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Valued Member
Australia
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Page 99 and 100 in the 2014 Greg McDonald Australian Coin and Banknotes price guide has everything you need to know about this issue. As stated in the description in the book, they average 1 in 10 as the proof like strike. In 2008 they inspected 101 coins and found 5 of type 1 and 6 of type 2.
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05/08/2015 03:50 am
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Valued Member
Australia
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NGC counts the "proof like" strikes under proofs in their population reports but state "proof like type ..." on the labels
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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funny because I have inspected several hundred in the last 12 months and only located a handful of which only a couple were in gradable problem free condition
further more NGC has not identified the proof strike but rather have attributed coins with proof like fields as being proof like strikes. they don't know the diagnostic die markers it would seem
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Australia
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Okay thanks serial. Where will it be published?
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Australia
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I actually dont know, I was under the impression that they would be most likely be published in the Australian coins and banknote magazine
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Australia
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NGC are clueless in identifying the proof Centenaries. Last March I picked up a type 2 proof that is labeled MS62 (NGC number 3896485-029). At usd 415 it was a fair price IF it was only a circulation strike, in proof though  |
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Australia
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I picked up a couple myself in a recent auction and as Serial said earlier
I too will be happy to quietly buy them while many dealers and collectors are
denying their existence
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Australia
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It seems a number of posters have picked up a type 2 (or multiples of same) in recent years. Unless we are all extremely lucky and have rounded them up it implies that there are many more than 100 of them (perhaps if 5% are type 2 then that means a mintage of several thousand and probably over a 1000 still around).
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Australia
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I believe I have a type one as well but time will tell   Edited by stevo1962
02/19/2016 04:33 am
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Australia
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A new hopeful   |
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stevo1962:
Eye detail of the King very distinctively different in these two examples!
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Quote:
stevo1962:
Eye detail of the King very distinctively different in these two examples! The first coin graded PR63 a couple of days ago |
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Great coins guys, maybe I should start collecting Melbourne Florins. I have one - my guess is I can probably buy one like every 5 years!
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