Bank rang me at work the other day to come in; they had $20 worth or 1c and 2c pieces come in. The lot was made up of $16 worth of 1c pieces and 4$ worth of 2c pieces.
The 1 cent lot... well, it contained 2 x 1968s.
HOWEVER
The $4 worth of 2c pieces contained 28 1968s!! (Didn't bother checking for no sds, but could this be one of best finds in a long time? ;)
The bank manager's last day in town was Friday. Hope new manager is equally good ;)
Not sure on the 1969s -- my process with copper is to pull out the 1968s and throw them in my 1968 copper jar... for safe keeping, or a rainy day, whatever - dunno what I'll do with em. -- all other dates I just throw into my scrap box, when I get 10kg or so I take them in for scrapping. Got probably 25kg of them last year, but so far not much this year except that $20 haul - everything else has been in lots less than $1-
well I think the trick is to get un noodled lots, I tend to raid banks and get told they have had them for upwards of 20 years! however I have cleaned all the banks out within 60km of wa cbd (racked a few kms up!)
The good thing about copper is that, at most banks you need an account to get money, but they're happy to give copper to non-customers - I was surprised when I tried a few other local branches.
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