Alphabet $1 Coins

[Unicorn]

One down (A), twenty five to go!
Advice from the local PO is only the first six available yet and sets later.

Welcome home Jeff!!!!

Hope you had a great trip :good:

[jens coins]

The letters week by week:

[msdcairns]

Image of the Alphabet Coin Sets to be released on 28/10/2019.

The 26 coin tube has at least 1 privymarked coin. It is not known if the other 25 are privymarked.



Cheers Mike

Wow - what will be the mintage of the Silver Proof?

[Nevol]

Wow - what will be the mintage of the Silver Proof?

With a release date of 28th Oct, I reckon you should have a fair chance of getting that info from a recent currency determination.  Good luck.

This one might do the trick"
https://jade.io/article/649268/section/163636

Nah, no go, Mintage figures not given. Bugger!

[eirrab]

Thanks, Jens for the week by week release. Very helpful.
And wondering, like Nevol, what the mintage is likely to be. Having fun on a PO crawl anyway. Bought quite a few $1 stamps to get coins in change

[jens coins]

Post Offices sell 5c & 10c stamps, so that is what I have been buying.

[Triggersmob]

I bought some $1 stamps at the beginning of the week, which I will use anyway.
Then I bought an envelope that I needed. The next day I bought a $2 stamp for
the envelope. By the end of the week the staff were just giving me the coins I
needed and now they have a money bag in the till with my name on it and they
will just put coins in there every day for me. Just need to pop in at the end of
the week and pick them up. Now I just have to hope it all goes to plan.

[redlock]

Now I just have to hope it all goes to plan.

I keep my fingers crossed :exclamation:

[JeffH]

I went to the P.O. today to post a packet of coins to a fellow forum member and....good news/bad news.
The bad news is they have run out of alphabet coins. the good news is they have more coming, including week one letters, and will hold some for me.

[Triggersmob]

That's good news Jeff.
I managed to complete week 2 coins today.
Big week coming up next though.

[runway]

Don't panic about securing these from Post Offices or eBay just wait until end of October and buy the tube

[redlock]

Don't panic about securing these from Post Offices or eBay just wait until end of October and buy the tube

But they have -- well, at least the one with letter ''A'' -- a privy mark. Great idea. Unfortunately, it immediately identifies them as coins from the tube. They are more ''collector coins'' than ''circulation coins.'' Yes, I am fully aware, some of them will make it into actual circulation and the $1 denomination is a circulation denomination. But for me, the $1 with privy marks aren't ''actual'' circulation coins. (I hope this makes sense to our readers...)

[runway]

My take on this entire scenario is that random tubes will have the privymark, if the tubes are not sealed I would be very wary of buying them from certain dealers ... very similar to to 2016 $5 new notes

[Triggersmob]

It certainly makes sense to me and fortunately we will
not have to worry about buying the rolls.
12 down and 14 to go.

[jens coins]

Michael noodled a "S" today