I see heaps of poppy and stopped collecting them as they feel not very rare to me... Maybe I have just been lucky?
thats how i felt about poppys when they first came out. I think i missed quite a few nice condition ones back then, but then Sammy told me to save them, and Sammy knows best. At worst they will always be worth $2 I suppose. The coronations though I feel have potential.
I think at worst, should the SHTF, the $2 coins will figure in my cash reserves. I have about $250 worth of poppies and coronations. There are few red poppies in circulation, for other than the carded proofs from the RAM, the red poppies were sold by the RSL clubs for about $9 each as a fund raiser, so they will always have value. I have yet to find a red poppy in circulation, which is why I feel the coloured coronations will always have value.
sadly, I am still waiting to find any coloured $2 coins in my change, but am still keen in finding them. I have found a handful of "non-coloured $2 poppy" coins which I was happy with. I spent the first few I got, but have saved the others I have found since. Also, I have noticed that the $1 ANZAC 100 year coin is now out to the public. I found 2 in the last 24 hours in my change (at two different stores). I am happy to see them. Its like a kid in a candy store. lol. Feels good having news coins in my hands. Am going to save them for the moment. May wait until circulation numbers are announced. Or until budgets go down...
The coloured $2 have been hoarded out of circulation. There's going to be 21 (or 22 it's early and I am not coffeed up yet) million ANZAC coins......
I found a 1943 war nickle, I wasn't even trying to look for it. I was feeding change into a vending machine and felft the difference. I wish I had learned about this along time before, who knows how much valuable change I got rid of
*sigh* still hoping a gold $200 coin falls out of a vending machine or even poker machine somewhere in my proximity. I am getting a fair few coronation and poppy coins through the tills and even one round fifty lately
They have almost been hoarded out of circulation. I've only found a couple in circulation and haven't had one for a couple of months.
Thanks, a slightly misaligned die but the lack of an associated error with the collar means it's worth $2 and not unusual.
Shiny 2014 1 Yen (aluminium 1g) This year they are spending 25 million dollars* to make 16 millon dollars worth of 1 yen coins. That is 1.6 billion coins. Last year only 26 million were made. In 2011 and 2012, under 1 million, only available in mint sets. *The cost is estimated, since the mint keeps the cost a secret. "To maintain confidence in the money of the people, and because doing so would facilitate the counterfeiting of money" :lol: Some people say the cost is 3 yen a piece.
The coffee shop girls had 2 poppies and 1 coronation for me this morning. The first $300 of my SHTF cash is made up of these $2 coins.
^^Hit with a mower, then someone detected it and dug it up then straightend it with a hammer. Sorry it was probably me
