Australia wasn't the one to start things like this, they are just jumping on the band wagon. The first time I saw something like this was about...
It is Post Strike Damage. A dropped letter would be incuse not raised.
I don't see it as them using them with intent, just as being forced into it because they didn't have a choice.
Mintages aren't everything, survival rates are more important. The 95 O and S may have had higher mintages, but a lower survival rate would mean...
You can get it reholdered, and you can probably be pretty safe about it not being regraded if you point out that they just put the wrong label on...
In the last couple years before they cut off the circulation issue the Mint got the great idea to allow the general public to order boxes of rolls...
Interesting, I've never heard of or seen any red skull cap painted quarters. New story for me.
Flawed planchet. Die wear and the subsequent flow lines tend to be radial from the center of the coin. These lines are all linear like you would...
It looks like Post Strike Damage to me as well.
Except when need to because of the difficulty of making the dies (early years of the mint) or not being able to keep up with demand for dies...
I find the comments about the ink coming off interesting. My understanding of how the polymer notes are created is that they are a "sandwich" of...
I don't know, mintages seem to be fairly flat to me during the late 90s to mid 2000's UNTIL 2010, the same year the snakeskin was introduced, and...
Yep, 216 no doubt.
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