Australian and other foreign coins circulating in New Zealand could be a problem

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On a recent trip the Royal Canadian Mint in Winnipeg for the Spring Coin
show, I was able to see the new New Zealand coins up close. We were taken on
an inside tour of the production area as well as the plating and blanking
areas. On the Production floor we got to see the NZ50c being made as well as
the NZ20c. The size seems more appropriate. The copper plated NZ10c was in
bags waiting to be rolled. The 50c coins were being rolled into NZ$10 rolls
(a very short roll) a $20 roll would be about the size of a roll of Canadian
or US 25c.

It was fun to see up close once again, but our tour guide was the Director
of the Winnipeg Mint, was careful to avoid the production of the new mint
mark Canadian coins which are due to be released in July as well as a tenth
anniversary bimetal $2 circulation piece.

Happy Collecting,
Kyle


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It is funny that they mention it as a problem that coins from other
countries circulate in NZ. I see it as a problem that now they won't.

A while back I was trading coins with a guy from Spain, face to face
rather than over the internet. He was very excited to see that I had a
5c from the Cook Islands to trade, because he didn't have any coins
from the Cooks. The look on his face when I told him I got it in
change was priceless.

I got my start collecting the Aussie, Fijian, Cook Islands, Solomons
etc coins which just showed up in circulation. It makes me sad to know
that now they won't (or will only very rarely).

Pat Clay
http://www.coincat.com The online coin catalog

[Default] On 2 Jun 2006 15:09:24 -0700, "Pat" climbed
to the top of the minaret and sang out:

It is funny that they mention it as a problem that coins from other
countries circulate in NZ. I see it as a problem that now they won't.

A while back I was trading coins with a guy from Spain, face to face
rather than over the internet. He was very excited to see that I had a
5c from the Cook Islands to trade, because he didn't have any coins
from the Cooks. The look on his face when I told him I got it in
change was priceless.

I got my start collecting the Aussie, Fijian, Cook Islands, Solomons
etc coins which just showed up in circulation. It makes me sad to know
that now they won't (or will only very rarely).

Pat Clay
http://www.coincat.com The online coin catalog

Well, back in the 60s and 70s, Canadian coins were very common in
circulation here in the US, and although they still pop up sometimes,
sometime in the late 70s, most stores started refusing them so now
they only come up rarely, which ****es me off to no end, as if they
were still as common as they used to be, I'd have a much more complete
collection of Canadian coins.

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Of all the cheek!

We Aussies have been putting up with Kiwi coins mixed in with our for years.
At roughly 84% the value of $AUD, we have been dudded every time we accept
these sheep-shagging shekels from across the Tasman. OTOH, any Kiwi that
gets an Aussie coin in change has copped a windfall!

--
Jeff R.
(at we have vowels that work)

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WheatPenny wrote:
[Default] On 2 Jun 2006 15:09:24 -0700, "Pat" climbed
to the top of the minaret and sang out:

It is funny that they mention it as a problem that coins from other
countries circulate in NZ. I see it as a problem that now they won't.

A while back I was trading coins with a guy from Spain, face to face
rather than over the internet. He was very excited to see that I had a
5c from the Cook Islands to trade, because he didn't have any coins
from the Cooks. The look on his face when I told him I got it in
change was priceless.

I got my start collecting the Aussie, Fijian, Cook Islands, Solomons
etc coins which just showed up in circulation. It makes me sad to know
that now they won't (or will only very rarely).

Pat Clay
http://www.coincat.com The online coin catalog

Well, back in the 60s and 70s, Canadian coins were very common in
circulation here in the US, and although they still pop up sometimes,
sometime in the late 70s, most stores started refusing them so now
they only come up rarely, which ****es me off to no end, as if they
were still as common as they used to be, I'd have a much more complete
collection of Canadian coins.



I get at least one Canadian coin in circulation each week here in
Michigan, they are
probably not as common in states that don't border Canada.

The value of the Canadian dollar is at this moment quite close to the
US dollar.

I have never had a merchant refuse to accept a Canadian coin but they
never seem
to work in vending machines.


Occasionally in the UK a coin from the Isle Of Man or one of the Channel
Islands will be found in circulation, some will be kept for curiosity value
but most are probably spent as soon as possible. Billy

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Of all the cheek!

We Aussies have been putting up with Kiwi coins mixed in with our for
years.
At roughly 84% the value of $AUD, we have been dudded every time we accept
these sheep-shagging shekels from across the Tasman. OTOH, any Kiwi that
gets an Aussie coin in change has copped a windfall!

--
Jeff R.
(at we have vowels that work)



A bit of kettle-pot there with "sheep-shagging". :-) Billy

Jeff.

You could keep those Kiwi coins as souvenir of the country you would
like yours to be like!

When I was a kid I thought I was onto a good thing spending hours
amassing a pile of Aussie coins worth 20% or so more than face value,
and then I found the banks wouldn't exchange them, and it is a long
walk across that bridge ;-)

Pat Clay
http://www.coincat.com The online coin catalog

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Of all the cheek!

We Aussies have been putting up with Kiwi coins mixed in with our for
years.
At roughly 84% the value of $AUD, we have been dudded every time we
accept
these sheep-shagging shekels from across the Tasman. OTOH, any Kiwi
that
gets an Aussie coin in change has copped a windfall!

--
Jeff R.
(at we have vowels that work)



A bit of kettle-pot there with "sheep-shagging". :-) Billy


Hmmmm....

(slight pause whilst I troll through my "Jokes-International" archive)

Ah yes! One of my favourites:

Q: How can you tell when a 747 full of UK immigrants has arrived at Sydney
airport?
A: After the pilots switch off the engines, the whining doesn't stop.

:-)

--
Jeff R.
(would've chosen a Scottish joke, but couldn't lift the archive off the
shelf - too heavy!)

In article "note.boy" writes:
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Occasionally in the UK a coin from the Isle Of Man or one of the Channel
Islands will be found in circulation, some will be kept for curiosity value
but most are probably spent as soon as possible. Billy

But they have the same value. It was quite different when the Irish punt
diverged from the UK pound. Coins had still the same size, but while in
Ireland British coinage was accepted, this was not true the other wa
around.
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