2016 anniversary of decimal currency

[DarkDaiver]

:shock:  you little rule breaker Nevol :winkextra: but if the deal went sour you can just ban them :blush2:

Are there any other coins your after while your here DD??

Well thanks to Nevol I have almost everything.
I'm only missing 2$ red poplu and 2$ red circle.
also 50 years of decimal currecnty 1$ 2$ but they are not released yet ))
I thought about predicimal coins, but it seems too complicated.

[ausjack]

The 2012 red poppy wasn't for circulation and was an RSL promotion. Yes things get even more complicated with the predecimals with all the different varieties etc.

[DarkDaiver]

The 2012 red poppy wasn't for circulation and was an RSL promotion. Yes things get even more complicated with the predecimals with all the different varieties etc.

really? I thought it was circulating coin.
one RAM website it is displayed with other circulation coins

[ausjack]

No in 2012 they released the same design but with out colour for circulation.

[DarkDaiver]

No in 2012 they released the same design but with out colour for circulation.

are you sure?
https://www.ramint.gov.au/two-dollar
red polpy is in circulating coins

[JeffH]

The plain poppy coin (no colour, 5.8m mintage) was circulated and can occasionally be found in change.
The version with red colour (0.5m mintage) could only be obtained by ordering through an RSL club. It came on a special card like this AUSTRALIA 2012 $2 TWO DOLLAR UNC REMEMBRANCE DAY RED COLOURED POPPY COIN. Unfortunately it was up to the individual clubs to attach the coins to the cars and some actually glued them on!
Here is what the mint says https://www.ramint.gov.au/news-media/news/frequently-asked-questions-2-remembrance-day-poppy-coin.

[DarkDaiver]

The plain poppy coin (no colour, 5.8m mintage) was circulated and can occasionally be found in change.
The version with red colour (0.5m mintage) could only be obtained by ordering through an RSL club. It came on a special card like this AUSTRALIA 2012 $2 TWO DOLLAR UNC REMEMBRANCE DAY RED COLOURED POPPY COIN. Unfortunately it was up to the individual clubs to attach the coins to the cars and some actually glued them on!
Here is what the mint says https://www.ramint.gov.au/news-media/news/frequently-asked-questions-2-remembrance-day-poppy-coin.

that's very sad.
All this time i was hoping to receive it in change

[JeffH]

Very occasionally one will be spent and turn up in change. Chances of finding one are negligible because many people always keep any coloured $2 they receive.

[DarkDaiver]

Very occasionally one will be spent and turn up in change. Chances of finding one are negligible because many people always keep any coloured $2 they receive.

Hahaha who would spent such a coin? especially if he bought it...

[ausjack]

You'd be surprised DD, people have hard times sometimes so spend their collection and others get stolen and the spent. I have quite a few coins now that I have found in circulation that are meant to be there, it's mainly the $1 carded one's that you'll find but there are one's from mint sets as well.

[JeffH]

I have quite a few coins, only ever available in mint sets (including some proofs) that I have 'noodled'. That includes a few 1966 silver 50¢.
Some possibilities'
•The buyer is not a serious collector and ends up using them as (s)he has no real interest.
•A collector stops collecting and decides that easiest way to disperse the collection is to use them. Could be a mistake to do that.
•A collector dies and family has no interest and just spends them.
•They are stolen and thief doesn't care what collector value they have, just wants to use them quick.
A friend of mine had four hundred 1966 round 50¢ stolen from his house (along with a cabinet full of fine liquor). A few days later a similar amount were cashed in at a bank in a nearby town. Nothing can be proven in a case like this no matter how strong the suspicion.
If cashed in coins are same size, shape and general appearance as normal circulation coins the average bank teller will not notice they are something out of the ordinary and use them to make up change bags to issue later.

[ausjack]

If cashed in coins are same size, shape and general appearance as normal circulation coins the average bank teller will not notice they are something out of the ordinary and use them to make up change bags to issue later.

That's it, I'm gonna engrave all my coins and put property of AJ on them hopefully having my name should make them more valuable :mocking:

[JeffH]

Or not! :diablo:

[ausjack]

It would have to add value wouldn't it, well one would like to think so anyway :angel:

[JeffH]

Well, imagine you are doing some noodling in several years time and come across a coin with "JAYSON" engraved on it.
What would that be worth? Face value only as it is obviously a reject from the AJ mint (sub-branch of the trout mint), but what will the emotional value be?
:yahoo: PRICELESS! :swoon: