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Bedrock of the Community
Australia
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Caused by a small die gouge or chip that has been indented into the face of the die.
I would assume that there are others in circulation, but I won't speculate how many.
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I have been through a fear few thousand and only found one :) I will keep looking and post results in a few months on the roll hunting forum. Thanks for your reply sel_691
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New Zealand
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I have been through well over 10,000 $1 coins now and I am obviously always looking through my (and anyone else close to mes') change,,, I have still only ever found this one (pictured above) and I have never seen any others on any websites or anything like that. I am hunting hard!
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Formerly nancyc
Australia
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It's a very nice find and don't give up looking.  Depending on where you are, if you can, try to ensure you aren't getting coins you've already searched by getting them from a different Bank/Branch than the one you return them to. There would have to be more examples out there.  life is a mystery to be lived not a problem to be solved
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Bedrock of the Community
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How many 2010 dollars were struck?
Average die life is around 100,000 strikes.
The tear drop certainly would have NOT been there when the die was new, but a fault has happened sometime during the die's life. Therefore not a die variety, where they all would have exhibited the same fault off the same die, and thus these coins would have been easier to find.
A variety, nevertheless, and apparently much scarcer than a die variety.
That will give you some sort of clue as to how many obverse dies were used for the 2010 Dollar, and some sort of idea how scarce this particular variety may be.
If you can't find any more like this one for a 2010 dollar, that would suggest that the fault has developed very late in the die's life, which is what you would expect, and may have led to the die being pulled from production, before 100,000 or so had been produced.
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New Member
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I have found about 15 of these errors so far but they are the harder one to find. 2010 $1 are still being released in New Zealand a lot went into circulation at Christmas time but there still could be more of this error still to be released by the reserve bank. I am receiving 1/4 of a crate of UNC $1 coins later today (not sure why I think I went a little crazy) so will confirm they are still 2010 and as I normally do I will record errors and % in that lot then compare to other smaller lots I have searched. Then I better deposit them back into the bank before my wife sees the money missing in the account lol.
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New Member
New Zealand
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Edited by MUDEKI
04/03/2014 8:20 pm
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Formerly nancyc
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Wow, that's a beauty, nice progression of the die too. life is a mystery to be lived not a problem to be solved
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nice to see the progression from crack to Cud. thanks! I will be putting up a new topic soon, for those of us interested in the errors amongst ciculating New Zealand coins. I would love to meet some of the identities I have spoken with online and would also love to introduce an avid collector I know, age 11 this kid has almost superman eyes and an amazing selection of die cracked coins taken from circulation recently. a cup of tea meeting anyone?! |
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