Coin Hunting

Not surprisingly we dont visit coin shops at all Silver, but that may change in the near future.

Kato is doing homework and I dare say she will be on checking out your work soon.

Thanks for the advice and link.

That Mr Squiggle $1 coin was only available in the carded set.Not meant for circulation.Found one myself only a couple of weeks ago.

Eldorado said:

That Mr Squiggle $1 coin was only available in the carded set.Not meant for circulation.Found one myself only a couple of weeks ago.

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So we're both in extra good luck time then Eldorado ..... I'm feeling lucky

This is a good 20c utube video by PJ. :Y:
Shows what to look for really well
[video=480,360]https://youtu.be/oQ5pO6ZNSWk[/video]

silver said:

Eldorado said:

That Mr Squiggle $1 coin was only available in the carded set.Not meant for circulation.Found one myself only a couple of weeks ago.

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So we're both in extra good luck time then Eldorado ..... I'm feeling lucky

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I was at work and looked into a tub of $1000 of $1 coins and it was staring back at me.Sometimes you can be lucky.Let me know if you want me to keep an eye out for any coins Silver.

Eldorado said:

silver said:

Eldorado said:

That Mr Squiggle $1 coin was only available in the carded set.Not meant for circulation.Found one myself only a couple of weeks ago.

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So we're both in extra good luck time then Eldorado ..... I'm feeling lucky

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I was at work and looked into a tub of $1000 of $1 coins and it was staring back at me.Sometimes you can be lucky.Let me know if you want me to keep an eye out for any coins Silver.

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Will do Eldorado :Y: ... pointed out to a cashier the other day that the note I was spending was numbered 1-8 (not totally in order though).... he recons he'll be busy looking through all the notes now lol I'm still going to be looking for those 2016 $1.00 50th aniversary coins

Had a quick hunt through $40 today
1 $1.00 roll
1 50c roll
1 20c roll
3 5c rolls
Nothing in the $1.00 at all.
Just the one 50c
2001 Tasmania

And a 2018 20c

couplea 2018 5c's

And a few other 5c I thought I'd like to keep

even kept this scungy looking 1966

Something going on there in the middle.... not sure if I'm seeing hair and crown there or not

Went out with the kids and this appeared in my change from a $20 note layful:





My face coin jar

How lucky is that without even trying....
Nice jar full there too.

Silver , I have no idea of values or why or what.

Kato will be studying your lists and going thru my jar carefully, I will get her to save anything worthwhile, a school holiday project for her.

Greenhornet, get Kato to subscribe to this fella and watch everyone of his videos(he has around 50 videos) and take running notes.... he thinks well and has a very astute and aware mind.... and is straight foreward and easy to understand.
[video=480,360]https://youtu.be/QggyGj-W5Nc[/video]

Went through this old jar of 20c
1966-2014

2008 wave gap



2001 Don Bradman

1999 Malaysian coin

5 1981 3&1/2 claws

4 NZ coins

And this 1966.... ya's can let me know what ya recon about it

It's nice to be able to find something amidst what's been just sitting around for ages...... almost like those old drawer finds they talk sbout.

I'll see if I get the chance to do a $2,00 hunt and make a board up later in this week... that'll be all of them then. I have them all in the one album on my phone so that I can easily flick between them if the coins are just in a pile of different ones. I also have a 4-5 inch magnifying glass on a poseable shaft and a magnifying loupe to assist in the close scrutiny of the smaller coins and smaller details of the larger coins like the double bars behind the emu head on those few years that could possibly have them.
Those boards would only be the start of a journey.... as far as I'm prepared to delve in to it all (probably still just a superficial level lol)
But I'm realising that if I'm a bit cash strapped it's going to be easier to do a five cent hunt and keep twenty coins than it would be to do a $2.00 coin hunt and keep twenty coins. For anyone starting out and understanding it all at a young age it would be a great jouney to be on.... I coukd only imagine the view on that road taken (treasure galore`).
And.... 5c,10c, $1 & $2 all fit in these tubes from the cheap shop... bit of a nib on the bottom that will dig into the bottom coin (beware) and I'm not sure if that cheap plastic will affect the coins at all... but it will do until I can afford to buy the propper ones.

Another jar of coins I looked through

A bag of 2c coins there too

So....
2001 50c Queensland

Don't know what's going on with this 2006 20c

3 10c that were worth keeping separate

And there was one 1966 2c worth keeping separate too.
so here is another 2c to show where the SD is situated

And here is the other side of my 1966 2c

No SD at all

silver said:

Don't know what's going on with this 2006 20c
https://www.prospectingaustralia.co...1567315176_screenshot_2019-09-01-14-58-39.jpg

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Looks like the Queen had a bad case of acne at the time if you ask me layful:

Deepseeker said:

silver said:

Don't know what's going on with this 2006 20c
https://www.prospectingaustralia.co...1567315176_screenshot_2019-09-01-14-58-39.jpg

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Looks like the Queen had a bad case of acne at the time if you ask me layful:

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:lol: It made me think that coin was fake! Coins don't usually deteriorate that way. What is going on with that one, silver?!

And if only parents got their kids into collecting coins like this, rather than plastic bits of crap from supermarkets. Their kids would thank them in future, rather than curse them for filling the environment with more useless bits of plastic crap, washing into our waterways and littering beaches, where they've already been sighted.

Cheers,
Megsy

I think they call it a lamination error fellas
when the planchet/blank has errors in it before the coin is even struck
face

cheek

hair

ET in ELIZABETH

platypus head

platypus snout

Awesome photos too Silver. Great detail :Y:

Used the loupe with the phone together, with the phone light on too Deepseeker. erfect:

$2 hunt
the board

2011.... I'll hold it until I find something nicer I recon

2012 gold poppy

a nice looking 2014

and a nice 2015

and a gold coast 2018