I Have A Lot To Learn....

Thank you everyone. I'm looking forward to hearing what treasures I may have.

Mr. Goodheart, that is the piece that #20 is! I just realized that the photo is really a terrible one...you can't see anything! I'll see if I can get a clearer on. Now I'm curious as to how he came to own this one.

I'm really interested in hearing what everyone can teach me about these little monies! Thanks again for all your help everyone, it really means a lot!

Laci

All of those $1 coins are worth $1, they are just everyday coins you would get in change.

As others have said, you're not going to find too many people here in Australia interested in paying more than face value for them. Although some of them aren't seen much in change anymore - I haven't seen a Women's Suffrage Centenary dollar (number 12 on your page) for several years - they can all be had fairly easily if you look hard enough.

I should also point out that, if banks in America are anything like banks in Australia, then you're going to have a very hard time finding any that will accept your coins for exchange. Most moneychangers will happily take foreign paper money or banknotes, but not coins - they simply aren't worth the trouble. Unless you happen to know somebody who's heading back to Australia in the near future who will buy them off you at the current exchange rate, the only people who will give you close to exchange rate value for them are coin collectors and coin dealers. And most American coin dealers, if my observations-from-afar are anything to judge, will know even less about Australian coins than you do and will either refuse to take them or only offer you world coin poundage rates (like, $5 a pound) for them.

Your best bet, for maximizing the amount of money you might get for them, is to put them up individually or in small lots on ebay. But that would require a lot of time and effort on your part, with all the hassle of mailing things out, customer complaints etc that ebay can bring.

Meanwhile, I can give you this link to a world coin catalogue database. Just type in the details of each coin you've got - say, "Australia 1988 dollar" - and it'll tell you which types of 1 dollar coin Australia issued in 1988 and how much they should be worth if you were to buy them from a coin dealer in America. Ignore any coins identified as "proof" - those are coins made specifically for collectors and not released into circulation, so you're very unlikely to have any of those.

Hope this helps.

Hey again everyone!

Okay I priced some of these and these ones I either couldn't find prices for or they were worth more then 10.00 (or so they say) but I wanted to check with everyone first. The dates in order are:

1977
1982
1969
1998

Anyone shed some light on these for me?

Thanks again!

Laci

Darn. I knew it was a long shot!! Is there a list somewhere that will tell me which coins and years are actually worth something?

Laci

Arr that's cool Sel, I do similar , but at my age I don't go out much anymore so I don't get change for anything as everything is pretty much paid for buy card or online meaning I just don't get the loose change anymore.

But I keep all my coins even the 5 cents , I have them on a large table grouped and stacked in there decades.

But I sort of fixed my loose change problem , LOL I make my wife and 4 children hand there,s over. They always have change. LOL. My girls and wife are excellent they just leave them on the table for me and I have fun with my magnifying glass sorting them.

Just wished I new which ones to keep LOL. some piles (Per year) are double piled so I need to sort the good ones and move the others on to.

But it keeps me busy. I have lots of 20 c and 10 c but not a clue what is worth keeping. Heaps of 50 cents and no 1 and 2 dallars as I just didn't think anyone would collect them. I just thought they were not old enough. But that is not the case. Now I keep them to LOL.

My daughters work at the ANZ and Commonwealth bank. They said they see those purple $2 coins all the time and will get me some. Should be interesting as I haven't seen one as yet.

Laci,

I'm glad you found this forum to help with your questions. Several of the forum folks have shared some good info on how to sell your coins.

I just wanted to point out that another option, the one that started many of us on our paths, is to keep them. Study them in greater detail and perhaps search for others with designs or histories that you enjoy most. The true value in most coins is in the hours of fun a coin collector can extract from them! :)