Noodling? I hear you ask - I thought you indulged in noodles on a frequent basis as it was. Ah yes dear reader, you are correct. Possibly more often than I should, especially here when a noodle factory is close by and we get to eat the awesome fresh product each week!
Noodling, however, has nothing to do with the slurpy goodness of a bowl of Hakka mee, or chee cheong fan, or pork noodle, or wantan mee, or loh shi fan, or laksa, or char kuey tau. Yes, I could go on and on...
Noodling is the activity where one grabs a heap of in-circulation coins and looks through them, in the hope of finding some that are worth more than face value. They could be rare coins, low mintage coins, error coins, coins that were never meant for circulation, the list is quite extensive. The beauty is that say one takes $100 in $1 coins from the bank, and finds 5 worth keeping. Well, the other $95 just goes straight back to the bank, and the only money "spent" is on coins worth more than their face value. Learning that takes some time, but it's worth it - some of these coins are worth thousands of dollars, which is simply amazing. I have been watching this activity, largely on YouTube channel PJ's Coin Capers, for some time now, and have been itching to try. So during the past week, try it is exactly what I did!
Initially, I grabbed a heap of $1 coins, and fingered my way through them. My first go was a little overwhelming as I ended up keeping a heap of coins - all the non-standard ones I found. Of course not all of those are low mintage, so on some further investigation, many could be returned to circulation, and thusly were. I soon ended up at my mum's and ventured to the bank to get a swag of other denominations to add to the experience.
~$1,200 of noodling, plus a couple of finds in change later, and wow! That added up really quickly! The table below is the result of this first round.
These photos are fucked. I have tried a heap of times to get this picture in a better quality, but to no avail. I guess it's not designed for big tables, although I am positive I have done this before for a punting entry. Anyway, in future I will likely only post summary data, plus I want to get this done, so I'll leave it for now., The point is, according to my research, the roughly $64 of coins I put aside seem to be worth over $150 on eBay, assuming one can find a buyer - all prices came from the sold in last 30 days page, so you'd have to be optimistic they would sell. The only caveat is that I am no expert on rating condition, but I did try to rate my coins conservatively.
Anyway, so ends round 1. I am impressed, and hooked. This was a lot of fun and I loved it! More to come for sure.
Note to self: check out Junior Minties when the time is right....
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