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Question About 2008 Australian 20 Cents - Wave Gap

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 Posted 11/14/2019  03:31 am Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add Charl to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
Hey everyone,

Does the 2008 20 cents - wave gap considered an 'Error' or 'Variety'?

Also is there an estimation on mintage?

Tried to search online however could not find much information

Thanks


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 Posted 11/14/2019  5:55 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Nevol to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Re variety or error question, not sure whether it has ever been decided whether these are due to a deliberate change to the dies, or caused by die fill, or a worn die.

They do occur in several years and I have always thought that the cause was either die fill or a worn die, but that's just my opinion.

I have images for these years - 1966, 1967, 1981, 1982, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2005, 2008. There may be other years.

Mintage figures is anyone's guess, and would only really be relevant if the change was due to a deliberate change of the die.

A bit more info may be in this lot.
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 Posted 11/15/2019  5:05 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Mr T to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
I say variety - apparently the Wedding Set coins of that year all have the gap and I don't think that is due to die fill. Probably a Wedding Set die ended up in the circulation die rotation somehow.

In my looking at change the gap coin is about 0.8% to 0.9% of the mintage so you can figure out a rough mintage from that.
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 Posted 11/21/2019  01:49 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add NewCollwctor to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
I have 4 2008 wave gaps, and been wondering the same thing. Error or variety 🤷 #8205;#9794;#65039;
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 Posted 11/29/2019  11:37 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Mr T to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Pretty sure it's a variety - I looked at a lot of 20c pieces for 2009 to 2014 or so to see if there were any similar coins but I didn't see any.
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 Posted 05/22/2020  02:49 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add karloning to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
I go with variety. I have some very clean 2008's (13 all together) and there is a distinct gap
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