Today I found in my change...............

About five years ago I got a 1928 florin in my change. Same size as a twenty cent piece. Wasn't a collector back then but looked it up on the net and saw it was worth about $20. I gave it to some relatives visiting from Switzerland as a memento of Australia about a year later.
The memory of the coin stuck in my mind and I started collecting two years ago - silver bullion coins and some proofs. Also hang onto 50c pieces for some reason, too (no rounds yet!). Have quite a collection in my office drawer. I'm hping to find another florin one day...
 
Got a round 50 cent passed to me as a 20 cent in my change once. That was the best "find" I have had so far! Keep hoping to get a Gold $200 coin passed off as a $1, hasn't happened yet.
 
Bullion Baron said:
I have been putting aside the special 50c piece designs, federation, millennium year, commonwealth games, world war, etc... are these still worth holding onto in circulated condition?
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I hope so because I have 2 commonwealth games mint rolls :)
 
Bullion Baron said:
I have been putting aside the special 50c piece designs, federation, millennium year, commonwealth games, world war, etc... are these still worth holding onto in circulated condition?
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the only ones you should keep are 1993 CoA, 1991 rams head, 85 coa, 88 bi cenetary, 97 CoA, 05 WWII cuds, and incused millenniums
 
This was given to me in change at the local Coles supermarket!
Boy did i score,after i took it into a Gold buyers store and had it assayed i came out $345 richer!!!!
Gods looking after me!!
REDBACK

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Dafuq? True reddie? No you farkin didn't!!!!!!!! Liar. I got fooled. :/

Anyway, I love the public. We bought 2 bags of 50c pieces off a customer, lo and behold, 3 x 1966 50's in there then a young fella came in with a handful of coin (5's and 10's) after an Ice Tea - bingo, a 1949 Three pence. That's $33!! Not bad for outlaying a $1.05!!! :lol:

Edited to swear at that redbacked spider.
 
REDBACK said:
Boy did i score,after i took it into a Gold buyers store and had it assayed i came out $345 richer!!!!
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This is the bit that is not believable - that you would go to Gold Buyers!
 
LOL come on guys this is a total Gee up, do any of you know what that coin is?
It's a 1852 Adelaide Pound,only a relatively small number of coins were struck just 24,768 and many of these ended up in the melting pot when it was discovered that they could be shipped off to London and melted down for a profit.

Today, only around 250 of the 1852 Adelaide Pounds are held in private collections, including fewer than 50 of the famous 'cracked die' variety examples showing a flaw that developed in the die during the first striking.

I think REDBACK's post was made to fool and I think he actually got some of you :)
 
SilverSurfer77 said:
LOL come on guys this is a total Gee up, do any of you know what that coin is?
It's a 1852 Adelaide Pound,only a relatively small number of coins were struck just 24,768 and many of these ended up in the melting pot when it was discovered that they could be shipped off to London and melted down for a profit.

Today, only around 250 of the 1852 Adelaide Pounds are held in private collections, including fewer than 50 of the famous 'cracked die' variety examples showing a flaw that developed in the die during the first striking.

I think REDBACK's post was made to fool and I think he actually got some of you :)
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Nooo, your not supposed to tell them
 
SilverSurfer77 said:
It's a 1852 Adelaide Pound,only a relatively small number of coins were struck just 24,768 and many of these ended up in the melting pot when it was discovered that they could be shipped off to London and melted down for a profit.
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I thought it was a half sov at first, and I thought, nice price. Until I looked closer. And it said "1852". And then it said "Adelaide". So I said "Redback you arsehole!!!!!" :lol:
 
SilverSurfer77 said:
LOL come on guys this is a total Gee up, do any of you know what that coin is?
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Yes I know what it is - was just trying to be a little less direct at calling his BS :)

But getting one in your change is not out of the realm of possibility.
The diameter is mid way between a current $1 and $2 coin and with the same colour could be mistaken for one of those.
OK not very likely, but not impossible.
 
My little brother went back to the milk bar yesterday and came home with 8 round 50's, he knew I had a few and that they had silver in them, so when he got one in his change he asked the cashier lad if they had any more and what do you know they had 7 more :), so he offered 60c ea and they went for it :lol: , thinking it was the deal of the century.

He wanted $2 ea (me being nice i gave him $6ea in the end) still a good deal for me, but damn he is good (he is 9 by the way)
 
i cant help but scan every single coin and note i see in my day.

Its a profitable and rewarding past time.
I like errors and rare years in Decimal coins, last and first prefix polymer notes. Especially with cool serial numbers
Found this week. i dint go out today. (but found 2 x very nice 1931 penny's in the above coin tin.
1972 10c rattling around in a coin tin.
3x Radar notes (all at once)
one 23456 serial
an almost solid / semi solid? radar 55111555

and a couple of misstrike $2 coins
 
some guy told me the next big thing could be the 1972 5c coin-only 1mill mintage-who knows? he could be right...

I always look at my change,always :)
 
I was talking to a woman the other day - she had a 1930 something florin.

Not unusual, but where it came from was.

She bought a carton of milk at Coles and the florin was under the carton ----- ?

Amazing IMO, how the hell would it get there?

Have a great day all


Gazza
 
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