Oops the Emu is a week earlier than i wrote. On pre order from today. Design looks pretty good too, certainly made full use of the space.
Yes. Not widespread as yet, have seen one German dealer available to order. The rest will follow very soon, keep an eye on your preferred shop. I think price will be stable on these for a while so i will wait for my own shop to list, at least they shouldn't increase on hourly or daily basis like the swan. The Emu shouldn't suffer that practise. Slow and steady. Just my own thinking, what does everyone else think?
They are now out direct on Perth Mint (Australia only I believe) and on LPM (https://www.lpm.hk/2019-1-oz-australia-emu-9999-silver-coin-bu.html)
Mine got an error bought 10 pieces i think i should get some more errors. The emu on the right looks like it has a third leg l, the trunk of the tree is proof polished.
It can be good if you flip them early. Same thing happened with the Dragon & Phoenix, some of the coins had a proof spot around the bird's neck. See e.g., https://www.silverstackers.com/foru...errors-and-standard-pairs-sold-pending.84280/
The "three legged silver emu" indeed exists, as seen on their release video. The gold bullion emus have only two legs.
Shouldn't we wait and see if the entire 30,000 run has the polished tree trunk? Not a big deal unless there is a run of frosted ones existing too. And if it exists and is very much in the minority then the frosted one is the rarity. edit: also, the first person to alert a dealer by asking, will make sure that before long all dealers will check stocks and weed out so no-one gets the "better" type for launch price. Bit of a shame this has come to light so soon rather than a few weeks from now.
A lot depends too on how many dies they used for the entire run. 2? 3? 4? And any discussions at the mint that may have happened. If it was spotted after they had minted several thousand on the first die, they could well make the decision to simply repeat the polished field on the rest rather than create an error situation with both polished and frosted. If it wasn't spotted then yes we could have anywhere from 7,500 to half with an error. We can only speculate for now.
I would tend to agree it should have been spotted. But a real error needs to have two distinct types existing. If all have a polished trunk that is a poor design choice and a minor embarrassment for the mint, but the whole run will be uniform.
All the 10 coins you purchased from PM had the same "three legs"? The European distributor is already advertising slabbed and graded coins, so they've likely been shipped out already a while ago. Unsure what PM would do to with the ones they still have in possession, would they scrap them and remint or just leave as is? In latter case there would not be any rarity value as Sully correctly points out.
I saw an ebay add selling 2019 emu coin and his coins are not errors. He is from perth aswell. I bought 10 tube so if you want the errors and from perth mint buy the 10 tube like I did. Goodluck