What is the true value of a dollar? When it comes to one specific $2 coin, it was worth years of searching for Jan Althafer.
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So what is so special about this particular coin? Not a lot - except for the fact that it is from 1991. While it doesn't sound like a hard find, the $2 coin was not released for circulation in 1991. They were, however, released in uncirculated sets which means they are hard to come by themselves.
"It would mean someone would have broken up the set to spend it," Althafer says.
Althafer has been searching for a 1991 $2 coin since the one she originally had in her set of that year's uncirculated coins went missing.
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"It was an incomplete set so I thought I should try to find the missing coin. I didn't realise it would be this hard," she says.
Althafer started asking everyone she met whether they had a 1991 $2 coin. So when she called up 2CA's breakfast show Holmsey and Jen, it wasn't unusual for her to tell them about her search. As it turns out the show's co-host Jen Seyderhelm's mother also collects coins, and was quick to offer a hand.
"I find money all of the time so I thought it would be easy to track one down. It wasn't, but with a little help from the mint I got one," Seyderhelm says.
The mint was able to let Seyderhelm know some leads to follow up. Luckily, one of them came through and Seyderhelm personally delivered the coin to Althafer on Monday.
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