Results Of First Noodling Attempt With Bulk Coins From Bank.

Good haul!

Yes, was surprised by the number of commemoratives in both lots.

Am taking the remainder coins back this afternoon and will get some more this week. Only problem is the branch with the big coin coiunter in in a large shopping centre. There seem to be less and less stand-alone branches. I think it's a bad move for banks to be investing in such places as I suspect large shopping malls will be dead in 20-50 years. It's already happening for smaller malls.

Princetane - Ha.. you have just given me a cunning plan (you could almost put a tail on it and call it a weasel!). I wonder if you could load some money into pokies and hit collect without playing to receive the change. My thinking goes along the lines that pokey addicts are more likely to put NCLT and other good coins into the machines. I'm not a regular pokey player (actually haven't touched a pokey since the odd flutter after a round of golf 6 years ago) so not sure if this would work on todays pokies.



That's a shame. I do love your bird coins. Not sure if you know but NZ as discovered by the Maoris was a chunk of evolutionary history that is now partly gone. When most of the dinosaurs went extinct there was a brief time the feathered dinosuars (now called birds) evolved and dominated the fauna around the world. The avian domination of the globe would end with the evolution of mammals except in NZ where mammals never evolved. This was still the state of play when the Maoris arrived. Unfortunately the actions of Maoris and subsequent white settlers mostly destroyed the unique fauna of NZ. Still, I'm surprised that the Moa doesn't appear as a commemorative circulating coin. Also curious why the Waitangi crown was issued in 1935 and not 1940.

Well you'd have to be happy with that outcome David!

Noodle #5 $1 x 500

Commemoratives = 30%

1986 (International Year of Peace) 5
1988 (Australian Bicentenary) 2
1993 (Landcare Australia) 9
1996 (100th Anniversary of the Death of Sir Henry Parkes) 12
1997 (100th Anniversary of Charles Kingsford Smith) 10
1999 (International Year of Older Persons) 11
2001 (100th Anniversary of Federation) 14
2001 (International Year of Volunteers) 3
2002 (Year of the Outback) 15
2003 (100th Anniversary of Women's Suffrage) 3
2005 (60th Anniversary of World War II - Peace) 17
2007 (APEC Australia) 13
2008 (Centenary of Scouting) 10
2009 (Centenary of Pensions) 4
2010 (100th Anniversary of Girl Guides) 3
2011 (Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting) 5
2014 (100 Years of ANZAC) 9
2015 (100 Years of ANZAC) 3
2016 (100 Years of ANZAC) 2
2017 (100 Years of ANZAC) 1
2018 (100 Years of ANZAC) 2

Highlights = 2019 (IRB) [A] x1, 2019 (IRB) [U] x2, Coin Hunt letters H and S AND 9 shiny donation dollars (I did post a pic in another thread).

heard a few mules $1 dollar, were found in pokies/RSL clubs.

also heard that bank tellers (AUS), especially the more numismatically inclined would replace the star notes that they found and replace them with a note from their pocket. just rumours though I have no evidence that this is true.

David, sorry I forgot your questions there in the text. I was too busy getting into the coin noodling. Until 2006 I would regularly go through piles of coins trying to get the best of every date.

About Waitangi Crown, originally it was planned for 1933 when the rest came out, but design delays held it up 2 years.

Many think it was to celebrate the Treaty of Waitangi, in fact it was to celebrate the handing over of the Treaty Reserve (The ground at Waitangi where the Treaty House is located) to the nation by the then Governor General, Lord and Lady Bledisloe in 1934, it was announced in 1933.

Anyway it was handed over in 1934 to the nation and made a National reserve, except the local Maori tribe took it over in the 1990s and turned it into a fun park type attraction and charge $15 to get in (Free for local Maoris and less for other Maoris like me - I think it sucks, should be free for all Kiwis).

The treaty house itself is a pre fabricated cottage from England that was bought over by the English resident at the time James Busby in 1834. It has been restored after an archaeological excavation in 1998 and you can go through it with restored rooms (A wee bit like original government house in Parramatta).

In addition is the grounds with the flag pole in which the Union Jack was hoisted (Not the one cut down by Hone Heke (That is across the channel in Russell), and a large carved Canoe from 1990, the carved meeting house with carvings from every tribe in NZ built in 1940 and also you have landscaped grounds and a series of trees that were planted by every governor general since 1934.

Thanks Princetane - Yes, I assumed the Treaty of Waitangi! Thanks for the information.