Shopping trolley tokens mingled with coins from the US, United Arab Emirates, Singapore, Greece and Italy donated to the Royal Children's Hospital over Easter.
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But, luckily, plenty of Australian coins also rattled into the Good Friday Appeal tins, with the Wodonga collectors reporting 40,000 five cent pieces among their total.
They joined all the 10 cent pieces (31,000), 20 cent pieces (30,000), 50 cent pieces (10,000), $1 coins (6500) and $2 coins (5900) in the tally.
The most popular donated note was $5, with $100 notes the least collected and the largest single donations being $500.
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Wodonga Lions Club's Phil Wilkins said Wodonga's Friday figure of $88,675 was about 10 per cent less than last year, possibly because more people were going away with the combination of Easter/Anzac Day public holidays.
"The trade-off was we planted some collectors at the APCO service station; it was just enormous, in excess of $8000 or $9000, just from one collection point, where all the people were for obvious reasons," Mr Wilkins said.
"We were blessed with the great weather, we had the best part of about 240 volunteers on the day, obviously across all the emergency services and the Lions club."
He thanked all the volunteers and also the businesses who supported the appeal through donations of food for collectors and the use of equipment such as counting machines and high visibility vests.
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