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Valued Member
Australia
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I am a school teacher and at my school we have like a "roll-call" but we do things for other people - garden, make things for elderly residents at local nursing home, fundraise for this or that. - - Anyways, being in a small school in an extremely disadvantaged community the kids freeze when you suggest fundraising activities- BUT! Seen as people buy sets of 5c pieces on ebay, our fundraising activity for this term is 'noodling 5c pieces'! We started today, only had 10 mins to do it but we found a full set (1972 came out early) - and it was 1991 we needed to complete the sets! ... Hopefully I have a group of Year 9 kids ready to enter the world of numismatics ;)
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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Good onya Tim,i always try to encourage any youngster that show interest in coins as they will be the future of the hobby.  |
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
4411 Posts |
This is a good idea for something different.
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Formerly nancyc
Australia
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Hey, well done! What a great idea to get the kids involved and at the same time help someone else, and a side benefit could be some new collectors. Excellent!  Who knows, they may even get their parents involved too.  life is a mystery to be lived not a problem to be solved
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Valued Member
Australia
312 Posts |
Great job done there, we need encourage new generation to like coin, I will teach my son when he is old enough
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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
318 Posts |
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
1005 Posts |
For lots of reasons that is a nice idea!
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Valued Member
Australia
465 Posts |
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
318 Posts |
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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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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Posted 02/03/2012 01:13 am
