My favourite coin turns 23yrs old today.:thumbup::ausflag:

[Mick in Dubbo]

The good old Aussie $2! It's just about the perfect coin. It's about the size of a zinc penny. It hits on the same notch of the zinc penny and when dropped, it doesn't sound like a coin!. It also doesn't corrode easily and cleans up real easy as well. About the only negative. With inflation running at a long term average of around 3%, 23 years is the exact point at which it's value is exactly halved.
Just think how things could have panned out if the $5 note was replaced with a coin. It was on the table when the $2 coin got the go ahead, however, it was decided note to go ahead with at that time. If made, it would have been bigger than a $2 coin but smaller than our $1 coin, which would make it easy to tell apart from screw caps, that also hit in that range.
Mick Evans.

 

[John-Edmonton]

You (and I)are so lucky with those high $$$ coins. I bet at least 50% of our dollar value finds each year come from those. I share your happiness!.

 

[Mick in Dubbo]

Don't tell anybody John, but they account for about 80+% of my totals.(That'd be typical over here in Oz for most modern coin hunters) I do know of a few detectorist that find enough of these goldies, not to have to worry about finding a job. They're a rare breed, but they are there.
Mick Evans.

 

[dahut]

And to think: we Yanks hoard our dollar coins like they are actually worth something more than a deflated dollar.
It is probably as unusual to find one of those than anything else.

Instead we depend on a handfull of rotted zinc cents to offset the inflation loss in a dollar bill. Weird, aint it?

 

[fongu]

I think the US Dollar is worth about 4 cents now. $3.58 for a gallon of regular unleaded, $1.59 for a bottle of water or soda. I remember the gas wars of the 1950's, even tho we did not own a car when gas was 15.9 and 16.9 and there was just regular and premium, sodas were a nickel each and a huge candy bar was a nickel, also. A dollar was harder to come by back in those days, but it went a lot further than it does now. When I was in Germany in 1972, you got 3 marks and 17 pfenings for a dollar. A single soldier could live high on the hog with $100.00 exchange for $317 marks. A good meal and a beer was a couple marks, you could ride the train for a mark. A huge bag of french fries were 1 dollar.
I bet those $2.00 coins ring up loud and clear.

 

[Mick in Dubbo]

It's interesting that you brought up the subject of fuel. Only 2 nights back, the price comparision between fuel prices here was compared to fuel prices in California. We are currently paying around $1.40 per litre, which would be in the ball park of around $4.80 per gallon. I pitty the Europeans though, as their fuel prices are a lot higher than that.

 

[Joel-Winnipeg]

Up here in midwere paying $1.18 a litre down from $1.30 a few months back