Five dollar coins

trout · November 29, 2016, 11:58:26 PM

Quote from: 'brismike' pid='102087' dateline='1480425768'Do any of you guys know what the "GZ" mintmark means on the 2006 $5 NCLT Duyfken Exploration of Australia coin is supposed to be about?

Cheers Mike

QuoteThe GZ mintmark on the $5 unc coin stands for Groot Zuydtlandt "Unknown Southern Land" and was the name given to Australia when the Duyfken made the first historical charting of our great Australian coast in 1606.

This is from the May 2006 Mint issue #66 :ok:

brismike · November 30, 2016, 01:07:16 AM

Quote from: 'trout' pid='102088' dateline='1480426106'
Quote from: 'brismike' pid='102087' dateline='1480425768'Do any of you guys know what the "GZ" mintmark means on the 2006 $5 NCLT Duyfken Exploration of Australia coin is supposed to be about?

Cheers Mike

QuoteThe GZ mintmark on the $5 unc coin stands for Groot Zuydtlandt "Unknown Southern Land" and was the name given to Australia when the Duyfken made the first historical charting of our great Australian coast in 1606.

This is from the May 2006 Mint issue #66 :ok:

Thanks Trout .. I have been updating the entries on Numista for as many $5 coins as I can. It is so obvious now . . I even put Groot Zuydtenlandt in the descriptions on Numista, but did not connect the dots when it came to that mintmark lol. It actually means Great Southern Land.

Cheers Mike

trout · November 30, 2016, 01:24:04 AM

I also had absolutely NO idea what the GZ mintmark was there for either, Thank the Gods for google

brismike · January 18, 2017, 12:48:50 AM

Since I originally posted on this thread about $5 Alum bronze coins I have now managed to get almost all of them. The only 2 I don't have yet are the 2012 Melbourne Town Hall and the 2012 Distinctly Australian coins.

I pretty much picked them all up on ebay ... some of them for really bargain prices. For instance I picked up the other three (Brisbane, Sydney & Perth) 2012 Town Hall coins for around $25 each when they normally are listed for $60 and upwards, so was pleased with that.

There is one anomaly in them .. that is the 2004 $5 Eureka Stockade coin which is not Aluminium Bronze, it is Copper Nickel. It was also put out by Perth Mint rather than the RAM, but it is standard size so included it.

At this stage I have not bothered with any of the Bi-metallic ones which are smaller and lighter than these big 38.74mm ones. I would love to know why the RAM could not make up their mind what size and composition the $5 NCLT coins should be.

Cheers Mike