Double Bar 50c

jens coins · August 10, 2016, 02:04:05 PM

The Perth Mint has been doing that with the 1c and 2c coins as well

ausjack · August 10, 2016, 03:28:49 PM

If they're old stock then mintage figures will stay the same but if they're newly minted I think the figures need to be adjusted. Just my thoughts on the matter

Yes Jen there's a few coins that this has happened too and I wonder how many more.

Fulvio · August 10, 2016, 04:55:39 PM

Quote from: 'ausjack' pid='94069' dateline='1470808729'there's a few coins that this has happened too and I wonder how many more.

I think it was actually just one. Every other time something has been re-issued, the current date was used.

ausjack · August 10, 2016, 05:09:00 PM

I have heard they sometimes hold coins for a few years before letting them go into the pond, quite a few years actually but then things they do don't surprise me much any more.

Fulvio · August 10, 2016, 05:57:39 PM

Quote from: 'ausjack' pid='94079' dateline='1470814740'I have heard they sometimes hold coins for a few years before letting them go into the pond, quite a few years actually but then things they do don't surprise me much any more.

Yeah, but that's different. Like Armaguard releasing Coronation $2 last Xmas, 3 years late! :dodgy:

trout · August 10, 2016, 08:16:54 PM

I just picked this one up on eBay for $44 delivered :good:
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Australia-2015-50c-Proof-C-Mint-Mark-from-a-50-50-Set-/172299866675?_trksid=p2047675.l2557&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&nma=true&si=H7FReBYN5MXSO8QfqNZp22E%252Bgtw%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc

LooseChange · August 10, 2016, 09:12:24 PM

Will you send any of these double-bars off for grading ?

trout · August 10, 2016, 09:23:14 PM

Quote from: 'LooseChange' pid='94125' dateline='1470829344'Will you send any of these double-bars off for grading ?

I'm not sure yet Mate, I have got the shits with PCGS at the moment :angel:

Goldseeker · August 17, 2016, 10:32:30 AM

I have just checked my set and I do have a double bar. Here are the scans:

I know I am a bit late but I had to fing the set first.

trout · August 17, 2016, 10:40:38 AM

QuoteI have just checked my set and I do have a double bar. Here are the scans:

Isn't it nice to notice that you have something unusual later on in the piece :good:
I would assume that all the Proof coins in these 50.50 sets have the double bar design as there was only a 5,000 mintage and one die would have been capable of producing that many coins

trout · September 16, 2016, 10:22:09 PM

This is the Round 1966 coin that I got in that last set I won on eBay.
The double bar on this is the most defined I have personally seen so far and it is easily seen with the naked eye (even mine).
The coin itself is nothing to rave about grade wise but that double bar is a corker :yahoo:

Goldseeker · September 17, 2016, 11:30:10 AM

Nice and strong.

Was that from a mint set?

trout · September 17, 2016, 11:34:21 AM

Quote from: 'Goldseeker' pid='98143' dateline='1474077610'Nice and strong.

Was that from a mint set?

It is the round "recycled" 1966 50c that came with the Proof coin in the 2015 50.50 set.
I spotted it with my naked eye as soon as I opened up the set :good:

JeffH · September 17, 2016, 01:55:41 PM

Ah ha! I spy with my little eye something beginning with "D B". Good one.

tonymac · September 19, 2016, 07:25:51 AM

Quote from: 'Triggersmob' pid='93223' dateline='1469441091'Just in case we have any new members or maybe foreign members visit this page, that do not know what the hell we are talking about, here is a picture of the double bars.

Thanks for that I was in a quandry now I know what to look for one further question does that make them collectable ? forgive the ignorance.