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1987 5-Cent? Help

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Ok...now this one is the BEST FIND I have EVER COME ACROSS!!!!

Me thinks I need some help from them folks that call themselves the Aussies... (grabs a horn and blows a few 'cavlary notes').

HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ok...can't get a shot of it right now, but will soon.

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1987 silver-colored coin. About the size of a US penny. Has a portrait of Elizabeth II on the obverse and a pitcure of what looks like a platypus (sp?) on the reverse. There is also a "5" going through part of the plat's bill....btw, cute little creature.
This coin is in what I would consider to be a VERY HIGH GRADE....especially for a coin that's made this far of a journey (found in Cartersville, Georgia, USA).

CAN SOMEONE HELP?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

Also...we've been finding ALOT of 1970-S nickels in circulation recently...any clue as to why? (Other than the obvious being that someone has raided a collection.)

This was originally posted in the Interesting Finds section, but decided to move it over here since it DOES pertain to both areas...please, any help would be appreciated!
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 Posted 06/25/2006  01:48 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add lim118 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply

1987-5-Cent?-Help

This one

If it is, it is not the platypus but an echidna..

The echidnas is the animal featured in our 5 cent pieces. Mintage for this coin in 1987 was 73,500,000.
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 Posted 06/25/2006  06:16 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add gettinIT2getheragain to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
THANKS LIM!!! That's the one! (And let me guess, that must be a proof strike in your pic?)
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 Posted 06/25/2006  06:44 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add lim118 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Yes, that is a proof one from a 1966 set (our first decimal coins)...
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 Posted 06/25/2006  07:03 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add lim118 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Here is a better looking one in silver from the 2006 Fine Silver Proof Set.

1987-5-Cent?-Help
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I am just guessing here, but I think it would be safe to assume that the intials "SD" under the cute little are the designer's intials...am I correct?

Also, this coins has some GREAT LUSTER for a 10-year old coin...is there a process to determine the grade that you can post?
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Yes the SD is the designers initials...Stuart Devlin.

The coin is proof so I would guess that Lim would no have an impaired proof so grade is FDC.
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