1967/68 PROOF SETS

Mister T · January 05, 2019, 09:57:09 AM

He founded the Australasian Coin and Banknote Magazine.

Basil · January 06, 2019, 08:50:00 AM

Quote from: 'notcb' pid='118116' dateline='1546550508'The old Australian Coin Review had a number of articles by J M Henderson (RAM controller) about the development of the proof coins and their eventual plastic casing back around mid 1967 through mid 1969 from memory - maybe one of the older members of the forum still has access to old ACR volumes - I sold mine off years ago.

Cheers

Peter (notcb)

I still have all my copies of 'Australian Coin World',1966-68, and Henderson was often quoted in articles and i remember the 1966 Proof Coins had mentions,i'll get them out this week and try and find them.

drakesterling · January 06, 2019, 10:02:58 AM

Quote from: 'Basil' pid='118160' dateline='1546726800'
Quote from: 'notcb' pid='118116' dateline='1546550508'The old Australian Coin Review had a number of articles by J M Henderson (RAM controller) about the development of the proof coins and their eventual plastic casing back around mid 1967 through mid 1969 from memory - maybe one of the older members of the forum still has access to old ACR volumes - I sold mine off years ago.

Cheers

Peter (notcb)

I still have all my copies of 'Australian Coin World',1966-68, and Henderson was often quoted in articles and i remember the 1966 Proof Coins had mentions,i'll get them out this week and try and find them.

I have some of the older ones (late 1960s onward). If you remember the issue, I could flip through them?

Eric

serenitystan · January 06, 2019, 04:19:54 PM

RAM decimal proof sets in my Renniks 24th edition states 1966 proof sets . Mintage 18.110. As far as i know there are 2 types of 1966 proof sets. 1966 Dark blue case with Royal Australian Mint on top of case. Light blue case with Commonwealth of Australia on top of the case. Which came first, RAM or COMM?. Is one scarcer than the other??..

notcb · January 07, 2019, 07:18:01 AM

Amazing what Dr Google can turn up. :grin:

I found reference to the plastic cased 1966 Proof sets, of which there were, as I remembered, 12 such items.

https://www.wynyardcoins.com.au/shop/australian-decimal-coins/royal-australian-mint/1966-1983/1966-experiment-proof-set/

Cheers

Peter (notcb)

Basil · January 07, 2019, 09:17:07 AM

Yeah,good find,i vaguely remember something about the plastic case as i do reading in depth articles about the 66 Proof
Sets,the cases they were in and other drama's the RAM had in their production.
Found a few generic waffles in Coin World that i will post while i have them out but i have other Books/Magazines from the 1960's stored at my Sisters place so if i can find the relevant ones i will post.

Mister T · January 11, 2019, 04:41:09 PM

Page 198 - I didn't realise Australian Coin World was such a beefy publication.

Basil · January 11, 2019, 08:40:55 PM

Quote from: 'Mister T' pid='118206' dateline='1547187069'Page 198 - I didn't realise Australian Coin World was such a beefy publication.

Yeah,it was cashing in on the high interest in Coin Collecting during the pre-dec. feeding frenzy,they went to a smaller size(and smaller print) late 1967 but folded late 1968.
Their main problem was a focus on overseas Coins at a time the majority of buyers were only interested in Oz. coins.
I remember a Dealer in one of the Sydney Arcades(Strand?) telling me the Dealers had who advertised in the Mag. tried to convince them to concentrate more on Oz. coins but apparently they had contracts in place with their overseas contributors,USA,UK,India ,HK etc.
I had the HSC in 1968 so when the last issue came out that was it for me as far as Coins were concerned for several years.