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Bedrock of the Community
Australia
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Interesting map coin, the design on the coin looks almost mechanical.
As most Australians know Walter Burley Griffin designed the town layout that Canberra has.
He also designed incinerators!
For the benefit of American friends here in the CCF, he was an American landscape architect.
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01/31/2013 09:26 am
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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That's probably one of the nicest looking decimal circulating commemorative coins in Australia (if not the World) that I've seen. Another nice one is the 2001 Queensland 20 cent piece.
But funny that this guy...makes incinerators (to melt the planchet), puts the map on the planchet & then they burn the map in the incinerator. That's the life cycle...or a cycle of life?
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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Edited by Basil
01/31/2013 5:20 pm
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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Turned into a restaurant.! I guess they specialize in "Junk Food".  |
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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Pillar of the Community
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Ha...,amongst the locals when it first opened the joke was that the specialty of the house was 'Ratatouille',30 years before the Movie.If you saw the size & number of rats that inhabited the incinerator & tip you would know why the locals never ate there.
...and,as a kid I found a tin of pennies at the tip,so we're back(nearly)on track.
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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Great story Basil- would make an interesting Pizza Oven.! But I digress.!
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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They will be doing another coin swap on the 6th of February for those likely (or able) to be in Canberra.
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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... the "Centenary of Canberra" coin looks good  . However, looking at the picture provided by CoinStew gave me a funny "first impression"  . Looked to me like the inside of a machine - for example a watch - that is somewhat broken  Squire |
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New Member
Australia
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hi when the coin be circulation  |
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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According to a recent comment by RAM on Facebook, "through your change from March 2013".
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Bedrock of the Community
Australia
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MOR: Burley Griffin,
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WHIRLEY Griffin?
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