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Australian rare coins11/27/2023 The purchaser submitted the coin to PCGS, where it was graded MS68, and it subsequently sold into a private collection. It is not publically known why the issue was never released to collectors, but the result is a unique coin with a surviving mintage of one. This single coin was plucked from the mintage and impounded in the Mint Master Collection, as was the procedure at the time the remaining mintage was not issued and subsequently destroyed. Research revealed that in 2009 a series of coins featuring the Crimson Rosella was minted. The purchaser bought the coin out of the Mint Master Collection, where the coin was not identified as outstanding or unique in any way. Twenty to forty coins known: A 2005 proof mob of 'roos one dollar.ĭiscovered by accident by the purchaser when he could not find the coin in the catalogue, the 2009 Rosella One Dollar coin bears the design of the 2011 Crimson Rosella One Dollar from the Air Series-but is dated 2009. It is not as rare as the 2005 proof platypus twenty cent or the 2006 silver two cent with the mature bust, but is still extremely collectable. As a consequence, the coin is widely-known, and keenly sought-after. It was discovered by Melbourne coin dealer Downies, who featured the coin in their monthly catalogue. Much has already been written about the famous 2005 proof mob of ‘roos one dollar coin. Two known: A silver two cent with the mature bust. The number of 2006 proof silver mature bust two cent pieces in existence is not known, and as few collectors seem to be aware of the coin, the undiscovered coins may remain unidentified for many years to come. PCGS describes the coin a mule, but as both the copper and gold versions of the coin have identical designs, one could just as easily call the error version an off-metal strike too. The standard silver two cent piece in that set contains the young bust of Queen Elizabeth by Arnold Machin, but at least two sets contained the updated mature bust. The coins are found in the 2006 fine silver set. A passionate coin collector, who is also from the north west of Sydney, obtained that coin, and to my knowledge, still has it in their collection. The second coin was acquired from a Melbourne source, and subsequently graded PR69DC by PCGS. The coin subsequently scored a perfect 70. That coin was purchased by a north-west Sydney collector, who submitted it to PCGS. Prior to their discovery, rumours whirled about their existence, and it wasn’t long before an example appeared on the market. Like the 2005 proof platypus twenty cent, the 2006 silver two cent bearing Ian Rank-Broadley’s Elizabeth is a world-class rarity, currently known by just two coins. Unique: A proof 2005 twenty cent with the playpus reverse.Ģ006 Proof Two Cent Mature Bust in Silver Mule or not, the coin is incredibly rare and one of the most desirable modern rarities to come out of Canberra in the last fifty years. The 2005 proof platypus twenty cent graded PCGS PR70DC featured heavily on social media when it was first certified, triggering spirited debate around the meaning of a mule and whether this coin could be classed as one. Rumours persist that one or two more specimens exist, still in their 2006 proof set packaging, but these mythical coins have not appeared on the market in the last decade and the owners of those coins are not publically known. That coin now resides in a PCGS PR70DC holder, and sits proudly in the collection of a passionate Sydney coin collector. The single example that is known to collectors came out of an old Victorian deceased estate late 2019. To this day, the circumstances around the coin’s creation, as well as its mintage, remain a mystery. The coin, with Stuart Devlin’s original platypus design on the reverse, was not meant to exist in proof that year, as the 2005 proof twenty cent from the 2005 proof set has a different design. ![]() The only publically-known 2005 proof platypus twenty cent was found in a 2006 annual proof set. ![]() This list is not definitive, and if you know of any coins that are not on the list but should be, we’ll add them. Here’s a list of the world-class modern rarities Australia has produced in the last few decades. They sell for thousands of dollars, are sometimes unique, and are very often not widely known. These coins, all minted in very low numbers, are the crème de la crème of the upper crust of the modern coin market. While there are dozens of ultra-rarities amongst the Australian pre-decimal and gold series, there are only a few truly rare modern Australian coins (“modern” meaning coins dated after 1965).
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