The Wedding Set picture Thread 2002-2009

[trout]

It has taken me quite some time and effort to finally get these coins recognised and attributed as Specimen strikes.
NGC has come up with the goods so here they are.
I apologise beforehand about the image quality These particular coins are incredibly hard to image due to the super reflective surfaces ,So bear with me :ok:

Here are the 2009 coins

2009 $2  SP69


2009 $1  SP68


2009 50c  SP69


2009 20c  SP68


2009 10c  SP69


2009 5c  SP70

[humpybong]

WOW!...bloody beautiful mate.

[runway]

Nice you done a good job with photos trout

[trout]

Thanks Barry

Here are the 2008 coins

2008 $2 SP69


2008 $1 SP69


2008 50c SP69


2008 20c SP69


2008 10c SP70


2008 5c SP69

[duggee27]

i am impressed and your effort has been duly rewarded :good:

and great pics too

[trout]

The Pic's could be better But they are the best I can do at the moment.
I have to balance between getting some glare on the plastic and seeing the detail on the coins.
These are absolute Buggers to image.
Anyway here are the 2007 coins.
I won't be able to take any more images until my other submission comes back from NGC.
Feel free to add your own Wedding set images here :ok:

2007 $2 SP69


2007 $1 SP69


2007 50c SP69


2007 20c SP70


2007 10c SP69


2007 5c SP68

[tania]

WOW Trout these are beautiful.

[JeffH]

Lovely. Just does show what the RAM can do when they really try.

[Nevol]

Wow!! They're real eye poppers. :drooling:
 Great outcome for all your hard work.  :good:

Now I have to resist the urge to start collecting them.

[trout]

Lovely. Just does show what the RAM can do when they really try.

:agreed:
This years "In come the Dollars/Cents" Set Coins are of a similar quality/type But have  granulated fields are another example that the artisans at RAM are World Class. :good:

[humpybong]

Drooooool........WOW!

[trout]

I had a couple of these Wedding set coins "Spare" and recently I sent a coin to few different Members here that had never seen one "In Hand".
I wish I was a fly on the wall when they removed the coin from the bubble pack to see their reaction when they first set eyes on one of these coins
It was another Member here "AJ" that first introduced me to these coins and without his "Heads Up' I would still be blissfully unaware that Decimal coins of this quality existed :good:

If anyone here hasn't seen these coins "In Hand" then I strongly suggest that the next time you are in a coin shop that you ask to have a look at one of these Wedding Sets if they have one available, Most dealers have at least one of these sets or maybe some individual coins from them :ok:

[trout]

These are a set of the 2016 "In come the Dollars in come the cents" set that I had graded by NGC.
They have the same perfect strike that the Wedding set coins have but the fields have a different finish because standard unpolished blanks were used to produce these coins.
The fields on these coins have  a slightly "granular" look to them But the coins have a Proof Like appearance as noted by NGC with the MSXXDPL attribution, The "DPL" is a Deep Proof Like designation :ok:
These coins are Not the same as the Wedding set coins But they do have similarities

1c MS70DPL
The scratches here are on the slab :dash1:


2c MS69DPL


5c MS68DPL


10c MS68DPL


20c MS68DPL


50c MS68DPL

[r9453]

Very nice set, I don't collect decimal coins since 2013 but this is the kind of issue that would have taken pride of place in my collection.

[trout]

Very nice set, I don't collect decimal coins since 2013 but this is the kind of issue that would have taken pride of place in my collection.

I was very pleasantly surprised at the quality of these coins when I opened my first set.
There was nothing to suggest that these coins were minted differently when they were listed on the RAM site But some of our members here asked about them at the Mint and were told that they were struck more than once on the Proof Presses :good:
I like to think of them as the 2016 wedding set