Deciphering the year of production

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I wrote about Vince’s coin collection and how we’re hoping to dispose of some of the coins. We have a lot of mint rolls like the one in the photo. Australian coins had the queen’s head on one side until she passed away when the image was replaced with King Charles’ head. This is the obverse side as opposed to the ‘reverse’. Prospective buyers like to know the year of production and this is printed on the obverse side. With mint rolls, it can be difficult to read. In the photo it’s on the upper left of the coin. Sometimes you can push the paper back enough to read the year or you can zoom on the date, enough to make out the figures. Occasionally you find a roll with a reverse on each end. Hopefully, such rolls would have been purchased with others of the same year and you can mark the year on the outside. We’ll be taking a small collection of coins to the next numismatics’ meeting on the last Wednesday in August. We can put up six items for sale, supposedly by tender but actually by auction. Again, bureaucrats make rogues out of honest people as an auction has to have a certified auctioneer.