Collecting 50c coins

[Fulvio]

1969 x 2 (VF grade at best)

People keep 69's? Who knew? Maybe I should stop tossing them back. :dodgy:

[coxspau]

Just trying to build some nice grades of 69 and early 70s....not sure there is a wider market for them.

[Fulvio]

Just trying to build some nice grades of 69 and early 70s....not sure there is a wider market for them.

Oh I see. I doubt it though. Not many real collectors outside of the forum I reckon. They're all investors and speculators.

[trout]

Just trying to build some nice grades of 69 and early 70s....not sure there is a wider market for them.

Oh I see. I doubt it though. Not many real collectors outside of the forum I reckon. They're all investors and speculators.

I think all collectors dream about finding something exceptional and passing it on either as the coins or as a financial boost for their heirs .
That is investing in a way .
The best thing about collecting is ALL about investing in the pleasure and enjoyment of building your own personal collection, That to me is money well spent.

I have tried "Speculating" in coins but that has always been a disaster as I normally give the buggers away.
There are however a small portion of collectors that have the savvy to be able to invest and speculate in coins and do rather well for themselves, Good on them.
Everyone collects for different reasons and that is great, as long as we all keep this hobby alive and kicking, ALL is good .
:wavemulticolor:

[Fulvio]

The best thing about collecting is ALL about investing in the pleasure and enjoyment of building your own personal collection, That to me is money well spent.

Absolutely spot on. I have a range of hobbies, as do most people. Of all of them, this is the cheapest for me, because by pulling stuff out of circulation, they retain the full value of what I spent. But even in the bad old days of NCLT, it was still cheaper than say Golf, or many other "mainstream" pursuits.

Its all about the intangibles I reckon. Any financial rewards for me or my beneficiaries are purely coincidental.

[trout]

Any financial rewards for me or my beneficiaries are purely coincidental.

Or simply a "By Product" of an enjoyable/selfish pursuit of a hobby that most people cannot/would not understand.
All is good Mate, the enjoyment factor is worth all the costs ten fold :yahoo:

[interest]

There is something very special about these 1995 fifty cent pieces,
They were actually minted in 2003.
Also there were only 5,000 of these coins minted.

The main issue I have with them is that I can not find any difference between the 1995 pressing & the 2003 pressing,
so the original dies may have been reused.
Anyone add any or all information known about this release.

How many other coins have had dies used some eight years after they were first pressed.
So far I have been able to score 18 of them.

[Fulvio]

There is something very special about these 1995 fifty cent pieces,
They were actually minted in 2003.

Maybe its just me, but there is something very not right about this kind of thing. What's to stop the mind deciding one day to start producing 1930 pennies and flog them off for say twenty grand each? They certainly have the dies, and the technology. And I somehow think the lack of moral fibre as well...

[Ozcoins]

I also have a big problem with producing coins with years substantially different to when they were actually made.
Producing coins with a year in advance of the actual year I can understand for production/logistical reasons,  but producing coins with a date that had passed just should not happen.

[enworb]

Thry should use an obverse die with the correct date matched to the old reverse.

[Fulvio]

Thry should use an obverse die with the correct date matched to the old reverse.

:i_agree:

[Goldseeker]

There is something very special about these 1995 fifty cent pieces,
They were actually minted in 2003.
Also there were only 5,000 of these coins minted.

The main issue I have with them is that I can not find any difference between the 1995 pressing & the 2003 pressing,
so the original dies may have been reused.
Anyone add any or all information known about this release.

How many other coins have had dies used some eight years after they were first pressed.
So far I have been able to score 18 of them.

This was a private issue for the Royal Australian Army medical Corps.   The RAAMC was holding a conference at Healesville and they arranged for a momento to celebrate this activity.   5001 of the folders were produced and sold to those attending thwe event.   However, not all were sold and they were eventually distributed to the Australian War memorial Shop and many other outlets for sale at $9.95.   I visited the RAM and one of these folders were on the wall.   I purchased two of them.   I then showed them on a now defunct forum and they took off like a bushfire.   I managed to secure 200 of them in original boxes from the Administration Officer, School Of Army Health some time later.   I sold them for $10.00 each.   There was one chap out of Sydney who was flooding Ebay with up to 20 at a time and one bloke was buying them up at between $130-$150 each.   I was later able to contact this buyer who was buying them up for his Superannuation scheme.   When I informed him that I could lay my hands on a good supply he was only prepared to pay $9.95 each as against the hundreds he was paying for them off EBay.   I lost almost $26,000 profit (possible) but I sold all my 200 to fellow members on the then forum.   Something like 87 went to one person in SA.   I trust that this info is of some help to you.   Please be advised that the only way to identify the reminting of this coin is to keep it in the folder.   There is no difference between this coin and those issued for general circulation.

[trout]

Thry should use an obverse die with the correct date matched to the old reverse.

They normally do. :ok:

[Mister T]

Maybe its just me, but there is something very not right about this kind of thing. What's to stop the mind deciding one day to start producing 1930 pennies and flog them off for say twenty grand each? They certainly have the dies, and the technology. And I somehow think the lack of moral fibre as well...

Would they really have the dies?
I don't think mint is that stupid, but there's probably nothing stopping them.

[interest]

There is something very special about these 1995 fifty cent pieces,
They were actually minted in 2003.
Also there were only 5,000 of these coins minted.

The main issue I have with them is that I can not find any difference between the 1995 pressing & the 2003 pressing,
so the original dies may have been reused.
Anyone add any or all information known about this release.

How many other coins have had dies used some eight years after they were first pressed.
So far I have been able to score 18 of them.

This was a private issue for the Royal Australian Army medical Corps.   The RAAMC was holding a conference at Healesville and they arranged for a momento to celebrate this activity.   5001 of the folders were produced and sold to those attending thwe event.   However, not all were sold and they were eventually distributed to the Australian War memorial Shop and many other outlets for sale at $9.95.   I visited the RAM and one of these folders were on the wall.   I purchased two of them.   I then showed them on a now defunct forum and they took off like a bushfire.   I managed to secure 200 of them in original boxes from the Administration Officer, School Of Army Health some time later.   I sold them for $10.00 each.   There was one chap out of Sydney who was flooding Ebay with up to 20 at a time and one bloke was buying them up at between $130-$150 each.   I was later able to contact this buyer who was buying them up for his Superannuation scheme.   When I informed him that I could lay my hands on a good supply he was only prepared to pay $9.95 each as against the hundreds he was paying for them off EBay.   I lost almost $26,000 profit (possible) but I sold all my 200 to fellow members on the then forum.   Something like 87 went to one person in SA.   I trust that this info is of some help to you.   Please be advised that the only way to identify the reminting of this coin is to keep it in the folder.   There is no difference between this coin and those issued for general circulation.

Yes that is all true. plus the fact that no records were kept as to the amount that was returned to the Mint after the RAAMC conference at Healesville. Of all the one's I have there is no way to tell when they were minted, a pity.
 had a quick look in Maccas can't see it listed
(as copied from RAM 2003)


Whatever your thoughts are on this, it is a one off happening by the RAM to restrike coins 8 years after they were first minted.
Nobody knows for sure how many there are out there in the numismatic world it could be 500 or 5,000
So it has to be a coin of interest