Tedius census (an Asterix character)

[fivemack]

I recently took out £200 in two-pound coins, as part of a plan to make carrying large sums of money around with me sufficiently uncomfortable that I'd stop doing it. In particular, if I've just put three two-pound coins in my pocket to buy lunch at the canteen, I don't need to have a wallet, and so I don't have my credit-card readily accessible.

I spent some of them, and counted the rest. Two weeks later, I did the same again; in early January 2012 I did the same again and managed not to spend any before counting them:

Coin type	15 October (93)	29 October (87)	7 January (100)	25 February (99)
Normal Isaac Newton gears	80	69	80	87
Darwin-and-ape [2009]	3	2	0	0
Thistle-and-portcullis jigsaw [2007]	3	1	1	1
Rocket steam-engine [2004]	2	0	1	1
Paddington station arches [2006]	2	2	1	1
Rugby World Cup [1999]	1	2	0	0
Broken-chain abolition-of-slave-trade [2007]	1	5	0	0
Auld Lang Syne [2009]	1	0	2	1
Brunel's mighty hat [2006]	0	3	5	1
St Pauls [2005]	0	1	2	1
Marconi [2001]	0	1	0	2
Gunpowder plot wheel-of-symbols [2005]	0	1	3	3
DNA [2003]	0	0	3	1
Commonwealth Games (Scotland) [2002]	0	0	1	0
Florence Nightingale hands [2010]	0	0	1	0

I think the little-locomotive £2 coin is about the best piece of currency ever issued.

An iPhone 4S costs three treasure-chests like this

Comments

[ckd]

No 2003 DNA coins? Those are my favorite. (Especially the edge text, which says "DEOXYRIBONUCLEIC ACID" followed by a short stretch of double helix.)

[bugshaw.livejournal.com]

I have one of the locomotive coins in the display table.

[del-c.livejournal.com]

Pedantically, it's not the Rocket, which was Stephenson's, but one of Trevithick's earlier locomotive designs of 1804. There is an Alderney five pound coin commemorating Stephenson's Rocket of 1829, as does the five pound note.

[jiggery-pokery.livejournal.com]

It wasn't so very long ago that one of the Euro 96 £2 coins popped up around here.

[atreic.livejournal.com]

You have Treasure!