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18-02-2016, 07:45 AM | #31 | ||
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Interesting article about $100 notes:
http://www.news.com.au/finance/econo...d51b394709b666 Also, check down the bottom... a Zimbabwe $100,000,000,000,000 dollar note, see how much it converts into AUD$!
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18-02-2016, 09:30 AM | #32 | |||
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She was super excited to get a 1966 20 cent piece in her change from the tuck shop the other day - unfortunately it wasn't one of the rare 1966 20s that has the wavy base on the 2 (worth about $500 these days), but she is keeping it anyway as she now has one of each coin from '66. |
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18-02-2016, 01:13 PM | #33 | |||
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No that would not be Politicly Correct nowadays to say, that will be 5 Abos 3 dingos and 25 wombats please. It may of truly been something like that way, before that fella Cook came hear ay. |
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18-02-2016, 08:33 PM | #34 | ||
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And of course the original 50cent was round and had silver in it.
They are worth more now just for the silver content. |
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26-02-2016, 08:47 PM | #35 | |||
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Hahaha, we can still do that but have to warn the kids first so they don't eat them. Early thrupenny was 92.5% silver, so you just know that your pudding will remain bacteria free for a while longer than it should! For Syndrome, etc, when decimal first introduced the round 50c was 50% silver, the rest were chaff - rumour had it that as the silver weight of the coin > its face value the Japanese bought an immense amount of them and melted them down for the arbitrage value. From memory as well, imperial coin UK 92.5% silver until 1918 (Britain bankrupt from WW1, devalues) Australia: 92.5% silver until 1945 (bankrupt from WW2, devalues) so you have this unique situation where, for example, a British and dominion half crown in the interwar period was accepted as same value, but the dominion coin was worth nearly twice as much. Any numismatists feel free to correct me 'Casey's Cartwheel' ftw
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