It's Amazing What a News Story Can Do

[markn]

If you're in Victoria you might have noticed a news story about valuable coins you can find in your change on Channel 9 last Monday.  Apparently it was very short and the filler at the end of the weather.  Still, we saw a decent bump in traffic on the Blog from visitors from Victoria.  Below is a graph comparing the traffic from Victoria on the site for the last 30 odd days and the 30 days preceding that. The blue line is the current 30 day period.  Visitors from Victoria jumped from about 175 a day to 1100.  Just from one crummy little news story.



Pph edit to include the actual topic of the news story.

[JeffH]

So, what was the story?

[purplepennyhunter]

Didn't see it and cant find it online. My Mum lives in Vic and mentioned it to me so i have her account of it from a non-collector.

The gist was valuable coins in change and a mention of 1930 penny. Short filler story (post?) finance pre weather.  I'm keen to know exactly too and where they got the info from. The NAV pointed me to it, maybe Splock can chime in here.

[Unicorn]

What an incredible hump!

[stevo1962]

Looks like it pays to advertise on Television.Was there any spiike when Andrew Crellin was
talking coins on the radio?

[markn]

Looks like it pays to advertise on Television.Was there any spiike when Andrew Crellin was
talking coins on the radio?

Nope.

[acrellin]

In my defence, that show was on at 10pm on a Friday night!

[stevo1962]

In my defence, that show was on at 10pm on a Friday night!

No disrespect intended Andrew just thought it would be interesting to know

[Splock]

Hey I was part of that crummy little news story! ;-) Big thanks to Goldy for contributing items to show, nothing like a Mule hunt to get the public excited. Glad it got people interested in coins though as that was the main idea.

[Australian coin]

I didn't see it

[Goldseeker]

I watched the news on the Friday and Saturday and it wasn't shown.

Did anyone of the forum see it at all?