Wifey comes home from shopping today and hands me a $2 coin she found on the floor at the shops.
I take a look and almost fell off my chair.
This what it looks like:
(https://www.australian-coins.net/gallery/albums/userpics/10120/134/2018-10-05_14-37-21_0036.jpg)
(https://www.australian-coins.net/gallery/albums/userpics/10120/134/2018-10-05_14-36-26_0035.jpg)
It is not the first planchet fault I have found but it is the first $2 one that I now have.
That's a lovely lamination Goldie! :good:
It's nice to find something that's new to your collection.
Well done wifey! :yahoo:
Your wife has done very well Goldie :ok:
Pedro
Goldie, your wife has done very well.
I think you should take her on a cruise to thank her. :)
Looks like he forgot to duck when his boomerang came back..LOL...
Quote from: 'Goldseeker' pid='116930' dateline='1538714901'it is the first $2 one that I now have.
Well, given the way lamination flaws occur, they could be on any coin. That said, I don't have any either.
Maybe the smaller size of the planchet means there's a smaller target to hit, so a greater proportion of the flaws happen to be in the waste metal compared to $1 coins?
Come to think of it, I don't think I have any 5¢ either. Plenty of 20¢ and 50¢ though.
A few years ago I started to do images of all my error coins & document them in a way that I could easily find them, but I only got as far as 2001
when the task simply became too much for me to continue.
I can now advise that I have 28 x $2 coins with lams, occurring on the following years.
1988 x 13; 7 Obv, 6 Rev
1989 x 4; 1 Obv, 3 rev
1990 x 1; Obv
1994 x 4; 2 Obv, 2 Rev
1996 x 1; Obv
1997 x 1; Obv
1999 x 3; Rev
2001 x 1; Rev
There is 1 more with a Rev Lam, but I haven't recorded the year.
That's a good list there Nevol.
I shall have to pull my finger out and do the same.
Quote from: 'Nevol' pid='116953' dateline='1538948325'I can now advise that I have 28 x $2 coins with lams, occurring on the following years.
Aww, c'mon.... you know as well as I do that flaws aren't errors.
Repeatability is the key.
Its like I post a picture of my newly-crunched car, and you go searching for another Getz with rear bumper damage to match it. Not gonna happen. And even if you crash one to replicate it, it won't be the same anyway.
Flaws are unique one-offs. Nothing like errors which may number in the millions and can reasonably be searched for.