Millennium Candelabra

G'day, I commend your thoroughness.
I haven't seen the article referred to in the earlier thread.
And, I can't recall any other discussion of varieties of the Millenium 50-cent, other than the incuse.

... 20 minutes later, after looking at 21 x 50-cents, including one incuse.
I found one coin with a fat "I" (2nd one),
but there was also -
some fattening of the all uprights of both "N";
a lot of fattening of both uprights of the "U"; and
a lot of fattening of all limbs of the "M".
I was using a magnifier. When I looked at the coin, unaided, the distinguishing features were plain enough ... once you knew what to look for, and where.
The tops and bottoms of the letters look the same as the others.

If I hadn't read your post, the shape of the five letters "NNIUM", would make me wonder if the coin has been flattened in that area. The coin was taken from circulation, but shows no other sign of damage or unusual wear.

So, and this is the interesting point, could this result from a damaged die ?

Peter in Darwin

Possibly if there was something of a hard substance got into the press in this exact area then it would be possible that it could have damaged the die, however the chances of something of the right substance actually hard enough to do with may not be overally good. It could be the case that you are seeing something similar to the 2007 50cent piece that has seen some effects of doubling. Around the 50, Shield and the Star at the top. Which is think was being suggested a worn die.

So your gonna send the coin to that someone...?

I went through all my Millennium 50¢ & found a few with the 'fat' letters as Peter described. I can do pictures but the batteries for the camera are flat, so I'll get 'em charged up & see what I can do.

Not making any promises mind you.....

For what it's worth, my opinion is "doubling".

G'day, I've only found one, which I haven't been able to get a pic of.
I've compared it to Nancy's excellent pics.
Mine is the same as Nancy's top pic, in relation to the letters "NNIUM". But, Nancy's also has fat "YE". My "YE" is fairly normal.

Given the recent debate on this forum about how to describe these phenomenon, which finished with the advice that young collectors could use any terms they want "with impunity", I suppose we could say that this is a "tilted-collar broadstrike through grease".

Peter

G'day, it seems there are some cub-varieties.
Mine, referred to above; not yet pictured - sorry - looks more like the one on ebay: fat NNIUM.
Whereas Nancy's, pictured above, has fat NNIUM-YE.
I wonder if there is an intermediate sub-variety; or shorter; or longer ones ?
Peter