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Pillar of the Community
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Intriguing idea. Are you then going to offer them on ebay? I tire of the endless candy, cards, gift wrap, etc,etc,etc my grandkids are constantly hitting me up for. |
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Valued Member
 Australia
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Yes Fioti; ebay seems like it would be the best place to offload them. It also means we're not hitting up the local community for $$ which is one of the big plus points with this project. |
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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The trading section on CCF would be a good place to offer some of these sets.  I'm sure that there are plenty of members willing to help with your schools fundraising efforts and the Aussie 5 cent coins are pretty popular with collectors. Who Else has a cute little echidna on their coins |
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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For lots of reasons that is a nice idea!
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Valued Member
Australia
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Good idea. Noodling doesn't cost anything (bar the coins that you keep!)
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Valued Member
Malta
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Valued Member
Australia
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A curiosity with noodling!
Our local bank had $18.25 worth of 1 and 2 cent pieces.
We found: 1968 1c piece x 7 and 1968 2x piece x 9!
I know!
Anyways, we were unable to make full sets. Even though we found 9 1968 2c pieces we only had 5 1970 and 4 1969.
Similar story with 1c pieces, we only found 4 x 1990 1c pieces.
I was a little gobsmacked. Anyone else have similar puzzling experiences with copper? I've never noodled cooper before.
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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I went trough about $25-$30 of copper yesterday and found the same sort of thing. Out of all my 2c which is about 5000 I only have (going to sell them tomorrow) around 20 1969 and 30 1970. The other year I don't have heaps of is 1974  mintage was huge. Probably have closer to 8000 1c and I have more 1968 1c than 1969 1c. Strange things happen. Also like you mentioned before the 1991 5c is reasonably hard to find but has a decent mintage of approx 30 million. As to why I have no idea! |
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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I think it is either Jeff or bjw that has hundreds of dollars of copper cents but I might be wrong. Wonder what he has found.
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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Quote:
Also like you mentioned before the 1991 5c is reasonably hard to find but has a decent mintage of approx 30 million. As to why I have no idea!
It could be the same case as for the 1983 1984 20 cent coins big mintage's then recalled. Good luck finding either of these in circulation|| |
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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One more thing: you probably will get around $10 for the 1968 2c and $5 for the 1968 1c. Seeing as you found 9 and 7 you are probably leading the fundraising at the school. This is the best fundraising activity I have ever heard of for school kids. Well done.
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Formerly nancyc
Australia
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CoinManTim: Quote:
Anyways, we were unable to make full sets. Even though we found 9 1968 2c pieces we only had 5 1970 and 4 1969.
How many sets are you trying to assemble? What coins you are missing, and how many do you need? I might have some spares I can donate to the fundraising venture.  life is a mystery to be lived not a problem to be solved
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Valued Member
Australia
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Nancy, you are delightful!
We had no goals with the cooper sets so what we ended up with is fine. All the remaining coins beyond the sets we could actually make were just bagged up - so, will thank you for the offer, but we can sell the sets + 1968 singles. - Saves you the hassle of finding the right dates, me the hassle of going back through the coppers to find the right dates and we're still making $$ (hopefully).
The coopers were just to break up the monotony of hunting through 5 cent pieces. - An enjoyable departure as the kids for the most part hadn't ever seen a 1 or 2 cent piece.
(I'm 24 and my memory of them is finding them in Nan and Pop's backyard - and it didn't click to me that these kids would never had seen them before).
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Valued Member
Australia
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For those interested I have done the breakdown of my 1c/2c coins;
1c ($120+)
Year Percentage
1966 9.11
1967 2.68
1968 0.97
1969 1.77
1970 1.75
1971 2.53
1972 1.98
1973 3.96
1974 3.78
1975 4.12
1976 4.49
1977 5.10
1978 4.01
1979 5.06
1980 4.31
1981 9.91
1982 2.72
1983 15.68
1984 1.25
1985 1.26
1987 4.94
1988 3.75
1989 4.19
1990 0.67
2c ($185+)
Year Percentage
1966 14.53
1967 2.59
1968 0.49
1969 0.36
1970 1.42
1971 2.35
1972 3.28
1973 5.18
1974 7.11
1975 4.93
1976 4.99
1977 2.95
1978 4.18
1979 5.06
1980 4.96
1981 12.56
1982 4.97
1983 11.52
1984 0.95
1985 1.21
1988 1.02
1989 3.39
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