, possibly due to a low level of knowledge regarding numismatics, and don't match what the coins actually are.

For instance, the "1983 20 struck on copper" is actually an Improperly Annealed/Sintered coin.

With regard to the "1976 1c on a sixpence", I suspect this has more to do with a special 10 year anniversary issue of decimal currency, than any genuine relation to a sixpence planchet, particularly when struck on 92% Ag and 8% Cu.