2012 Coins in Circulation

[Nevol]

I've found 5 x $2 Poppy coins, one is pretty bad, the others are so-so.  Here they are:

$2 2012 Poppy c1

 
$2 2012 Poppy c2


$2 2012 Poppy c3


$2 2012 Poppy c4


$2 2012 Poppy c5

[Australian coin]

Woo! I freaking picked up the poppy $2 tonight in change :yahoo:

[Triggersmob]

Finally found my first $2 Poppy.

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[Goldseeker]

If anyone can secure more than their requirement of these coins, then Peter Strich in Melbourne is after them for collectors in Tasmania.

[Triggersmob]

Found three more poppy coins today.:yahoo:

[Ozcoins]

I have still only found one poppy from circulation.

[keldaw]

I have still only found one poppy from circulation.

   me too oz , but i wont panic yet , they will come , and if not , just use a coloured one , i think the colour will come off very easy ..

     ,, kel ,,

[enworb]

Im pretty sure the reverse die of the coloured version is actually different to the circulation die. The flower in the centre is not struck on the coloured version as far as i can tell

[Nevol]

It certainly is different.  The Poppy is just a vague shape, and if not for the colouring, it would be all but invisible amongst the pattern.

I don't have either an RSL one or a C Mint Mark one for comparison, so not sure if they are different to either of the below.

$2 2012 Poppy - Circulation Coin Top -  PNC Coin Bottom.
 

$2 2012 Poppy PNC Close Up of Poppy only


From what I can see on the C MM one on the RAM site, the poppy is quite smooth, but it's possibly just an artists impression, not a true representation of the coin.

[markn]

I think you'll find there's no poppy on the coloured coin because it's impossible to align the coin for printing in a production environment.  Pad printed dollars are made by hand in the proof room at the RAM, and thus aligned by hand.  That's possible when there's a few thousand to make.  But half a million?  No, not possible.  Hence the poppies on the coloured coins can have no particular alignment and the RAM didn't pre-strike a poppy on the coin.

[keldaw]

i got a phone call yesterday  they had my 2 more poppy $ 2.00 coins ready to be picked up , so i went in to town this morning to get them and they had the wrong ones , they had the c mm with the 3 fold cover but i wanted the ones like the first day covers with the stamp also  , at $ 19.95 . so now they are going to try and get me 2 of them ..  bad mistake by aust post ,,.     for me around trip of 75 kms and about $ 10.00 in fuel .. ..   ,, kel ,,

[Australian coin]

I have got the complete set of all poppy coins now.

All the coloured ones are over the writing, no poppy design underneath the colour; this is the same for the RSL coin and the Canberra mintmark and PNC c mintmark

The circulation type is the only coin design with a poppy picture incorporated into the base design of the coin.

Also if anyone can’t get the circulation poppy $2 coin, I have some spare from change today.

[Triggersmob]

Found my first 2012 Aboriginal Elder $2 coin today.
Still don't have a 2011 yet though.

[Mister T]

I got another Remembrance Day $2 coin the other day, thankfully less bag-marked than the other pair.
Plain $2 coins seem to be more common-place now.

[ausjack]

Anyone found a 2012 $1 :scratch_one-s_head: