First Coin of the Year

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Chucker asked:

"What year is your 'first coin' Goldy"?


My First Mint Coin was 2010 Centenary Of Australian Coinage.

It hangs in the lounge room in pride and place for all to see.

I just had a look at it and the coin has a wee bit of discolouration towards the top one third of the coin on the reverse.   Might have to take a closer look as it is still in the original slide in mount that one gets with each stamping of a MYO coin.

I have often been asked would I go and try and be the first again.   Well, unless the RAM will allow me to pitch a tent immediately adjacent to the visitor entrance door, allow me to use their toilets and won't mind the wofting of burnt meats from the BBQ, TV and portable generator etc etc etc, I don;'t think.

In fact the very first time I was first to mint a MYO was on 01 Jan 2005 End Of WW11, 60th Anniversary when I pressed the coin in front of the CEO and others and as I pressed the 13th coin, the press jammed.   When the press was opened up, big George did the dismantling of the press, a coin failed to eject and was caught between another coin and the coin ended up as a perfect blockage but looked like the aussie rules football.   This happened in front of the CEO and others.   I was allowed to hold the coin but had to give it back as the coin did not voluntarily eject from the press.   It was a time when the VG presses were in the small aisle , adjacent to the old film theatre in the old front building.

I did get my picture in the newspapers as a result but the cut out I did have has disappeared.   Somewhere' still around but can't find it right now.

complete with moire pattern (sorry)