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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;calcol, post: 24647595, member: 77639&quot;]Recently, I became aware that the Royal Australian Mint started issuing a series of 1 oz. bullion coins in 2019 that featured different species of dolphins.&nbsp; There is a new species every year.&nbsp; First was the bottlenose; in 2023, it’s the rough-toothed.&nbsp; Nice looking coins; see the pics.&nbsp; Every year, there are minted 250 gold AU$100 coins and 25,000 silver AU$1 coins as business strikes.&nbsp; There are also 1,000 silver proofs minted with the design the same as the regular strike coins, but higher relief along with the proof planchet and strike.&nbsp; When I first learned of the proof coins, I assumed they would also be AU$1.&nbsp; Nope, they are AU$5!</p><p><br /></p><p>So, I looked at the PCGS pop report to see how many silver proofs had been certified for 2019-2022 coins.&nbsp; In the pop report, PCGS does not give the dolphin coins their own group.&nbsp; Instead, they are lumped in the huge category of “Decimal Coinage”.&nbsp; And this is where data mayhem exists.&nbsp; For 2020-2022, everything seemed OK.&nbsp; Searched “dolphin” under $5 proof coins and came up with pops of 139, 121 and 100 for the three years.&nbsp; Almost all are PR70DCAM.&nbsp; Rather remarkable that 10% or more of the mintages of each of those years made it into PCGS holders.</p><p><br /></p><p>But 2019 was not to be found.&nbsp; eBay to the rescue.&nbsp; Figured with that many coins certified, some should be on eBay including the 2019.&nbsp; And I found one with numbers on the label of 800583.70/384022848.&nbsp; So, I entered the cert. no. on the PCGS website.&nbsp; And yep, the coin is there with a grade of PR70DCAM and matching type no. of 800583.&nbsp; Pop in PR70 was listed as 50.&nbsp; If I click on the type number, the main heading states the type is a $5 silver proof, but the subheading says it’s in the Kangaroo/Nugget/$5 gold group!</p><p><br /></p><p>If I click on the pop. number of 50 on the verification page, I’m taken to the Kangaroo/Nugget/$5 gold group.&nbsp; And if I search for dolphin here, yup, I find the 2019 silver proof.&nbsp; But the pop is 10, not 50, and there is a new type no. of 800581.&nbsp; If I click on that type number, I go to yet another page for silver $5 proofs (but still under the subheading Kangaroo/Nugget/$5 gold).</p><p><br /></p><p>OK, you get the idea.&nbsp; There’s a saying that folks screw-up, but if they want to do a really good job of it, they need a computer.&nbsp; So, if you want to look at the pic below and go, great! But there’s more.&nbsp; When I originally thought the proofs would be $1 face like the business strikes, I tried to search PCGS pop report for $1 proofs between 2019-2022 with keyword of “dolphin”.&nbsp; And I found one! Type number 809054 with only 3 coins in it …. 2020 spinner dolphin coins but no pics.&nbsp; This coin should not exist.&nbsp; Maybe a few folks sent in business strikes that looked like proofs, put proof on the form, and PCGS went along with it.&nbsp;&nbsp; Maybe they’re patterns that managed to escape into the wild.&nbsp; Maybe mules with a proof planchet, proof dolphin die but the queen side, which has the denomination, being the business strike die. Who knows?</p><p><br /></p><p>And yeah, I’ll forward this info to PCGS.</p><p><br /></p><p>Cal</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1568953[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1568954[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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