Noodling Stats - 10c Key Dates

[Hercules]

How's everyone going with noodling the key dates for 10c coins? I'm now up to 11,478 (or $1147.80 worth of) 10c coins, and this is what I've found:

1985: 1
2011: 12
1991: 15
1997: 16
1972: 19

Why is the 1985 10c so scarce compared to the other key dates? I always knew it would be tough to find in circulation, but this is getting ridiculous! Has anyone else had better luck? :dontknow:

[trout]

The 1985 10c is a Mint Set Only coin, Mintage of 170,000.
It is highly unlikely that you will find one of these in circulation :angel:

[gnome]

Page 136 of the 22 nd edition of Maccas says 2,100,000 were circulated as well. I always thought they were mint sets.

[b_j_w_79]

The 1985 10c coin aren't mint set only coin. I have found a lot (with a lot of searching) in circulation.

[Unicorn]

Good work with the 2011's Herc!

I don't noodle them much at all, but from the ones I've done I've never found a 2011.

Keep it up! :good:

[JeffH]

I have three* make that five 1985 and have never sighted a 2011!

*Edit. I forgot about the two sets I have been making up and only looked at my spares bag. Silly me. :s

I don't buy 10¢ (or 5¢ either) for noodling but just put any from change in a container and, when it is full, noodle for any worth keeping and cash in the rest.

[Fulvio]

The 1985 10c is a Mint Set Only coin, Mintage of 170,000.

Nope. '86 and '87 were, however.

[keldaw]

I have only found 1 x 2011, remember a while back I thought it was the 2012 one that was scarce , and I have 1 x 1972 the others I have never kept .

[ausjack]

RAM site has the 1985 at 2 million and the 2011 at 1.7
https://www.ramint.gov.au/ten-cent

[trout]

In the last edition of Macka's on one page it states MSO and yet on the next page it states 2 million minted for circulation for the 1985 10c:dash1:
2 mill it is then :ok:
2 mill is still a rather low mintage and explains why they are "Tough" to find.

[Hercules]

Maccas is talking about the one with the Arnold Machin portrait. The one with the Raphael Maklouf portrait was circulated, but only a very small number of them. :ok:

[trout]

Maccas is talking about the one with the Arnold Machin portrait. The one with the Raphael Maklouf portrait was circulated, but only a very small number of them. :ok:

That is odd because the coins in the 1985 Mint set all have the Maklouf obverse.

[Hercules]

Maccas is talking about the one with the Arnold Machin portrait. The one with the Raphael Maklouf portrait was circulated, but only a very small number of them. :ok:

That is odd because the coins in the 1985 Mint set all have the Maklouf obverse.

Nevertheless, it's listed in the section for the Arnold Machin portrait. However, I'm beginning to think that that line's a mistake, because it doesn't appear in the 2014 edition, and it doesn't appear for any of the other denominations.

[Fulvio]

The one with the Raphael Maklouf portrait was circulated

That's what I've got in the Decimal Mintages PDF, yeah.

[trout]

Old Mate Greg is a tricky old Bugger :laugh2::angel: