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I was told today that the 1968 2 cent peices are rare, I don't know how rare though. So I decided to go through the massive amount of 1 and 2 cent pieces I have (Well only go through the 2c), which I mentioned in one of my other topics in Pre-Decimal. I probably have about 400-500 2c peices. I did not find even ONE 1968 2c peice, they must be pretty rare. Here are my other results:
1966 2c - 86
1967 2c - 16
1968 2c - Big Fat 0
1969 2c - 5
Unknown - 1 (196something probably a 1966 though, definatly not RARE 1968)
1971 - Not many
1972 to 1989 - A lot
Edit - The one that ended in 8 turned out to be another 1978. Edited by Spedward
04/25/2008 03:24 am
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Your "unknown one that ends in 8" - check the Queen's portrait. If it's the Machin portrait (same as 1966) then it's either 68 or 78. If it's the Maklouf portrait (with the pearl drop earring and necklace), then it's 1988.
I was a YN collecting circulating coins back in the 1980's when 1¢ and 2¢ were still around, and I only recall finding one 1968 2¢. Mind you, after I found it, I wasn't looking very hard for one anymore...
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well 0 in about 450 means its pretty rare. Checking the portrait now.... Older one! thanks sap, but they part of the number I can see looks more like it would be a 7 than a 6, I'll attempt to clean it and have a look.
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Spedward, bar 2006 Pure Silver set, the 2cent had it's lowest mintage in 1969, followed by 1968. The reason why the 1968 is more because it is missing the designer initals on the reverse. Mintages follow
1969 - 12,940,000
1968 - 16,995,000
All other years are higher with the next smallest being 1983 with 20,665,000
The fact you have 5 of the 1969 2 cent which is lowest mintage is not bad.
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Oh, thanks for that, lol, I probably don't have any 1968s becasue everyone has collected most of them, making them harder to find.
At least I have 5 1969s, which isn't too shabby.
Edit - Thanks even more! I just confirmed my other unknown is not 1968! It has the designer initials. My guess is 1966.
Edited by Spedward
04/25/2008 02:14 am
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Formerly nancyc
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Not all the 1968 2¢ are missing the designers initials. The missing "SD" coins are very hard to find, but I do have spares of 'normal' 1968.
For 1¢ coins, the years to keep a lookout for are 1968 & 69. Both reasonably low mintage years.
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oh k thanks nancy, so 1968 NORMAL soins aren't rare. Well I own 5 of the 2nd rarest 2c pieces :P (still not very).
THanks for the info on 1968 and 69 one cents too! Its given me something to do for the next 1.5 to 2 hours.
Will be back with the results of my 1c pieces. (I have a lot moer 1c than 2c)
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Formerly nancyc
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No No No, I didn't say they weren't rare. They are pretty hard to find, the missing SD ones are darn near impossible these days. Not many coppers floating around now.
I had a heap of 1¢ & 2¢ from way back when plus I got well over $40 worth from my local Bank. Later on, I was at the Bank when a customer handed in a whopping great bag full of coppers & I asked if I could have them. Yeah, no worries, come back in a few days when we've counted them.
Went back a couple days later, no go!! The Manager vetoed it and they refused to let me have them. Bah! Humbug! Spoil sports!
Try to read everything in the Australian Variety and Error Coin Forum, there's heaps of info about different varieties plus errors.
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What a mean ol bank manager. Hope he goes broke.  |
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oh k thanks, so no chance of me finding a Missing authors signature one but I might find a 68 floating around somewhere.
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Results from looking through all of my 1c coins (continued from top post):
1990 1c - 8
1980's - 241 (but no 1986 1c pieces, which asks the question, were there any made?)
1970's - 230
1966 - 44
1967 - 9
1968 - 3 (kind of rare?)
1969 - 5 (same?)
So no 1986 1c coins made? or rare? or what?
Edited by Spedward
04/25/2008 05:09 am
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No 1986 1c were issued for circulation but they did make them just for mint set only.
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k thanks for that, I wondered why I didn't find any.... Might try get a mint set in a couple years.
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Just a question though, I am referring to the RAM report released last year which you can find here: http://www.ramint.gov.au/about_ram/...malCoins.pdfAs you can see, there are no mintage figures for the 1967 and 1968 2 cents. I somewhat presumed that those coins were only struck for mint sets but judging from the millions of coins struck, I doubt it. Any reason why the mintage figure isn't published in the RAM's report? My partial coin collection http://www.omnicoin.com/collection/gxseriesMy numismatics articles and collection: http://www.gxseries.com/numis/numis_index.htmRegularly updated at least once a month. |
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Any reason why the mintage figure isn't published in the RAM's report?
I wondered about that at the time, but as I already had figures for those years I didn't pursue it. Figures for 1¢ & 2¢ missing from the RAM report are: 1¢ - 1968 - 19.93 Million 2¢ - 1967 - 73.25 Million - 1968 - 16.99 Million life is a mystery to be lived not a problem to be solved
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