New 2006 $1 Unc Coin Is.....................

What a neat coin! In 2003, the U.S celebrated 75 years of T.V.
Great Britain celebrated 75 years of T.V in 2001. Regular broadcasting began prior to WWII, and was mostly stopped world wide by the war. In 1946 T.V broadcating and the sale of T.V'S boomed. You had to be wealthy because a set could go for as much as $750.00!!! This era ushered in the true electronic versions of Television. Here is a couple of great links about T.V History. Mike

http://www.tvhistory.tv/
http://televisionau.siv.net.au/

Mike, thanks muchly for the TV history link

There is a furore downunder from members of the Aussie Forum who bought this coin.Main bone of contention is the very poor quality of the coins struck on blanks sourced from overseas.I have not received mine yet so I cannot comment.

My advise is to wait until the dust settles before making your purchase.

I was at the mint today and minted my own. The quality to me is ok. Even though I expect a lot from an uncirculated coin the mints view on the issue is two fold. If you want a perfect coin buy a proof (now that is understanding of them!!!!)

The second issue is that they are made the same way a circulation coins. As such they are not treated as a true collector coins should be. If they were then the mint believes the cost would increase dramatically to reflect increased manpower and wastage (due to imperfect coins). This would place the price outside of the price range of the customers they are targeting (makes sense to me!!!)

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Originally posted by crystalk64

So Bigfella just how many of those coins did the Mint let you make? Do they have restictions or can you buy up what ever you feel like minting?

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There is no restriction on the number you can mint.

However, I have to disagree with Beigfella, The quality of the coins is woeful.There appears to be rust on the inside rim on both obverse and reverse. I initialy thought it might be oil or grease from the minting process, so I tried a degreaser on one of them. It didn't come off, nor would after vigorous rubbing with a soft cloth. The coin rims are definitely pitted with what looks like rust...all 20 of them.

Yass welcome to the forum.

I haven't received mine yet so I can't comment. From what I am hearing though there needs to be a happy middle point for happiness on both sides.

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Originally posted by lim118

All I can see from the issue of such coins is the number of errors that is going to emanate from it....I am not complaining...I collect errors and varieties...[:p]

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I agree with your sentiment, but in this case its the actual blank that is at fault. The rims are pitted (or marked if you prefer). The actual minting process is ok. If you ignore the rims, the rest of the coin is quite attractive.

I suppose the one good feature will be that the coins may well be identifiable as having come from the RAM MYO press (unless of course all the blanks for future mm releases come from the same Korean provider).