Error in Australia

[TerryS]

Australian coin.Attachment 24047

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[BushyFromOz]

obviously that was well researched!

[Badger]

Doh ....

Has anyone in the press commented on the over sight?

Regards,
Doug

[xa-coupe]

fantastic... now we can show to the world what a bunch of dumbarses we are.

[newcastle]

that's a pretty big one. Four things location, date person and rifle. 25% fail. Could have been worse though , could have said Blackpool 1987

[TerryS]

That pic is from the latest issue of World Coin News. Part of an article on major coin errors that made it into commerce. Another pic was there to show coin collectors what the problem was. Mentions that Australia had the wrong coat-of-arms on its florin from 1937-decimalization. We had a five cent piece that didn't have "cents" on it. Attachment 24054However remember the wrong carbine on our (US) Iwo jima memorial !

[browningautorifle]

Maybe no one will notice...

[smellie]

Those "centsless" nickels are legendary among coin collectors. A number exist which were plated with gold. Supposedly, they sold to immigrants as $5 pieces.

Of course, WE never do anything wrong..... apart from completely ignore the man who discovered North America, 15 years before Leif Eiriksson: Bjarni Herjolfsson, in 985. We have missed the 1000th aniversary of his discovery, the 1000th anniversary of the first effort at European colonisation of the New World (in 1000) and the millennium of the birth of the first European in North America: Snorri, in (likely) 1004. But we don't need to know about the Icelanders. After all, they were a male-centred, literate society and that just isn't politically correct.

When our Gummint finally got around to burying an Unknown Soldier from the Great War, this in a huge public ceremony, they used the wrong flag! They used that white thing with the dead maple leaf rather than the correct flag of the period: the Red Ensign with the Canadian arms on it. My grandfather carried the Ensign under his tunic in the Great War, even though he was born in Scotland: he was a Canadian soldier! After he died, my grandmother burned it. "You wouldn't want that, dear," she said, "It was full of holes and blood and all eat up with gas."

My father served in the RCAF in the Second War. When it came time for his funeral we couldn't find a Red Ensign fast enough so we used the Manitoba flag, which is pretty close. One of Dad's friends saw the flag and said quietly, "So the old bu**er got the last word in again!" That felt good.
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[RJW NZ]

sorry to be a real dumb ***, what are the faults, for us non aussies? At a stretch the rifle could be a No4 not a No1, and the coastline doesn't look much like gally poli but its not a great image so I'm not sure.

[smellie]

Rifle is DEFINITELY a Number 4.

The photo looks like one taken at that time. Landforms do look different depending on your point of viewing.

Oh well...... nobody will notice.

Except the people who want it right.... because it matters.
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