Coloured $2 Circulating Coin (CLOSED)

[enworb]

Great post Sulla you truly are a noodling champion...

[trout]

If you really want this coin, go out find it! Can't go out and find it? Well go and buy it!
 It's the principle of supply and demand!

Spoken like a true speculator :dash1:
Like accu said we DONT all live in major metropolitan centres and if we want a particular coin we DO have to buy the bloody thing and not get it from a bank or in our change :ok:
I admit that I am basically lazy and simply buy the coins I require, But there are Many collectors that have a very limited budget that want these coins that cannot afford the secondary market prices.
Blokes like Fulvio enjoy the hunt and are willing to share the catch with fellow collectors , Now that is a collectors attitude IMHO.
I hate to say it but I feel that you are only into numismatics for the money, If you can get past that you may be able to actually enjoy your coins for what they are :good:
Your Skiting about the few thousand of these that you have snared (albeit due to hard work) really hasn't endeared you to many of the members, Myself included.
Next time just keep it to yourself :ok:
Now you
Have a good day :angel:

[enworb]

Now, now trout there's no need to talk like that, especially not to noodling royalty. :tease:

[trout]

Now, now trout there's no need to talk like that, especially not to noodling royalty. :tease:

HeHeHe Whatever

[ausjack]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qjd8HobrTzA

[Fulvio]

Have you driven 50 kms only to find the cupboard is bare?

Erm.. yeah, often. I was comparing notes with Goldy the other day, and I reckon we've both noodled similar quantities, albeit with vastly different standards (and results.. luck does play a big part *sigh*).

The count of these damned $2's is up to 38 sacks now, though having finally struck paydirt, it may be time to switch to the other, long-ignored denominations. Those sacks have come from banks across the eastern suburbs, basically down the full length of the Monash freeway. That's a lot of miles, for not a lot of return, day after day after day. (Unless you count rolls of well-circulated 1993, 1998 and 2000 $2's of course...)

But as others have said, not everyone is able to do this. Whether through geography or health or domestic/work situations or even finances, there are plenty of collectors who can't while away the hours up to their necks in coins.

And that's where the sense of community should come in. When there's a show on, members have ALWAYS offered to pick up coins for each other, even when there were truckloads of money to be made by hoarding the spoils. And many of us have received gifts, often unsolicited and without warning, simply because someone knew we lusted after something we couldn't easily get for ourselves.

Now, I'm not going to judge. That never has a positive outcome. But I will say if I wanted to corner the market for Year of the Toilet dollars or whatever, I'd bluddy well keep my mouth shut and just do it. I certainly wouldn't post a running tally, but maybe that's just me. On the other hand, if I get lucky and want to share the experiences, then I'm also happy to share the spoils. Not so that someone can get rich off my efforts, but so that everyone has at least some chance. And THAT seems to be the prevailing view among most here, which makes this such a strong community.

Oh, and if you're one of the geographically-challenged who wants stuff to noodle, talk to me. I'm quite happy to help out in any way I can. Or talk to Goldy about his rejects.. there's GOLD in them thar sacks, trust me. :angel:

[trout]

Great post Fulvio :good:
You said what I wanted to say but with far more eloquence , I tend to speak from the heart and not the brain :dash1:
Thanks Mate :blush::good:

[ausjack]

:cray: yep, couldn't agree more as I wouldn't have stuff all if it wasn't for some fantastic people here..thank you all One of the thing I find the hardest to get is info..very hush hush with a lot of secret squirrel stuff, but I can understand why.

[Fulvio]

...and not the brain

Brain? Brain? What be this mysterious "Brain" of which ye speak? And where may I get one, pray tell? :angel:

[trout]

...and not the brain

Brain? Brain? What be this mysterious "Brain" of which ye speak? And where may I get one, pray tell? :angel:

When I was younger it was in my jocks, it is now seated firmly in my belly :laugh2:

[Fulvio]

..very hush hush with a lot of secret squirrel stuff, but I can understand why.

Huh? Never noticed that at all. Well, hardly.

AJ, ask and ye shall receive. Mi conocimiento es tu conocimiento.
Only things I won't share are things like where I keep my stash, my banking passwords, that kinda stuff.

When I was younger it was in my jocks, it is now seated firmly in my belly

Ah, much, this explains, young Jedi. :laugh2:

[ausjack]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lJtTfVHxDI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTYmuHatJ14
oh sorry, you said BRAIN not BANE.. my mistake

[trout]

You blokes are most defiantly :off_topic:
Thank the gods for that, it is about time this thread died a natural death :diablo::dance2:

[Fulvio]

Thank the gods for that, it is about time this thread died a natural death

Y'think? I thought that about ten or twenty pages ago.. :angel:

[ausjack]

yeah 53 pages about a two dollar coin..lucky ya love us ey