And that format is look what I've found! Not via video, but via humble blog post. After all that noodling, here are my finds, or keepers as we like to call them:
This photo shows the total of my keepers for the week. I suspect I am not as critical of what makes a keeper compared to more experienced noodlers, but as you'll see, specific current circumstance, particularly relating to the new effigy, is making a difference right now. But still, it's a nice big bunch of interesting coins!
This next photo shows my 20c keepers. I don't noodle a lot of 20c as there's not a whole lot to find when compared to other denominations, but these were good. Particularly the Canberra and Tasmania coins, neither of which I had seen before.
This photo shows the foreign coins I found for the week. All Kiwi, and all went in the jar with the rest. If any of the kids show an interest when they get older they can have the lot. I could possibly throw these back in circulation, but I'll keep them as foreign coins for now.
Next are my 50c keepers. We have a couple of Mabo's, a couple of state coins, all low mintages, and a robe cud error coin. I now have 6 of those and am wondering just how rare they are. Still, they are not costing me much to hang onto for now so I will keep them. Once I get to selling, I'll list them and if no good, back in the sack they go. That's the beauty of this hobby.
In the $1 section we had a nice 2015 ANZAC, a couple of 2001 Volunteers, which I am holding for now but will reassess when it comes time to sell. Lastly a few of the coin hunt coins. I am noting that these are wearing REALLY fast, so good ones will be hard to find in circulation going forward.
Here are the coins that make up most of this week's haul - the new Jody Clarke effigy coins. All are very low mintage at this stage, so time will tell just how many the mint mint in the second half of the financial year. The beauty of this hobby is that if they do mint a heap and these don't end up being worth any more than FV, I can just send them back to the bank, easy. I suspect some will go that way, but hopefully at least one or two won't. 5c for example, has 17 million in 2019 minted on the old effigy, so I hope they don't need to mint many more of the new one. Well already minted, as we're talking 2019 here.
Ok so the next one includes some that I have already changed my mind on - I had originally set my $2 mintage limit at 5 million, with a gold poppy exception (5.9M). However I have since changed that back down to 4 million, which knocks out the 1993. So apart from the coloured coins and Invictus, that only leaves the 2011, 2016 changeover and 2019 elder coins as the ones to keep. The middle coins are those 2019 ones, only 500k in the first half of the year. With the new effigy in the second half, with any luck there won't be too many more.
Right, not sure of the logic in this next photo as it's quite a mix! At the top is a low mintage 5c changeover coin, always good to find. Next to it is a cracker - the very low mintage 2011 10c coin and in almost uncirculated condition! The 2000 $1 coin is now no longer a keeper - I guess I was probably subconsciously channeling the mule by keeping these before! Next row are old effigy 2018 10c, fairly low mintage, and lastly $1 Jody's, so far a low mintage too.
So overall, a really nice noodle result. Yes a lot of them were JC effigy's and may not end up being keepers, but still I found a good number of excellent coins and had a whole lot of fun in the process.
Coin plan this week:
This past week was really fun and productive, so I am going to have another decent crack this week. But I need to be careful not to overload the same banks week in week out, just so they hopefully don't see me as a drag.
So, as last week I got coins from both Cohuna banks as well as Echuca CBA, this week I will go elsewhere. So far I have been to Kerang, and I may even nip down to Rochester. I will also go to banks other than CBA in Echuca. Let's see how we go!
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