Australian One Cent Coin

1 Australian cent - with an exchange value of slightly less than 1 cent US - if spent in Australia.

Perhaps a few cents if included in a mixed lot of world coins, sold on eBay. Since this coin features an opossum, it might also be of interest to collectors of animal coins, particularly in a mixed lot of such coins.

There are a couple of varieties of this one-cent coin, however, that might have slightly higher values: one has a blunted whisker in the opossum's whisker on the far right, and another has a blunted second whisker from the right. These have catalog values in the $0.15-$0.30 range in average circulated condition, if you can find a buyer who may be interested in them.

2008-06-01 21:40:35 by Kate C

This is my coin pyramid that I am doing beside my bed, I have been collecting Australian 20 cent pieces now for about 12 months now and at the ...

I have a coin that looks like the one in this pic except it has 2 heads and no tails. It has no denomination anywhere on the coin. It has the queen on both sides and looks like the "heads" side of the coin here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_ 5_cent_coin

what is this coin?
is it a normal 5 cent piece? all the other 5 cents coins I have, have the "normal" tails and denomination.

I thought it might be a trick coin too

Sounds like a trick double-headed coin to me.

2009-03-29 00:20:17 by bustmethods

hey my dad used to work in a bank and one day he brought alot of 20 cent coins home but they were different they were much heavier and i asked my dad how come there so heavy and he told me there was a fault in the coin making machine and accidently put more silver in the coin than usual he told me to keep these coins for a few years then to sell them has anyone heard of this or got any of these coins how much are they worth?

The coin making machine is just a great big press. The only fault that can occur is if it stops or breaks:it can't change the metal content. The people who produced the metal would have had to accidently put some silver in-hardly likely. The small amount of silver would hardly be worth anything anyway!

2009-11-28 14:11:33 by Chris

Hi. My mum has a double-headed Australian 20 cent coin with 1980 on one side and 1981 on the other. You can't see any discrepancies on the mill marks of the coin. Yes.. yes I know you're thinking it'd just be a magician's coin, a joke coin. However, it has been weighed by a coin agent and has been proved as not being a fake. To prove it was not a fake, the coin had to be between 11.3 and 11.5 grams for a 20 cent coin (it weighed 11.4 grams). What do you reckon it'd be worth?
Yes, money was offered. Stop being so sinister...
Roxbury's Auction House
It has been proven as legitimate... Not everything is impossible.

You need to find out if the Australian Treasury misprinted any coins to those specifications (yeat, etc.) and how many. Then take it to a collector's show and let people give you offers. They'll probably be able to tell if it's a fake and if not tell you where to verify it. The worth of anything is what people are willing to pay for it.

2007-12-19 22:25:46 by NotQuiteSane

1 Yen is worth about 1 cent Australian, so it can't really buy anything. In Australia, the mint stopped making 1 & 2 cent coins in 1990, because they don't have any practical value anymore. While I was on holiday in Japan I was given some 1 Yen coins in my change. I didn't know what to do with them, so I gave one to a busker when I got back home as a joke and kept the other as a souvenir. I was wondering why the Japanese still use them. Are they supposed to be lucky or something?

Why shouldn't they??

You should know that Japanese shops love to have a number 8 at the end of a price - not because they think it's lucky in any way, but because they think they can fool the public! 99円 is virtually 100円, and everybody knows it! But 98円 is not quite SO close ... so instead of thinking "That's virtually 100円!" people are expected to think "That's LESS than 100円!!!"

Apparently Sony started it ... but with Sony products the price didn't actually END with an 8 - it ended with an 8,000円!! (Or sometimes an 800円!!)

If Japan abolished the 1円 coin, ALL the prices would go UP!!!! What a shocking thought!!

2006-05-01 06:12:13 by agentofchaos