Help needed with 5 cent varieties

[5 rubles]

I am going through hundreds if not thousands of 5 cent circulated coins that have been thrown into a box over many years. there are coins from 1966 to 2013. I am a  novice's apprentice what comes to 5 cent coins, I know very little about mintmarks, die varieties and anything that is interesting in them.

Any help with varieties is much appreciated.

[Australian coin]

1972 5c
and anything that might be a error

[emu666]

http://www.thesandpit.net/index.php?option=five_cent_die_types

[5 rubles]

Thanks for help, now starts the checking of 1250 coins....

[Goldseeker]

I think that is the first time that I have seen differences shown so well.

Congrats to emu666 for the link.

Now do you have any other links to varieties of other denominations that show the differences as clearly as those already linked, I would like to see.

[Mister T]

http://www.thesandpit.net/index.php?option=five_cent_die_types

What about the normal SD and small SD?

[emu666]

http://www.thesandpit.net/index.php?option=five_cent_die_types

What about the normal SD and small SD?

I'm sure I've got them all. What year (s) are you referring to?

[Mister T]

There's some footnotes in McDonald's for 1997, 1998, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2006.
From the pictures I've seen they're pretty similar.

[emu666]

There aren't any varieties for those years; i.e. just one obverse and one reverse for each of those years.

[runway]

Nice research emu666 you must have great eyes to even see the details of a 5c piece well done

[Mister T]

There aren't any varieties for those years; i.e. just one obverse and one reverse for each of those years.

Ah good - I'd never had a good look but from the pictures the difference almost looks like it's due to strike.
What are the six reverse dies as per http://www.thesandpit.net/5c_survey/2014_5c_survey.html? I see D, E and F, and I guess A is high echidna and B is short spine.

[emu666]

A is original low echidna 1966-1972
B short spine 1966 Canberra
C high echidna 1972-1988
D small SD (low echidna similar to A) 1984-
E large SD 1991-1994
F tiny SD or huge echidna 2007-

obverse
1a 1966-1984 Canberra, and Royal Mint
1b 1981 (different hair) Winnipeg
2 1985-1998
3a (small head, serif IRB) 1999, 2001 small head, 2002-2015
3b (large head, non-serif IRB) 2000, 2001 large head

milling is slightly different on all three 1981 issues

[Mister T]

Ah okay.
Should 1999 be type 3b?

[emu666]

Ah okay.
Should 1999 be type 3b?

No; it's the same size as 2001 small head and 2002 onwards

[Mister T]

So it looks like both low and high echidna coins exist from 2007 to 2016 (though not all in circulation) - anyone know if both varieties exist in mint sets for 2017?
I haven't seen any in change yet and I've only got one mint set and it's a high echidna.