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Pillar of the Community
United States
1116 Posts |
my mother has always wanted to go to australia but has never gone and I think it would be nice if she would get a coin directly from australia with a kangaroo or a koala bear on it can someone mail me one it doesn't have to have any value just pulled from circulation in australia thanks
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
655 Posts |
Didn't realise you had a coin thread too. Heaps of roos and other Australian animals on coins. The Koala seems to be an exception. Apart from the colour dollar and silver bullion coin it's almost absent. Then again I'm feeling a bit brain dead this morning. Anyone else think of any?
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Formerly nancyc
Australia
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The 2004 50¢ Student Design has a 'stylized' Koala on the Rev. I personally think it doesn't really resemble a Koala all that much, but I don't know the age of the student & I certainly couldn't have done any better....
life is a mystery to be lived not a problem to be solved
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
2830 Posts |
and the koala was on the $200 gold Koala, which was NCLT.
Do they still make them ?
Kangaroos feature on the old half-enny & penny, and the modern $1; and, as part of the larger Coat of Arms designs, on the florin and the 50-cent. Although, the 50-cent is the ugliest rendering of our coat of arms that I can imagine.
Peter
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Formerly nancyc
Australia
5385 Posts |
scott3270, PM me your address & I'll send you some Kangaroo coins.
life is a mystery to be lived not a problem to be solved
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
1116 Posts |
thanks alot nancy pm sent
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Formerly nancyc
Australia
5385 Posts |
I'll put in one of the 2004 50¢ as well, so you'll have Kangaroo & Koala coins turning up together.
life is a mystery to be lived not a problem to be solved
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1116 Posts |
again thanks alot she is going to love them
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
839 Posts |
scott it's Koala with no bear
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1116 Posts |
really spedward everybody I know says koala bear thats the only way I have heard it called outhere  but I'm sure australians know what there own animals are called now I can say to everyone its a koala not a koala bear |
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Formerly nancyc
Australia
5385 Posts |
Scott, Koala & Kangaroo coins posted today.
life is a mystery to be lived not a problem to be solved
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
839 Posts |
yeh scott nearly ALL Americans call them Koala bears, but really they're Koalas and aren't related to bears at all.
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
1040 Posts |
Yes Koalas aren't bears, they are marsupials, they have a pouch to carry their young. Now Drop Bears, on the other hand, dangerous little critters.....
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
839 Posts |
Yay one more person in America that has stopped calling them bears, a few million to go :(
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
1040 Posts |
If you are referring to me Spedward, hate to disappoint you, but I am an Aussie.
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
839 Posts |
nononoononnonoon latman was talking about topic STARTER
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Posted 05/09/2008 09:36 am
