Coin Hunting

Easy pickins
And..... what denomination and year is that Topenda ?

might help us all to look out for others the same ( or pre or post the event you've captured even)

Whoops , 2005 $1 coin ,here is another

All these questions hey

Is it the mob or the peace 2005 $1 ?

Whoops again, it is the plain old MOR, next time i will inform ya better

Good on ya Topenda that's the spirit.... precision. We need not tell if it's something bran new though hey I'm liking to keep a few years under my belt for cherry picking.... waiting for the grime of time to make the hunt for quality a real decent search. I believe that's fair with discovery.

Not sure how the future will see pandemic hunted coins... as time goes on I'm really noticing a change of feel to the coinage, fully believing it to be from the copious use of hand sanitizer. Not sure what effect the different chemical tracers will have on the coins over time (be sad to see multiple cases of green gunge growing on stored coins in years to come), the reality probably won't dawn on us for years yet. I'm hoping it might be nothing to concern ourselves over... just something to watch out for. I have bags of what I call "green raries" that I seperate out from any others so the green can't spread into my good coins. I just cant bring myself to let them keep circulating, as I never want to find them twice (they are just errors or nice year example coins... or they would be without the green or the grime).

Just to let everyone know.... kemjak has some 2011-2012 silver collection coins for sale on here.... for those interested :Y:

Link below

https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=608897#p608897

Been noodling heaps of 5c lately trying to find another 'alien' coin but no luck yet, but have come across a few of these 'errors ?'
Not sure what is going on with some of the 2019 IRB 5c coins but this circle appears on the neck of the Queen on some? :/
Guess it has got to do with the die? Any ideas ? Keeping all i come across ATM .
Are they common?

Don't think I've seen it before (or hav'nt noticed it perhaps)... as long as you've got at least two the same to verify it hey !

Thats the hickey error

Sandta said:

Thats the hickey error

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Love it

I recon myself that at the mint sometimes small runs of errors must happen (and not seen)in between die checks, or.... when a visual error is detected at the mint they would clean or change the die whilst scrapping X amount of coinage to clear the errors out of the system(missing a certain amount of visually hard to detect errors)
Then when the rest of coins get released into the wild through the normal channels they end up dispersed via time with few and far between..... but, sometimes still circulating within certain area's only (unless dispersed accidentally further afield unknowingly by travellers).... my thoughts there are that coins circulate via closed loops due to cartage and weight limitations as well as state border limitations .... like wherever they get taken to be rerolled for dispertion once again probably keeps them circulating in closed loops excepting for tourism (that's my take on it all)
So.. looking for an error that you have found within your closed loop area should happen easier for you (unless the particular error was walked into your particular loop from afar)if it was a small run of error that only ever came your way.

Had a bit of a hunt with a few keepers
50cent

This is the first time ever that I have recovered a 2004 pointy A 50 cent.
note the pointed A's
here's the normal blunt top A's for comparison
And here's a link to some info/discussion about it

https://www.coincommunity.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=27355

Also found a 2019 IRB Aboriginal language coin

And a 2001 Roozilla 50c

You can see the Godzilla type fins higher up on the back

Had to look twice at the pointy bit. Well spotted. erfect:

20c

2008 Wave Gap
note the wave falls short of contact with the side of the platypus head
and a 2001 Northern territory
as well as a Queenslander

5c

2019 obverse chin cud with a reverse die clash
the chin cud

the die clash
between the eye and the wrist.... and a bit there between the 3rd and 4th fingers


And a 2008 5c reverse rim cud

because it is a worn coin it is harder to see.... but it is there
it's the middle 1/3rd of the rim

this one I call the 2019 IRB Type 2
Pretty easy to find.... nearly always in higher grade (I personally think they are slowly releasing them to try and mix them in without anyone noticing.... that's the only reasoning I can see with them almost always looking pristine whenever I find them)
it's the obverse side

O.K , Cheers for the heads-up on the 2004 pointy' A'. 50 cent piece. :Y: :clap:
Not on my list, only the 2004 20 cent pointy 'A'.
Lately the 50 cent rolls are hard to get at the bank cause normally they are all gone :8

That's when it's time to rest aye.... I'm resting/slowing down now for a little while. I have some 5c cuds that need organising, and all I'm doing over time is adding to them instead lol. The real problem is that if I barreled over without them being identified they are just another bunch of 5c pieces... after all... that's all they are worth like that.

I will keep my hand in though.... a case of use it or lose it when it comes to multi recognition faculty

Can you please elaborate a bit more about the 'Type 2 IRB' 5cent coin posted .
It looks normal to me in the photo ?
I have come across 3 different 2019 IRB 5 cent coins, 1( normal high grade cause its new), 2 (high grade with bubbly background ?) and 3 (bubbly background with 'Hickey')

Are any of these coins the 'Type 2'?

Your second photo might be it.
there is a comparison of what I call 2019 5c IRB type 2 and a normal 2019 IRB 5c on post # 114(I didn't name it as such there in that post though)
Link
https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=602952#p602952

edit :- I recon there was too much pressure exerted during the use of that particular die myself.... and thats why it has that extra outer ring.... there was nowhere else for the metal to go.