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Turkey
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The day before, I went to a coffee house to have a coffee (obvious reason:)) They have those small tip boxes that Starbucks intoduced to Turkey sometime before, and now every single coffee house has them. I saw an unusual coin sitting there and asked the cashier if I may see it. It is an Australian 1 $ coin, moderately circulated, and from the year 2005. I kept it, paid two Turkey liras for the tip box to make them happy. Now accidentally I come across someone finding 2005 1$'s on the forum and wondering if they're a low mintage date or so. It's already inside my Australian coins folder, so low or not, I'll keep it. :)
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Australia
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Off the top of my head it is the lowest mintage mob of roos $1.
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 Turkey
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That's nice for me then, I checked it again, it's a 2005 1$ Australia. Too bad I kept it in my pocket with some other coins for a couple of days, it had some lovely mint lustre when I got it, but now it turned duller. Had no idea.:( It's still a very lovely find, considering how far that little fella traveled from home.
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Formerly nancyc
Australia
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Mintage for 2005 $1 Mob of Roos is 5.8m. Originally the only 2005 $1 for circulation were going to be the WWII issue, but there was a mix up of dies at the mint, and about 1m or so were minted using 2005 obverses instead of 2006, and I think some/all must have already gone into circulation before it was noticed.  To avoid the issuance of such a low number of 'mule' coins, the RAM minted another 5m the same. Easy solution to what could have been an embarrassing problem.  Mintage of 2005 WWII $1 is 31.6. life is a mystery to be lived not a problem to be solved
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02/03/2012 5:00 pm
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Turkey
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Wow thanks for the info Nancy. It's weird to find a dollar coin so far from Australia. Regardless te condition, I'll put it to my folder. Whoops, it's already there with his buddies from down under :)
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Australia
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Its not that wierd, we have a large Turkish derived population here in Australia, and many Australians also visit Turkey every year.
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Australia
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I think it is quite a find. I have never found turkish coins here. I wonder if the Aussie $1 closely resembles and turkish coins?
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Valued Member
United States
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I used to travel around the world, and would frequently "seed" semi-unusual US coins like the clad half. Always got a big smile (and I'm sure a trade-out)! |
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Turkey
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Actually not, the Aussie $1 doesn't look like any of the coins we use in Turkey, or have used in te past. It looks slightly like a Euro 50 cent, but not that much either. Since we don't use Euro in Turkey, it's stilla find. I don't find much foreign coins here in circulation, I have found a 1euro a while back, it looks like our old 50 Kurus, back in 2005. I also found an Egypt 1 pound on the ground at the local food market here, which it not a touristic place' at all. The Aussie $1 and a rare year, is very rewarding for me.:)
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Australia
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Aluminium bronze coins do tend to darken or lose lustre rather quickly. And your find should soon have some friends. Jeff PS. In doing this post I finally worked out how to get Australian English to load in Firefox. My achievement for today.  Edited by Jeff
02/05/2012 11:55 pm
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Turkey
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A few weeks ago I ve found a 500 South Korean Won on my way to show my coins to my friend! that was great. And I oftenly find SFR Yugoslavia coins around. Thats because the first generation Yugoslavian Immigrants have settled there I guess. And I ve found 10 El Salvador Centavos at the basement of my friends house. His big brother was in the navy. Haha I wish I ve found something rare lol.
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