Post Your Australian Circulation Finds

OK, have decided to post the highlights of my last 3 noodles here. The first one was my first noodle of bulk 20c pieces. Was surprised how few commemoratives there were (actually 5 in total) but I got a 2004 Big Head plus a 2001 Federation Tasmania. Was missing both from my collection. Also got 3 Kiwi ring-ins. Actually at one point the Kiwi coins were outnumbering the commemoratives.
The second noodle was 500 dollar coins. A bit lack luster but a few Coin Hunt specimens and a shiny changeover dollar. Finally my most recent noodle of another 500 dollar coins was pretty awesome. Highlights were a 2019 A,U,S hat-trick, some more Coin Hunt dollars, Sydney Bridge C, a shiny dancing man plus a 2007 MOR. . Am getting a few coin hunt dollars now so even though a late start, was thinking I might try and noodle a set before Coaster. Also odd that I got 9 donation dollars in 1 lot, a single one in another lot, but nothing since.

@Princetane - I think you left Russell Crowe off the list.
Yes, we'll claim anything or anyone that gives us extra kudos. Although does anyone know these days what a Chinese Gooseberry is?
It's surprising how often Kiwi coinage turns up in circulation. I wonder how many kiwis are still passing their old coinage through Aussie vending machines?

Nice haul David, especially the big head 20c.
I haven't seen one of those in circulation
for years. I find Kiwi coins in change quite
often too. I have a bag full of them.

Princetane, what about Pavlova? I'm sure we
claim that as being Aussie too.

Steve :)

It was free dress day at work on Wednesday for a gold coin donation (or equivalent). I got a chance to go through the collection during lunch break.

Some nice recent mintage finds, especially the Repatriation $2 which is UNC condition and was missing from my collection.
More kiwi coinage thanks to our Kiwi neighbours. Princetane, tell your fellow countrymen to stop polluting our circulating currency!
Also some sort of token from a cheapskate student, No idea what it is. Is the same on both sides. Am hoping someone will tell me that at least it's not casino related. Students handing in casino tokens in lieu of actual money would be wrong in so many ways.

@coaster - Thanks. Yep, getting the dibs on work functions involving coins is a good way to go. I get dibs to noodle the coins on the free dress days and other fund raising activities like doughnut and pizza days. The rumour is that there are more enrolments next year so more coins.
Unfortunately the co-ordinator will be different next year so don't yet know who I have to butter up to get access in 2021. I'll be working on it.
Am also finding it harder to get bags of loot from the CBA. How am I meant to get my purple coronation, 1966 wavy, missing Mr Squiggles, remaining olympic colours and complete the coin hunt without access to coins!! I may have to start emptying the auto-roll dispensers. I find it a bit odd that the lady from CBA was saying they need the coins for local small businesses yet I always see business owners depositing coins AND one lady told me the coins are collected a certain day of the week. I mean, which small business needs 500 dollar coins for their tills over a 24 hour period? Even work gets rolls delivered by a security company instead of trotting down to the local branch. Something suss happening me thinks.
PS Will be sorting some more foreign coins so hopefully some more in the Steve pile!

Excellent group!

Got another 500 $1 coins the other day. A few shiny ones and surprises, especially the Vermont State Quarter and a 1989 CoA. Would love to know how a coin that is thinner, weighs less, has a smaller diameter and is not even the same colour gets passed as an Oz $1 coin by the CBA coin sorter!! Last $1 noodle for a few weeks. Have a bag of 20s plus I need to enter my 10c collection so also grabbed a few hundred 10s. After that it's a 10kg foreign bag then hopefully a big bag of $2.