Kiwi coins

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  1. Royalewithcheese

    Royalewithcheese New Member

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    Today I was given a kiwi 20c piece as change disguised as an aussie. At first I thought, "this is not 20cents at all!" (more like 15!) but then I thought - surely the kiwi coins have got to be worth close to their melt value. Any thoughts?
     
    Royalewithcheese, Apr 24, 2011
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    goldpelican Administrator Staff Member

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    New ones are steel I believe.
     
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    hiho Active Member Silver Stacker

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    I'll sell you all my loose kiwi change
     
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    it must be an old one then (pre 2006)

    11.3 grams, 50% copper/50% nickel
     
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    unless it was shiny and after 2006, then it steel as GP said
     
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    ah. Damn them clever kiwis. The coin happens to be 1976... though steels would be handy if things ever got so bad that James earl jones came (wanting steel again)
     
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    A 1976 coin is 50/50 copper and nickel. By my rough calculations the base metal value of that is $AUD 0.189 or $NZD 0.254.... so you can see why we changed it to steel.
     
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    umm - shouldn't that be spelt "steal"?
     
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    I've got a growing stack of 20c NZ coins mostly from the 90's; the ones that are identical to the aussie 20c coins in size, weight, content and therefore melt value.

    I like to ponder how the engraved amount makes them less valuable to an aussie 20c coin (i.e. NZD vs AUD) when their melt value is identical. :cool:
     
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    I have a collection of NZ silver proofs. I gave up getting a complete collection as there are multiples of some years and the recent low mintages made the newer proofs expensive to collect.

    Does anyone on this board, especially in NZ, collect or trade the NZ proofs? Most of my proofs are from 1979 to 2000. I am trying to determine what the market for these coins is inside NZ? If the NZ market is weak and I would have to pay custom tax to bring them into NZ, possibly I need to start planning to sell them off and converting the proceeds to .999 silver.
     
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    Hmmm, i definitely replied to this already, not sure what happened. Dccpa, check out trademe.co.nz - its our local ebay equivalent, very very popular. most used NZ site I think.
     
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    Thanks bazz1000. Since I wasn't eligible to purchase things on the web site, I had forgotten about trademe.
     
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