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Valued Member
Australia
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Valued Member
 Australia
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I just found that the $2 looks like roller marks but do we get them on australian coins? Rrrr I'm going to bed so sleepy
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Formerly nancyc
Australia
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I can't comment on the 20c coin, but the $2 is most likely a circulated proof. It's fairly common to find proofs in circulation, and I used to keep them all, but they're just curios really.
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Valued Member
 Australia
251 Posts |
Thanks for the info on the $2 its pretty cool looking in hand. With the other I know there is a 1979 Australian 20 cent struck on Nepalese Rupee planchet. 7.52 g but dose not add up with mine if there was one muck up there could be two  I sent pics of to a dealer but its been three days now and I haven't herd anything  I might have to send it of with a few others that need looking at. Now to find out what to do and how and were to send them them.....
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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It's a good question. I am curious - how did you figure out that the 20 cents coin is underweight? Did you try to use it in the vending machine and it was rejected, hence you decided to check the weight?
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Valued Member
 Australia
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Hi gxseries, No when I opened my wallet to put all my coins into the money box I spotted that it was a bit thinner than the others I have had it for about 8months and just cant find anything on it 
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Valued Member
 Australia
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All I have to do know is wait for a reply.... I just figured out to get looked at and verified sometimes thing are a bit easier than I realize  I know ill probably have to have a road trip but I am pretty frekin excited 
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Valued Member
 Australia
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I have conformation form the Australian Royal Mint that there is no other and they have not seen one of these 20 cent coins. Its going to be slabbed but not 100% sure on how it will happen ill hear back from Hong Kong PCGS I dare say tomorrow the US expert wants it submitted and there very keen for me to post it to them or to a authorized dealer before any testing from the mint but I dont think ill let the mint test it because they said in there email it could possibly do damage to the coin. So thats where its up to... thought id share even though this is the 3rd post in a row by myself.
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Valued Member
Australia
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Hi there, I'm wondering if you could put up a photo of the 20c coin side on, with a normal one next to it so I can get an idea of the width difference.
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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Frankly it couldn't have been manufactured from a Singaporean fifty cent blank as Singapore issues it's own coins and it has not been outsourced to the Royal Australian Mint for production at any point from the research I have done. Now if there was one struck from a Nepalese blank which measures 7.52g while this one weighs 9.56-7g it is impossible to be made from a Nepalese blank (the machines used to produce these coins would get it within a small range of 0.01's of from the target but it is highly unlikely one would be struck a couple of grams of! and then get through quality control would be nigh on impossible!
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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Actually I believe the coin it self may actually be a fake! I found the following article showing that a number of private individuals struck commemorative coins for Nepal and confirms they were in possession of cupro nickel blanks so I think someone found these blanks and decided to strike them as 20c coins resulting in what you see here as well as providing the explanation for why they are overweight as they were initially specially prepared commemorative planchets but have been forged into 20c coins (supports some of the poorer details on the coin prehaps?) Here is the link to the document http://naa-online.com/pdfjournal/Vo...icle%207.pdfThe special strikings apparently occurred in 1977 making it quite plausible
Edited by oh my florin 11/22/2013 03:03 am
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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I am fairly sure it's an elliptical clipped planchet.
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Valued Member
 Australia
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Another person has said the same because of the Beasley affect or close to the name of it, they also said it was a genuine underweight planchet. Surprisingly there was a coin and stamp fair on in Wagga today I meet a lovely older man who use to work at the Australian mint he was also a bit stunt and recommended that I do not sell it till PCGS slab it I was surprised at all his knowledge I could of listed to him all day if he was not bizzy he was telling me about the big strike the mint had and a lot of stuff I did not know.
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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Please specify which dealer it was as use to work for the Australian Mint is a pretty ambiguous and vague term in my opinion Also in terms of an underweight planchet I would be highly highly sceptical of that as in the multiple years I have spent within the hobby I have never come across a genuine underweight planchet I mean even back in 1910 the time of our first silver predecimal coin they could manage to always maintain a consistent weight and even in 1979 with even more advanced machinery designed to maintain the very slightest margins of error a coin to 0.1 or so of a gram to spit out a coin not 0.5 nor 1 nor 1.5 grams below the standard but close to 2 grams of equating to an massive 18% error I am absolutely convinced it was not mint made in any capacity. Secondly another reason for the underweight coin may have a common theme with one of shanew coins found in a bulk lot in which a coin retained all of it's detail but was only half the thickness of a proper coin which was concluded was due to subjecting it to an acid bath of some sort. Tho could you please post photo's of the rim and that should answer a lot of questions and doubts about the coin itself.
Edited by oh my florin 11/23/2013 09:43 am
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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Underweight planchet doesn't mean it's necessarily a planchet intended for another denomination. IMHO it's just a clipped planchet. Clipped planchets are underweight planchets too :)
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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I should add that I see clear evidence that this coin was struck underweight rather than being damaged afterwards. I also see evidence that it was rimmed while underweight. An elliptical clip (where a part of the planchet is removed that looks like a crescent moon) clearly explains everything that I see on that coin.
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