New Zealand demonitized 50 cent pieces

[Triggersmob]

Not sure how easy each type is to find in the wild. Maybe Tane can enlighten us. He helped me with both types.

[Mister T]

I remember reading someone had a write-up on their stats from circulation, though I can't remember where.

[Tanecoins]

Yes there are 2 types of 2014 20 cent coin. This was due to a change in design detail in the year. Wide date and narrow date.

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The wide date has less detail on the carving on the tails side, and is considered earlier due its similarity with 2006/8 coins (No 20c were issued between 2009/13) and the narrow date version shows a much more detailed carving and is similar to later coins (2015, 2019, 2020, 2022).

The Wide date is 5 times more scarce than the narrow date. But it has no special value beyond a curiosity as over 23 million were minted and thus around 4 million are the wide date coin.

But good on her for picking it up - the error was discovered in 2016 (Which was likely when the 2014 dated coins were released!).

[Triggersmob]

Thanks for the extra info Tane.

[WavyTwenty]

Ah the memories.

Being a Kiwi I grew up in NZ and remember these coins fondly.  And yes, you could buy a lot in the 80's with 50 cents.  I remember that we still had quarter cent lollies back then, although they tasted not the best.  The half cent lollies were much nicer and the full cent lollies were pretty supreme.

My grandma used to give me dollar bills for my birthday because she knew that I liked them.  Of course, it never occurred to me to start collecting until I was 33 and living in Australia so my chance to be a collector over there was long gone.

i was the one who used to pull the metal strip out of the notes just for fun.  Looking back at it that was not a nice thing to do.

[Tanecoins]

Must have been the very early 80s as I can only remember 1 cent lollies then and they were always the basic ones like like smokers and the tiny mints.

About 1985 I remember 1 cent got the smokers (Coloured sugar pill lollies), then 2 cents got you a boiled lolly, a winegum, a sweet heart(gummy), a pebble (Small M and M style chocolate), a jaffa, snifter or a sweet cent (A large sherbet lollie in the shape of a coin from 1c to 50c). 3 cents was the big leagues, you got a jellybean, a gummy leaf, jersey caramel or a milk bottle. 5 cents was the super lollies like a jetplane, a jellatellaphone, pineapple lump, etc. 10c or 15c got stuff like K bars, sante bars, a small pack of PK or Juicy Fruit gum and the big bars like Chrunchy, pinkie, caramello and sadly some horrible Australian thing called a Violet Crumble cost about 50c. By 1989 most of the bars were a dollar, and most lollies were 5cents or 2 for 5 cents as the 1c and 2c were demonitised that year.

All I remember through the 80s, was the 20 cent mixture getting smaller and smaller, until it was like 5 or 6 lollies, so we all switched to the 50 cent mixture. I watched popsicles go from like 10c in 1982 to like 50c by 1992.

Inflation was a real nuisance in the 80s, calmed down in the 90s.

[Triggersmob]

My grandma used to give me dollar bills for my birthday 

I feel ripped off now, all I got was sixpence. That was in the 1960s though.

[Tanecoins]

Sixpence was pretty miserly by 60s, standards. Even I got a $2 regularly in the 80s and I remember my Grandad and Aunty were giving me cards with $5 and $10 notes in them by 1987/88. And our family was poor in the 80s, Mum and Dad got about $250 a week in wages.

My Mum told me her grandparents gave her a florin in the 60s.

[Triggersmob]

Sixpence went a long way in the 1960s though. It could buy you a serve of chips at the fish and chip shop. That would cost you about 4 pounds in the UK now.

[Tanecoins]

Well okay then, you were lucky, my Mum said it was a bob for fish or chips when they switched to decimal in 1967 (She was born in 1954) and then she got annoyed when 10 cents became 12 cents then 15 cents and by 1970, the extortionate price of 20cents!

Of course being born in 1976, I can't remember either costing less around 70 cents and that was 1984ish. Now same as you guys, you can get chips at $3 or 4 a scoop in cheap places, but fish is pricey and starts at $5 plus for shark or warehou.

[Triggersmob]

That was the price in the UK. May have been different in NZ. I remember you could get bag of lollies in early 70s for 5c.
Those times are long gone.

[gweidion]

My mum was born in 1937 (died nearly three years ago). She would tell me that if she was lucky enough to get sixpence she could go to the movies and get a drink and an ice cream for that.
How far we've fallen.

[Tanecoins]

I agree, I went to see Michael recently and they had a deal a drink (Softdrink concentrate), some popcorn (That costs like 20c to make) and it was like a "Bargain" at $19.95 and add a chocolate bomb (An icecream with a chocolate cover on the ice cream underneath in a cone) for only $7. Plus the $20 you pay for the movie. Thats almost $50, and compare that to 6d in 1937, 6d = 5c and maybe the buying power was $2 or $3 in todays money, that is a 1000x increase in price.

Movies and movie food are so expensive, there was no size of popcorn under $11. That is insanity and microphone profanity (A line stolen from some late 80s rap song I used to listen to).

[Triggersmob]

That might be why I haven't been to a movie for maybe 25 years, and that was only to take my son.
Before that it was to see Grease.

[Tanecoins]

Grease is an awesome movie, one of my favourites!