I got a tonne of late 70's early 80's mint rolls yesterday and decided i would open a couple for myself before selling the rest. I like 2c coins so i thought id start there. One of the rolls was a double head 1976. When i opened the roll there was only 10x 1976 but 20x 1981 coins. The roll was tight and definitely not tampered with.
That seems very odd to me! If it was a one or two year difference between dates it would be plausible but 5?
Also is it possible to fish a 1981 no SD out of a mint roll? Anyone had any experience doing so?
Oh and i got a nice little clipped planchet on a 1981 2c
Perhaps the original owner worked in a bank- skilled in the art of rolling.?
It was a Royal Australian Mint roll paper though
Sounds very srange to me. ...
I would not expect coins to be around at the mint for that long.
Stranger things have happened..wrong coins in mint set..now come on
They are only ever one year out, arent they?
i bought a '1964' halfpenny roll last year
it also included 10 x 1961 - brilliant uncs (spotted sadly)
and a 1932 halfpenny !!!
now, if it had of been a 1923 I would have been much happier
ps - what is a 'double head 1976'
is that - 1976 head - each end?
Its really got me stumped. The roll was tight before i opened it.
Quote from: 'enworb' pid='7055' dateline='1358988692'When i opened the roll there was only 10x 1976 but 20x 1981 coins. The roll was tight and definitely not tampered with.
If you said that there were 1981 coins on the outside I think it could make more sense. But this means, if it came from the RAM, that in 1981 they found some (I assume) Unc 1976 coins and they added them to the rolling process.
This appears to be very unusual and I'm not sure how it could have happened.
Wavy20
I opened about about 30 other rolls from that lot and they were all fine. Weird!
Sometimes they use surplus coins from previous years in rolls - I once had a 1966 roll with uncirculated 1944-S shillings in it (albeit a bank roll).
i bought a 1964 halfpenny roll
it had 10 x 1961 halfpennies
and one daggy 1932 halfpenny
pity it wan't a 1923! [/align]