Decimal Mintages

[Fulvio]

Thank you Fulvio for your straightforward explanation. Btw, where on earth, or beyond, do Maccas & Renniks get their numbers from? I can see that in some cases its simply rounding errors but... :derisive:

Same place as everybody else... they start with the reports, and add lots of guesswork. But being weighty tomes, everybody assumes they're accurate.

[r9453]

Fair enough! :gamer:

[interest]

Just noticed the RAM list of Fifty Cent pieces
http://www.ramint.gov.au/designs/ram-designs/50c.cfm
does not include the 2005 Coat of Arms.

[trout]

Just noticed the RAM list of Fifty Cent pieces
http://www.ramint.gov.au/designs/ram-designs/50c.cfm
does not include the 2005 Coat of Arms.

There was only 30,000 of these minted with 5000 allocated for sale in Australia.
These were on a PNC issue with a Pommy 50p coin World Heritage issue.

This coin :ok:

[coxspau]

Thanks Fulvio. Very nice work indeed.

Interesting to note that the RAM hasn't yet included mintages for 2011 onwards. You'd think 2 years was enough for the RAM to melt any unsold and tally up the remaining.

[trout]

Thanks Fulvio. Very nice work indeed.

Interesting to note that the RAM hasn't yet included mintages for 2011 onwards. You'd think 2 years was enough for the RAM to melt any unsold and tally up the remaining.

I doubt that the RAM would "Melt" any coins already made.
I think they simply store them until the need arises for more coins of a particular denomination and issue them accordingly.
That's why IMHO they delay the information on mintage figures :ok:

[Fulvio]

I think they simply store them until the need arises for more coins of a particular denomination and issue them accordingly.

Which is why you sometimes see mintages spread over three years. They don't go back and mint more with the previous year on them, but they release them from stores.

[Australian coin]

its very easy, the RAM mint coins, the government buy them to put them into circulation, thus mintages are over time
if the mint do a run of 5million at a time but the government only want to buy 1 million coins the mint has to sit on the spares till they are needed.
unless the government do a special commemorative order like the, plain poppy $2, or the new colour $2, then they set the mintage and say we need this amount of coins made to be release within this timeframe, and that mintage is final.

[interest]

I've been looking at the mintage figures of Fifty cent pieces to find the lowest mintage.
I haven't considered Gold or silver proofs, just the Cupro - Nickle at this stage.
Any guess's as to which coin I've come up with?
Could be a bit of a surprise.

[Fordprefect]

1969 Yarralumla "Specimen" 400 released into circulation.

[Fulvio]

1969 Yarralumla "Specimen" 400 released into circulation.

There was quite a story behind those IIRC. Didn't a bunch of the overruns go into the mint shop till?

[Fordprefect]

1969 Yarralumla "Specimen" 400 released into circulation.

There was quite a story behind those IIRC. Didn't a bunch of the overruns go into the mint shop till?

Nuphil requested (and paid for) a 2000 run.
Their records indicate a total 1330 PNC's sold.
(I've seen somewhere that the No. maybe 1650
maybe a PNC collector could comment)
Balance of run 350/670 distributed via Mint till.

400 seems a nice round number, but no chance
of determining a circulated 69' Specimen.

[trout]

1969 Yarralumla "Specimen" 400 released into circulation.

There was quite a story behind those IIRC. Didn't a bunch of the overruns go into the mint shop till?

Nuphil requested (and paid for) a 2000 run.
Their records indicate a total 1330 PNC's sold.
(I've seen somewhere that the No. maybe 1650
maybe a PNC collector could comment)
Balance of run 350/670 distributed via Mint till.

400 seems a nice round number, but no chance
of determining a circulated 69' Specimen.

:i_agree:
But I doubt that this will stop some dodgy eBay seller from trying to sell a bashed 1969 COA as a circulated  Yarralumla "Specimen" :dodgy:

[Fulvio]

But I doubt that this will stop some dodgy eBay seller from trying to sell a bashed 1969 COA as a circulated  Yarralumla "Specimen" :dodgy:

Awwww.. y'think? Don't be giving them any ideas mate. :angel:

[Mister T]

400 seems a nice round number, but no chance
of determining a circulated 69' Specimen.

Isn't there? Maybe I'm remembering wrong but I thought that the last CAB article on the Yarralumla PNC mentioned some die markers/chips that the specimens have and normal circulation coins don't.