Tedius census (an Asterix character)

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