2006 Commonwealth games 50c sports

eirrab · September 22, 2014, 08:06:46 AM

Hi
While reviewing my collection and selling my surpluses, I found that the 2006 Gymnastics 50c seems to be fetching very high prices on ebay compared with others in the series. While I was happy to get $134 for the last one that I offered - this seems way out of sync with the others that are getting around $15. Can anyone enlighten me as to what is behind this? The mintage seems similar to the others.

trout · September 22, 2014, 08:08:51 AM

Quote from: 'eirrab' pid='59821' dateline='1411339006'Hi
While reviewing my collection and selling my surpluses, I found that the 2006 Gymnastics 50c seems to be fetching very high prices on ebay compared with others in the series. While I was happy to get $134 for the last one that I offered - this seems way out of sync with the others that are getting around $15. Can anyone enlighten me as to what is behind this? The mintage seems similar to the others.

Maybe there was more than one bidder that just wanted that coin and weren't prepared to take NO for the answer :ok:

Nevol · September 22, 2014, 12:50:40 PM

I'm not even aware of how many of each one was minted, so I can't help. :dontknow:

trout · September 22, 2014, 01:05:21 PM

In 2006 16 different types of these were minted to celebrate the Melbourne Commonwealth Games.
Average Mintage is 22,000 the Aquatics coin had a mintage of over 31,000

Nevol · September 22, 2014, 02:15:12 PM

OK, just checked and according to my 6th Edition of Krause, the mintage for the Gymnastics coin is 3000 which is the lowest for the ones I can find.

Next lowest is Hockey, with 4082, then Basketball with 5002. The rest are all over 22000, but there's no mintage figures at all for Squash and Boxing, and even with them I can only find info on 15 coins.

I might have to try to find my Set so I can check up on the 16th coin, or maybe it's not a 'Sport Specific' coin.

The missing sport was Badminton, so no mintage for that either.
   Sport-Mintage
   Aquatics-31702
   Athletics-22475
   Badminton-?
   Basketball-5002
   Boxing-?
   Cycling-22861
   Gymnastics-3000
   Hockey-4082
   Lawn Bowls-22,602
   Netball-22432
   Rugby 7's-24427
   Shooting-21070
   Squash-?
   Table Tennis-22070
   Triathlon-22302
   Weightlifting-22332

eirrab · September 22, 2014, 06:53:32 PM

Thanks, Nevol - it looks like gymastics was the lowest mintage at 3000. Looks like Basketball and hockey were also very low mintage for those who want a complete 50c set
Trout, I have tried it with 3 coins in the last week or so and all were over $100 or close to it.
Maybe I can put a whole set on and see what happens - 16 sports plus the student design

JeffH · September 22, 2014, 07:18:19 PM

Whoops! Got confused about what games we were talking about. Please ignore anything I may have said.

runway · September 23, 2014, 12:09:52 AM

Interesting stuff.
Why were mintages for these different I wonder?

trout · September 23, 2014, 03:48:03 AM

So which source is correct Krause or McDonalds ?
The mintage figures shown on Page 143 21st edition of Macca's is vastly different than as posted by Nevol.

robbiegal · September 23, 2014, 07:42:29 PM

just had a look at that
so does that mean that really those individual mintages are 15,500 less than the total mintage for the carded ones? as 15,500 sets were produced

Nevol · September 23, 2014, 08:33:02 PM

RG, From what I've been able to find out so far, that looks like it might be the case, but maybe I'm missing something.

runway · September 24, 2014, 11:06:04 PM

Quote from: 'robbiegal' pid='59930' dateline='1411467149'just had a look at that
so does that mean that really those individual mintages are 15,500 less than the total mintage for the carded ones? as 15,500 sets were produced

According to Maccas 2014 guide page 143 mintages listed include the 15500 complete folder set.
Gymnastics mintage figure there is 25574 so that equates to 10074 separate carded Gymnastics 50c cards.
I have no idea if these figures are correct,what does Renniks guide have to say?

trout · September 25, 2014, 07:31:02 AM

QuoteAccording to Maccas 2014 guide page 143 mintages listed include the 15500 complete folder set.
Gymnastics mintage figure there is 25574 so that equates to 10074 separate carded Gymnastics 50c cards.
I have no idea if these figures are correct,what does Renniks guide have to say?

I have a copy of Rennics that gives a mintage of 25,574 for the gymnastics coin.
Strangely the mintage for the Hocky coin is listed at only 6,261

interest · September 27, 2014, 07:15:48 PM

Quote from: 'eirrab' pid='59862' dateline='1411377812'Thanks, Nevol - it looks like gymastics was the lowest mintage at 3000. Looks like Basketball and hockey were also very low mintage for those who want a complete 50c set
Trout, I have tried it with 3 coins in the last week or so and all were over $100 or close to it.
Maybe I can put a whole set on and see what happens - 16 sports plus the student design

Betcha happy with that.

Nevol · September 28, 2014, 11:01:45 AM

I've just finished trawling through all the RAM Reports that contain mintages for the 2006 Comm Games 50c pieces and I hope you can make sense out of what I've come up with.

This is taken from the only 2 reports that I can find this data in.

This would indicate to me that the 4 sports that have figures much less than the rest are most likely incorrect figures in the RAM Reports as the differences in each case between Maccas and the RAM data just happen to be exactly 15500, which are quantities for the 16 coin sets (18 coin actually, but only 16 Sport ones).

It also appears that Macca has access to more accurate data than what is in the RAM Reports, or have I missed some data for those 4 sports somewhere?

Now, I don't claim to be any sort of a whiz with figures but this following data is also taken from the same 2 sources and I'm assuming these 18 coin starter sets are in fact the sets we are all familiar with.

The 2 figures for Quantity do add up to 15500. Great! What the heck are these so called 'pieces' that total 62000? If it's supposed to be the total number of coins used to compile those 15500 sets, they're only 186000 off the mark! Is there anyone who understands this that can explain this anomaly to me?