Welcome to Australian and New Zealand how far back can we go.
This is like the other thread except coins are from Australia and New Zealand only. We will start in 2020 on December 1st board time (It's December 1st here now, but I realise you Americans are stuck in the past
).
Of course there will be some ground rules to make it fun and fair for everyone.
1. It's harsh but coins only of New Zealand and Australia, I was thinking about Pacific Islands, but with the exception of Fiji and New Guinea, these only go back to the 1960s.
Plus many of these nations have issued a lot of
"Wallpaper coins" like Niue, Tuvalu, Cook Islands etc. These are undesirable issues like Elvis coins of Tuvalu, Steffi Graf and
Dr Who coins from Niue and Coke bottle cap coins from Fiji.
2. One year per day, Dec 1 is 2020, Dec 2 is 2019, Dec 10 is 2011, Dec 30 is 1991, Jan 31 is 1968 etc.
3. The priority of the coins to show are
a). Standard circulation coins, including circulating commemoratives, like Aussie coloured $2 coins
b). Trials, errors, mistrikes and patterns - especially predecimal coins.
c). NCLT coins of typical designs, eg Annual sets and annual proof coins
d). NCLT coins of all other descriptions, except gimmick stuff like 1 ton gold and LOTR coins of NZD
e). Bullion (I would prefer to see as few of these as possible)
f). Gimmick and wallpaper coin issues like the
Australian Map creatures set and the LOTR type gimmick rubbish put out by New Zealand.
g). Outright fantasies, fakes and made up private issues like Occusi Ambeno, Hutt River, Play money etc.
Basically we love to see A and B the most, C and D a lot, E less often and preferably not at all for F and G. Pretty much by the mid 1980s everything from D downwards should be gone and by 1950 nothing besides A and B.
4. Preferably no more than 5 photos per post. I will not limit the number of coins shown each year, but for the first few years (Say back to 2000) let us just show some consideration for those of you with lots of recent NCLT and Bullion coins - wait for a post of some more circulation type pieces before showing us every Lord of the Rings or silver Jellyfish coin you have!
If you do a big post and no one posts in the next 3 or 4 hours - feel free to do your next post.
You are also welcome to show many coins in one photo. As long as we can see each of them clearly, its all good.
Posted 12/01/2020 12:04 am
