Celeste Weerts,11,travelled with her family to Canberra after the Sydney fireworks to be in the ballot to mint the first coin anywhere in the world for 2019.
The Register of Unclaimed Money database was updated earlier this month,and logs 54,000 new unclaimed money notifications totaling almost $12.71 million.
People are being urged to check their change after the mint released three million specially marked $1 coins.
Germans have bought a lot of gold bullion recently,to the delight of the Perth Mint. Did they see a crash coming,or were they just being typical Germans?
A $4 op shop bargain - actually a 17th-century Chinese'libation cup'- sells for $75,640.