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Australian coin Pillar of the Community Australia 1244 Posts	Posted 08/30/2011 06:57 am Hi, anyone have a 2011 P Counterstamp coin they would like to swap for 2011 M Counterstamp coin. Report this Post to the Staff

Penny4Me Pillar of the Community United States 745 Posts	Posted 08/30/2011 2:40 pm 2011 P Counterstamp coin vs 2011 M Counterstamp coin; it that like a 'P' mint mark vs 'D' mint mark here in USA on coins? Sorry don't know much about Australian coins, but I just found a 2001 10 cent coin here...is it worth saving? Report this Post to the Staff
CoinManTim Valued Member Australia 318 Posts	Posted 08/30/2011 5:40 pm I'm not an expert Penny4me, but as I understand it, there is a mobile mintmarking machine that is used at the big coin shows around Australia. The original post is looking to trade his Perth marked show coin for a Melbourne marked show coin. (Though, I have this voice in my head saying that the P's were actually stamped in the mint in Canberra and not on site, not sure where I read that, maybe someone else can confirm it?). Your 2001 10c piece was a super find! It is one of 110 million minted! The second highest mintage of 10c pieces ever! It might be worth 20 cents one day! Report this Post to the Staff
Penny4Me Pillar of the Community United States 745 Posts	Posted 08/30/2011 6:27 pm what is Perth Mint vs Royal Australian Mint? does Perth Mint make 'Real' Money to spend or just collector items? Report this Post to the Staff
Sap Moderator Australia 16817 Posts	Posted 08/30/2011 7:15 pm You should probably start new threads to ask your questions, Penny4me, rather than hijack someone else's thread. As you can see, Perth Mint has been added to the auto-link list here on CCF - whenever anyone types it, the forum creates a link to their web page. If you do go to their web page and click on the "About us" tab then the "History" link, you'll see that, once upon a time, the mint in Perth was a branch of The Royal Mint in London. It made Australian circulation coins, along with the other two Royal Mint branches in Melbourne and Sydney. Sydney closed in the 1920s and Melbourne in 1966, shortly after the Royal Australian Mint opened in Canberra. Perth Mint continued to strike circulation coins until it was sold to the Western Australian state government in the 1980s, who switched it over to bullion coin production. Today, only bullion and collector coins are made there, none for circulation. So from an American viewpoint, you can probably think of Perth Mint as a combination of the San Francisco and West Point mints. Although both Perth and the RAM make non-circulating legal tender Australian coins, they are in fact in competition with each other, since the coin series they make are separate. Perth makes silver Kookaburras, the RAM makes silver kangaroos, and so forth. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis Report this Post to the Staff
triggersmob Pillar of the Community Australia 9393 Posts	Posted 08/31/2011 07:16 am Quote: Hi, anyone have a 2011 P Counterstamp coin they would like to swap for 2011 M Counterstamp coin. I picked up a few spares when I went to the show and I still have one only left. PM me if you are still chasing one. Quote: (Though, I have this voice in my head saying that the P's were actually stamped in the mint in Canberra and not on site, not sure where I read that, maybe someone else can confirm it?). I can't vouch for all the coins, but I saw the counter stamping machine in action at the Perth show. Steve Edited by triggersmob 08/31/2011 07:18 am Report this Post to the Staff
Nevol Formerly nancyc Australia 5385 Posts	Posted 08/31/2011 6:27 pm Some relevant info here: http://www.australian-threepence.co...surface.html life is a mystery to be lived not a problem to be solved Report this Post to the Staff
Australian coin Pillar of the Community Australia 1244 Posts	Posted 08/31/2011 10:27 pm PM Report this Post to the Staff
triggersmob Pillar of the Community Australia 9393 Posts	Posted 09/01/2011 06:24 am PM received. Steve Report this Post to the Staff
triggersmob Pillar of the Community Australia 9393 Posts	Posted 09/01/2011 06:32 am Nancy, the article you linked to is interesting, but I don't know if the info is entirely correct. Quote from that site... Quote: The "Punch Through" 2011 P Counterstamp Dollar Seen above these coins were received by members of the public who minted their own coins on both days of the show. They were also received by members of the public buying the coins from the RAM stand on the Sunday of the show who did not want to mint their own coin. These coins are characterised by the strong witness mark or what we're calling a "punch through" on the obverse of the coin opposite the counterstamped P. My coins were all "punch through" and they were purchased early on the Saturday morning. Steve Report this Post to the Staff
Yass Pillar of the Community Australia 652 Posts	Posted 09/01/2011 8:25 pm Mintmarks, Privymarks and Counterstamps http://www.australian-threepence.co...rstamps.html Edited by Yass 09/01/2011 8:26 pm Report this Post to the Staff
Australian coin Pillar of the Community Australia 1244 Posts	Posted 09/07/2011 10:59 pm Hi Steve, Received coin Manny thanks ♥ Report this Post to the Staff
triggersmob Pillar of the Community Australia 9393 Posts	Posted 09/10/2011 10:21 am Received mine too. Thank you. Steve Report this Post to the Staff
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