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Formerly nancyc
Australia
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I've got 51 circulated... wouldn't mind 100! Even if they only ever got back to $15 bucks, that's a cool $1500 ;) Hmmm...I make it $765.  Take off $2.55 for the face value, it leaves $762.45, nice little profit.  life is a mystery to be lived not a problem to be solved
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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Tim,
I think it's time to admit you just like finding them!!
:)
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Valued Member
 Australia
318 Posts |
I might be addicted ozcoins. I got another $100 today from the bank.
I'm a school teacher, and work about 35 minutes from school which has it's own bank, so during term I use that branch. But the Bathurst commbank ladies expect me in there every holidays. Is that sad that they know me as the noodling teacher?
One of the girls was excited today when she told me she had a huge amount of copper. I was stoked! Then she said $6.72... I was hoping she would have meant 30 bucks!
Nancy; I meant if I had a 100 I'd have $1500!
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
1005 Posts |
I started off searching 5c too....
Also with an aim of making up oomplete sets, I have not made sets up yet, but have kept "nice" coins to do it later.
Now I am searching 50c - mainly looking for 2000 incuse flag, and 2010 rotated.
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Formerly nancyc
Australia
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Nancy; I meant if I had a 100 I'd have $1500! Ahah!  I see now what you were getting at. My mistake.   life is a mystery to be lived not a problem to be solved
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Valued Member
Australia
318 Posts |
You wouldn't believe it, pulled another $100 out of bank
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7 x 1972
1 x $2
What a bargain bag.
Also got 7 bucks worth of copper. 2 x 1968 1c, 1 x 1968 2c, 1 x 1968 2c NO SD! :)
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
1005 Posts |
I don't think I have ever found more than 3 and have found none quite often.
Well done!
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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I just grabbed $20 worth of these out of the bank , that is plenty to ruin my eyes for the rest of the day |
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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I had one $200 lot which the teller said an old lady had brought in. There was not a single coin older than 1998. I cant remember the exact number of 72's that I found but it was over 20.
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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This is the first time I have noodled these little suckers I GOT 1   |
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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Well done trout last time I noodled $25 I only found 1 and for some reason I also found no 2007s  Edited by flippy
01/14/2013 11:59 pm
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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Well done. 1 in $20 is beating the odds.
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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Well done. 1 in $20 is beating the odds.
 sheer dumb luck  Anymore than $20 of these coins and my eyes would burn out |
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I did some analysis of the mintage numbers for each year, and from memory (based purely on mintage numbers till 2008) there should be 3 * 72 in each $100 worth of 5c
However this does not take into account
-old coins have more time/chance of being removed from circulation
-1972s have been removed even more by collectors
-2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012 have been released making 72s more scarce
My guess is that you would be lucky to find 2 in each $100 of 5c (2000 coins)
Bottom line: You did well!!
PS. I use an led magnifying glass
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