Incused 50 cents

trout · August 15, 2013, 06:49:15 AM

I don't consider the incused coin to be an error, It is really a variety coin.
it is not a mistake in the minting process but a deliberate design change.
However I am yet to get any information as to why the design was changed on (apparently) just one die.
Has anyone got a definitive answer as to why this design change happened and why?

ausjack · August 15, 2013, 07:15:00 AM

it's all a bit suss if ya ask me as it's happened many a time now right back to the pre decimals so..no QC ever at the mint and gettin worse like errors in mint sets but we won't go there just yet :winkextra: Sorry I can't help mate

eccentric · August 15, 2013, 07:49:31 AM

When these first appeared I contacted the mint to find out how the change came about. Apparently the RAM intended to use the incuse die for the mint sets and the normal die for the circulation coins. In the end, it was decided to shelve that idea and the single die was used for a small number of circulation coins - around 200,000. So, in the end, quite a scarce coin.

ausjack · August 15, 2013, 07:58:14 AM

wow yes very low mintage indeed..that's less than the mule isn't it??

stevo1962 · August 15, 2013, 09:00:53 AM

Quote from: 'ausjack' pid='24978' dateline='1376519294'wow yes very low mintage indeed..that's less than the mule isn't it??

Not quite as rare as the $1 Mule AJ as there are only supposed to be between 3000-6000 mules but an UNC incused 50 cent is a very difficult coin to find as I have found out recently.I hope to have one on the way so will post pictures when it arrives

ausjack · August 15, 2013, 09:07:57 AM

sweet, can't wait. I found my second one yesterday but they would both be lucky to make F but still good to have

That's a pretty low figure for the mules so no wonder it's been a mission..10 bloody years and not even a little sign of one yet, but I live in hope :good:

Goldseeker · August 15, 2013, 10:01:18 AM

I agree with your comments ausjack but how many $1 coins have you searched in the ten years you have been looking for mules?

jozk123 · August 15, 2013, 10:29:49 AM

Quote from: 'ausjack' pid='24987' dateline='1376523477'sweet, can't wait. I found my second one yesterday but they would both be lucky to make F but still good to have That's a pretty low figure for the mules so no wonder it's been a mission..10 bloody years and not even a little sign of one yet, but I live in hope :good:

AJ it took me over 8 years to find one but it was casual noodling $60-$100 a week nothing like goldies effort
After years of trying I gave in and bought one,then no more than 2 months later I found one.and have not found another yet,so I have 2 in total,so don't give up.
As GS was trying to say its percentages the more you go thru you will increase your chance if finding one but there is no guarantee
Good luck Happy noodling

ausjack · August 15, 2013, 10:38:27 AM

not as many as I would have liked GS, maybe about 10,000 but as I have a lot of the other rarer one's now I might change my change list as I've been thinking about stopping the five cent as they're hurting my eyes a bit and the errors don't stand out like on the bigger coins with out using a lookin glass and computer screens hurt the eyes as well.

Sorry Jozk I type too slow mate, cool so I'll keep pluggin away and one day might find one but I can't see me buying one. Yeah I'll have to get more dollar coins and less of the others until something new raises an eyebrow.

Fulvio · August 15, 2013, 11:36:53 AM

Quote from: 'ausjack' pid='25001' dateline='1376528907'...hurt the eyes as well.

I've got some 10oz silver coins you could noodle... they should be big enough for ya.

ausjack · August 15, 2013, 11:54:09 AM

now ya talking

trout · August 15, 2013, 12:03:25 PM

Quote from: 'Fulvio' pid='25011' dateline='1376532413'
Quote from: 'ausjack' pid='25001' dateline='1376528907'...hurt the eyes as well.

I've got some 10oz silver coins you could noodle... they should be big enough for ya.

Nah, they would be no good Mate.
They would do the poor buggers back in :diablo::laugh2::whistle2:

ausjack · August 15, 2013, 02:13:22 PM

I'll get a forklift :mocking: that's a bloody big coin isn't it..roughly 10 times the size of a crown

Fulvio · August 15, 2013, 06:26:04 PM

Quote from: 'ausjack' pid='25028' dateline='1376541802'I'll get a forklift

I've been thinking I need a forklift myself.. but then I thought I don't want to make it too easy on the burglars.. let the buggers break their backs I say!

Goldseeker · August 15, 2013, 08:04:38 PM

Quote from: 'ausjack' pid='25001' dateline='1376528907'not as many as I would have liked GS, maybe about 10,000 but as I have a lot of the other rarer one's now I might change my change list as I've been thinking about stopping the five cent as they're hurting my eyes a bit and the errors don't stand out like on the bigger coins with out using a lookin glass and computer screens hurt the eyes as well.

Sorry Jozk I type too slow mate, cool so I'll keep pluggin away and one day might find one but I can't see me buying one. Yeah I'll have to get more dollar coins and less of the others until something new raises an eyebrow.

One to to look at more coins is to tell your friends and neighbours what you are looking for and get to look as well.

If yopu like clubbing, go to a club, take out $50 of coins from the pokies, have a look and return them to the coin counter and keep going. One does not have to plat the machines to look at coins.

other than that, just keep looking.

Although I have stopped looking for Mules for a time, I will get back into the $1 coins soon. 50c and 20c pieces I am searching at the present.