Armaguard

[Coins from Vending]

The banks know exactly what day and time that the coin and cash deliveries are made, they just wont tell anyone.

[Fulvio]

The banks know exactly what day and time that the coin and cash deliveries are made, they just wont tell anyone.

True on both counts, but what we really want to know is what's in the delivery, and that they don't know. Most deliveries are recycled coin only, except before xmas and easter.

[kanjoe07]

The banks know exactly what day and time that the coin and cash deliveries are made, they just wont tell anyone.

True on both counts, but what we really want to know is what's in the delivery, and that they don't know. Most deliveries are recycled coin only, except before xmas and easter.

My local Westpac lets me know. Mainly due to getting so much change for my business so often that I've built a good relationship with the staff over the last 7 years. But I guess your best bet is to try different branches within the same Armaguard route, if that's determinable that is...

[Fulvio]

I get the feeling Armaguard are on a sales drive.. NAB, WBC and CBA in Mt Waverley have all switched to them recently (didn't ask ANZ, I'm not a customer). Maybe the security mobs are dividing up territories to save fuel or something?

[b_j_w_79]

I tend to be able get security bags (sometimes roll) of some of the new coins from various banks in my area. But (big but) not normally of the coins that I really want.

For example. I have 2010 and 2012 10c security bags but no 2011. I normally have trouble getting some of the commerative coins. I think many of them keep them for themselves!

[ausjack]

I've been thinkin the same thing here about comm's as they're gettin harder and harder to find and when I do find them they're pretty crappy

[JeffH]

Armaguard has been delivering rolls in coinsafe bags here for some time. But just recently they have returned to loose coins in cloth sacks. I don't know why.

Incidentally, the bag pictured had a most unusual distribution of coins;
•321 commemoratives (64%). Usual amount is 35% to 40%.
•Included 140 1993 Landcare and 42 2001 Volunteers. That is many more than usual for a $500 bag
•Only 6 Centenary of Federation and 13 Outback. Many less than usual
At first, as I started going through them, I thought maybe I had struck another noodler's rejects. However no self respecting noodler would reject 8 aUNC (or better) commemoratives, a rabbit ears and a 2001 Volunteers rim cud. Strange?

[markn]

Armaguard has been delivering rolls in coinsafe bags here for some time. But just recently they have returned to loose coins in cloth sacks. I don't know why.

Incidentally, the bag pictured had a most unusual distribution of coins;
•321 commemoratives (64%). Usual amount is 35% to 40%.
•Included 140 1993 Landcare and 42 2001 Volunteers. That is many more than usual for a $500 bag
•Only 6 Centenary of Federation and 13 Outback. Many less than usual
At first, as I started going through them, I thought maybe I had struck another noodler's rejects. However no self respecting noodler would reject 8 aUNC (or better) commemoratives, a rabbit ears and a 2001 Volunteers rim cud. Strange?

Someones money box deposited at the bank?

[JeffH]

That's a plausible theory. Could also explain why most of the better condition coins are earlier years (when the RAM handling of new coins was kinder than it has been in recent years).

[Fulvio]

loose coins in cloth sacks.

Loose?

That's not an Armaguard sack. Its a bank sack going TO Armaguard.

So what you have there is most likely a deceased collector's stash, cashed in by his family. Rush back and grab as many more sacks as you can, before they're picked up.