When we were out today husband was looking into a donation box and on top was a 2000 $1 HMAS Sydney 11 coin.
Asked the assistant and she said she didn't have a key otherwise she would of opened it and I would of put in extra for her effort.
I try not to look in those boxes as feel that you will see something that you can't get.
I have about 20 of the Sydney11 coins still in their cards :)
Guilty as charged Jen. I've looked at them before and have seen coins like 20c states looking me in the eye. I've never been able to ask though. Had it been a mule then I may have been able to work up the courage.
Same for me. There is one on the counter where my wife works and I often eye it off. Someone from the charity visits and empties it.
Even if I requested for the question to be asked I think my wife would not do that anyway.
I did get several bags of 20¢ coins once that one of the pubs banked. They had a charity evening which included a contest to make the highest pile of coins -coins from contestants' pockets but plenty available from the til to be exchanged from notes. To make it more interesting they allowed to coins to be wetted and supplied glasses of Coke® for the purpose.
When I got the bags the coins were still wet -bet Armaguard would have loved them in their rolling machine NOT. I rinsed and dried them but most were well destroyed from the acid.
I do that all the time, but never seen anything to drool over.
i used to go to a cafe regularity in my job southside and on the odd occasion swapped coins
one of the girls that works there also used to look through for the princess di 50c as well
I saw a $200 gold coin in one of the clear donation boxes at the airport a few years ago.
Ii bet they thought it was just a one or two dollar coin!