Coin Hunting

[silver]

2 2005 50c Peace coins with robe cuds

first one is an early start to the cud

2nd one is bigger so the die had broken down further

2001 fat letters

must have been a long run on the die to have the letters degrade like that.... and not be noticed at the mint

anyway that's the best of it all.... all keepers for me erfect:

 

[Eldorado]

Nice couple of posts there Silver. You have given me a few coins to look out for that I didnt know about. :Y:

 

[silver]

Nice couple of posts there Silver. You have given me a few coins to look out for that I didnt know about. :Y:

Happy to help Eldorado :Y:

 

[silver]

Opened a 50c roll to find they were all new Aboriginal language coins

looked through the other rolls to find one more full roll (unopened this time)

Made me happy
Also found a nice enough 1972 5c

 

[deepblue]

Hi Silver,
Maybe you should also be checking all 5 cent pieces for small or low SD as they mixed old dies with the new dies from 2007 onwards the SD can be low or smaller also the position can alter on many of the older dies that were used from 2007.
Also IRB was missing on some coins in 2019 that were produced for mint sets.
cheers db

 

[silver]

Hi Silver,
Maybe you should also be checking all 5 cent pieces for small or low SD as they mixed old dies with the new dies from 2007 onwards the SD can be low or smaller also the position can alter on many of the older dies that were used from 2007.
Also IRB was missing on some coins in 2019 that were produced for mint sets.
cheers db

Thanks for that deepblue, I often wondered about some of the SD's on coins... I'd sit one aside and check others as they came through from the same year (cause something in the back of your mind says " I thought they were different") I must have only been seeing their friends travelling alongside... so gave up looking. So it's gunna be good to have those new parameters for hunting now. Is there an actual log of what SD in which years or are we flying blind ?

 

[silver]

Here's a few more from this last hunt worth looking for ....
(I'll try to keep any errors centre field on the closeups)
2006 10c Cud on Zero

2001 $1 Volunteers Twin Rim Cuds

2002 5c Lip Cud

2008 5c Full inner Ring

2001 5c Die Crack "neck"

2006 5c Die Crack
hard to spot

easier using a loupe under a magnifying glass..... this however is just the loupe magnified by the phone camera

One may ponder the point of error coins where one cannot see the error easily with the naked eye..... the answer to that of course is " because it's there"

Happy hunting

 

[silver]

Hunting again

kept a few
2008 5c Fat Letters
can also be found with a lot less letters fat too

and over on the Elisabeth side too

2006 5c Rim Cud

2001 5c Hand Cud

2010 $1.00 Spew Roo(I believe)

I also kept this 2019 $2:00 Repatriation coin.... it has a blemish, but I don't have one yet, so until I get a better one I'll keep it

this 2000 5c is 21 years old already... how could I not

can't pass up any 2019 JC effigies at all either.
2019 JC 20c

And last but not least
2019 JC $1:00

I'd call it a win.... especially at face value

 

[silver]

Had a look again.........

four4.......... 1972 5c

2 2016 changover 5c with chin cud

1 just there

And one a bit bigger

A 1990 5c with a long straight die crack on the Obverse
(out n down from the back of her hair)

And a brand new 47 year old 1973 5c that someone kept nice in the back of a drawer for me all that time without knowing it
(then they spent it for some reason lol)

Get a load of this

Ain't that a beaut

 

[silver]

Here's the hunt set up
Lamp
Magnifying Glass on stand
Loupe
5c Coin Rolls
A few $1 coins
Tea towel to save the table
2 by 2's

Mainly a 5c hunt, but one keeper amongst those few dollar coins.
2019 IRB - Ute

photo of 2019 IRB with runny nose cud taken through the magnifier and the loupe at the same time

New die crack (to me)
2000 5c from leftish base of neck down through E in ELIZABETH.
(not very clear sorry)

Last photo is of a few nicer 5c that I'm going to keep

edit :- a couple of slightly better photos of that year 2000 5c die crack
( because it's an older coin from in circulation I recon the die crack is a bit worn just out from the neck down to the E

 

[Gem in I]

lol runny nose cud 2019 :lol: :lol: first covid coin discovery :lol:

Seriously but silver you have taken what i thought previously would have been a tedious task into an absolute treasure hunt and the genuine or pure essence of fossicking/prospecting.

 

[silver]

lol runny nose cud 2019 :lol: :lol: first covid coin discovery :lol:

Seriously but silver you have taken what i thought previously would have been a tedious task into an absolute treasure hunt and the genuine or pure essence of fossicking/prospecting.

Covid coin lol, you've named it now Gem in I. I like to think of a coin roll like a scratchie or a kinder surprise..... never know what your going to find (could be a dud or a winner), beauty of it is that you can cash out what you don't want to keep so it's not really a loss anyway.... it's win win all the way I recon

 

[Gem in I]

Your junk pile is a lot more lucrative than all of ours although i think i am one up on scratchie players junk :lol:

 

[silver]

Used some bill money to have a looksee... I'll get most of it back to use on the bills anyway (plus I catered for $20 extra anyway)
Couple of nicer finds

2019 IRB 50 cent

2019 JC 50 cent

2019 IRB 5 cent(the different obverse one)
reverse

obverse

normal 2019 5 cent obverse for comparison

Also 3 other nice 5 cent pieces
1980 5 cent

1982 5 cent

1988 5 cent

Next post following are the errors from the same hunt

 

[silver]

Those same hunt, Errors

2006 50 cent Chin Cud

2006 5 cent Rim Cud and Die Crack

edge of Rim Cud where it rises up

the Die Crack at 6 Oclock

And a 2006 die Crack at 9 Oclock

And a 2002 Die Crack at 6 Oclock

So.... another happy hunting hour (or two lol)
and at rock bottom prices too

 

[Adrian ss]

Are these worth anything. Have picked them up in change over the past few weeks? The coin top left was found with the Vanquish 340.

 

[Jaros]

Nice collection.

 

[silver]

Doing better than me Adrian, I don't even have one of those donation dollars yet.
I know the two purple $2 coins are well sought after by everyone as they have jumped in price lately. The rest are nice to have in good condition because the longer they end up circulating the more paint they lose.
I'll find a few things to link to.

 

[silver]

PJ $2 coin hunt
[video=480,360]https://youtu.be/Wfz-EDeE6nY[/video]

PJ $2 coin values
[video=480,360]https://youtu.be/n70XsINyqJI[/video]

PJ 2013 #2 purple coronation coin value
(video from 2019)
[video=480,360]https://youtu.be/HZXPGPBQ8mM[/video]

 

[Eldorado]

Most of the coloured $2 coins are selling for a minimum $4.The purple Coronation ones are selling for $30 - $100 depending on condition.Another low mintage one worth a pretty penny is the 2012 red poppy.Very hard to find though.