2015 maccas errors

[Goldseeker]

Edition 22, Page 195, Centenary Of Australian Coinage:   Mention is made of the Mobile Press being at the various shows for 2010.   No mobile press was used at any of the shows this year and all the coins had the Capital Letters in a square, all Privy Marks except for the "C" Counterstamp at Canberra.   The descriptions need to be amended to reflect this.

I think Greg should hire you as a proof reader Goldie. :angel:
Great work Mate and I am sure that he will appreciate your efforts :good:

The only reason I am putting so much up is that I am preparing my collection for sale/disposal/downsizing and I have to have an accurate record of exactly what I have and the probable value so that I can have an idea for the placement reserve price.

I feel sure that there will be many more amendments to be done.

By the way, if anyone is checking up on my corrections to Greg and you find I have made a mistake, please advise me.

[JeffH]

Page 172 gives 2012 circulation $1 mintage as 17,975,000. RAM says "No $1 coins were produced in 2012'. one dollar Mintage figures

[Goldseeker]

Page 172 gives 2012 circulation $1 mintage as 17,975,000. RAM says "No $1 coins were produced in 2012'. one dollar Mintage figures

A bit late in responding to your above comment jeffh but you are incorrect.

The info stated on page 172 id correct as I have some of the coins in my UNC collection.
I have just completed some of my cataloguing of my collection using my coins and comparing them to what Greg has listed in his catalogue.

I am afraid that the $1 section of this current catalogue needs a great deal of amendments/corrections.

So I am wondering if Greg is reading this, would you prefer a PM list of corrections/amendments or put up here.

I prefer putting them up here.

[Pedro]

Where did you get your UNC 2012 $1s from Goldie? Did you take them out of mint sets?

I haven't found any 2012 $1s in circulation and for a suggested mintage of that size that should not be possible.

Off the top of my head I don't think the RAM Annual Reports showed any 2012's produced.

Pedro

[Goldseeker]

Where did you get your UNC 2012 $1s from Goldie? Did you take them out of mint sets?

I haven't found any 2012 $1s in circulation and for a suggested mintage of that size that should not be possible.

Off the top of my head I don't think the RAM Annual Reports showed any 2012's produced.

Pedro

Have a look at Greg Macdonald's catalogue.   Plenty of that years coins minted but not necessarily circulating currency.   All of them being commemorative issues and such and no circulating currency.

In regards to my Unc coin, yes, I buy two Mint sets every year and pull one apart for my unc albums.  

Now if there is a different coin between the Mint Set and Baby Set then two sets of baby sets are purchased and one is pulled apart.   Just as I had to do with this years issue.

[runway]

2012 MOR $1 were common I haven't seen many recently though

[Unicorn]

2012 MOR $1 were common I haven't seen many recently though

OK, I'll bite .....

I think the only time 2012 MOR were common was if you were controlling the press when they produced the coins for the 57,000 odd 2012 mint set MOR coins. Then there would have been half a ton or so of them.

Now, apart from the odd ransacked Mint Sets, there are none in circulation.

The 17.9 million Jeff refers to below in Greg's book obviously refers to the 2011 mintage, rather than the 2012 (when there were 17.9m produced).

Page 172 gives 2012 circulation $1 mintage as 17,975,000. RAM says "No $1 coins were produced in 2012'. one dollar Mintage figures

Runway, wherever you got the "common" idea from is obviously erroneous.

To quote Zebedee .......

[Oldcoinchest]

Just a few little pick ups
page 160  2003 volunteers 50 cent off metal gold coin part of 6 coin set - mintage 620- don't think they were made

and just 4 quick values that are out in my opinion
page 72 - 1911s seems cheap
page 161 -2006 gymnastics 50 cent is cheap at $8
page 163 2011 triple 000 coin cheap at $10
page 166 2014 aiatsis coloured coin cheap at $15

[ausjack]

I don't know if the error has been corrected from the 2014 edition as I don't have the 2015 sorry but in the 2014 on page 494 it has 07 first and last prefixes for the $5 in stead of the 2012

Sorry apparently this has been corrected in the 2015 edition so all good

[notcb]

Greg,

22nd Edition page 164  - bottom lines

2012 Joint Issue Gold coins - you have the silver retail price instead of the gold price.

I have only seen one set sold so far and that went for just over $12,000, (but plenty of single coin sales from Canada and the UK, as they produced more than the 375 coins that the RAMINT produced and had single coin releases).

Cheers

Peter  (notcb)

[Pedro]

Greg,

At page 435 the values for the 1976 Knight/Wheeler $5 Gothic Typeface (Centre thread) (206a) general prefixes look high.

UNC at $900 - additional zero typo? (eg in comparison to other 1976 Knight/Wheeler varieties and first & last prefix for this category)
 
aUNC at $545 - looks too high as well.

Pedro

[runway]

Greg is not in a position to reply atm

[WavyTwenty]

Greg is not in a position to reply atm

He is in some kind of yoga position I assume?

[Hercules]

I don't know whether Greg's still on this forum, but just in case he is, here are the ones that no one's mentioned yet.

On page 133, it says that 5c coins dated 1991-1994 with large SD are rare. This is not what I've found while noodling. The large SD makes up about 60% of circulating 5c coins dated 1991, 40% of those dated 1992, 10% of those dated 1993, and 2% of those dated 1994. In none of these cases would I consider the large SD to be rare, although in the latter two, it could be considered scarce.

On page 134, it accurately documents all the different 5c reverses up to 2008/2009, but remains strangely silent about what happens after that. Based on my own noodling, I've discovered that two different reverse dies were used in 2009, 2010 and 2014, with the older pre-2007 die making up 10%, 20% and 10% of the total mintages, respectively.

On page 136, it says that 5c, 10c and $2 coins have never been used for commemorative issues. This is clearly false nowadays.

On pages 136-141, the text is all in bold for no obvious reason.

On page 137, the footnote discussing the two different obverse varieties for the circulating 1999 10c seems to have become attached to the 1998 off-metal release instead. I think further explanation is needed.

On page 140, instead of leaving readers in the dark about what happened to the circulating 1985 20c, there should be a footnote like with the 1983, 1984, 1988 and 1993 releases. This would save us from having to keep bringing it up on forums such as this.

On page 152, about halfway down the list, the date for the 2012 off-metal gold 50c strike is listed as "201".

On pages 155-156, there's no information about the value of an incuse flag 50c in each grade. This is an important variety, so we shouldn't be left in the dark about this.

On page 172, for the high relief 2015 $1 coin, the mint mark is listed as a square root sign, but it isn't exactly clear to me how a square root sign looks like an Ampelmann.

On page 189, the circulation release for the Centenary of the Aged Pension $1 coin is mistakenly listed as NCLT.

On page 193, the mintage for the circulating 2014 ANZAC $1 coin is incorrect.

On page 211, the 1991 $2 coin is listed as being a circulating release, when it should be listed as NCLT.

On page 212, footnote (d) is missing. I'm also a bit confused as to what the difference is between footnotes (a) and (c).

On page 213, the mintage for the circulating 2012 poppy $2 coin is listed as "5,799.000" instead of "5,799,000". Also, the 2013 coronation coin is listed as being NCLT with a mintage of 2 million, when this is actually a circulating release with a mintage of 995,000.

On page 457, it says that $100 test notes with first or last prefixes (i.e. AN96 or CS96) are worth $95 in fine condition. This doesn't seem right, because the bank would clearly redeem them for $100.

[trout]

Has anyone heard when the next  edition will be printed ??