Noodling Find Of The Week?

They're both noodling finds. I almost always use EFTPOS these days, so I don't get much pocket change.

The last big finds I had from pocket change were in 2009, when I found a 1972 5c and a 2000 $1/10c mule, but ever since then, I've struggled to find anything exciting. That's why I turned to noodling, because it was the only way I could reliably fill the gaps in my collection.

One thing I can't understand is why the mint deliberately releases low-mintage coins into circulation, when they know they haven't made enough to meet demand, and when they could have easily made the mintage much higher by reducing the overall mintage for the other competing designs.

What is the point of capping the coloured $2 coins at 1 or 2 million, when there are 24 million people in Australia, and 5-10 million people want at least one of each? The mintage of $2 coins over the last few years has consistently been over 30 million, so why couldn't they have made 5-10 million of each coloured release?

What is the point of minting only 1.1 million MoR $1 coins in 2014, and (presumably, based on current noodling stats) only 1 million ANZAC coins in 2015? Wouldn't it have been better to split the 2014 and 2015 $1 releases evenly between the ANZAC and MoR designs?

It looks to me as if the mint is deliberately trying to lock certain people out of the numismatic market, particularly children and people on low incomes. Many of these people will only ever encounter such coins if they find them in change, so why is the mint trying to make it as difficult as possible for them?

The way I see it is the Mint is way too busy churning out Granny Bait that they can sell for crazy prices, such as this recent offering: https://eshop.ramint.gov.au/2016-50.../310971.aspx

3 x 50c coins for just $45. A mere 30x face value! Talk about having a license to make money.

As long as there are gullible people who will buy this rubbish, don't expect anything to change.

Seriously, will people who are now adults buy these coins because they watched PS when they were kids?

Not something I would even consider!

Nicely found
This is a "Mint your own" coin from one of the gallery presses at the Canberra Mint.
Mintage 135,221.

Just picked up $4 of 5 cents coins and found a nice 1972. Very happy. First one for me.

These are my NCLT dollar coins noodled over the years.

Excellent finds Andy!

Pedro

Thanks Pedro and Ozcoins.

Favourite coin is the Wavy 2 I found, next would be this mis-strike. So excited when I found it.

Nice one! Have you checked to make sure it's not a collar error?