What Is Your List Of The Most Valuable Coins

I have 25 Australian coins, so.... going to be hard.

I have two two dollars, one from 1988 and one from 2006.

But they're the most expensive modern ones.

I have two florins, 1954 and 1952 which seem to be worth more, also a one shilling from 1925.

So... not sure which is the most expensive, but probably one of those last three.

Oops ! my previous post should have read the 2004 UNC mint set

This is an interesting question and it made me think about what I really want to achieve from my collecting journey. For the most of it, I have been enjoying it. My aim has been to create a set of uncirculated decimal coins that have been released for circulation and to pass those sets on to the next generation of my family.

Along the way I have collected pre-decimal coins and foreign coins as well as some non-circulating legal tender coins found in circulation. I enjoy the 'chase' of finding coins to fill the gaps in those collections. I have also started collecting some silver coins and have focused on silver versions of the circulating coins. I'm trying to resist the temptation to buy proof versions of them too (not really working so far).

Like some previous posters here I have stopped buying new releases from the RAM. Their apparent desperation to gouge money from collectors by releasing excessive amounts of junk coins is making it too expensive to keep a complete set going. I know some releases such as the recent Big Things have only two circulating coins from a set of 12 coins but I am not prepared to buy the extras. Same for the AFL and Birthday Cake coins. I see that some of those releases are for sale from dealers for drastically reduced prices so maybe there is a lesson for the RAM to learn there? However, I sometimes feel that if I only have two out of 12 coins from that 'set' then my overall set isn't complete. It is just something that I have to live with. I will not be buying the junk coins.

I used to collect stamps and have literally 1000s of them but stopped when Australia Post pumped out too many just to gouge money from collectors. The RAM is going the same way.

So for me, the most valuable coins for my collection are the ones that make my collection of coins released for circulation complete. The errors or variety coins are what I would like to add but the chances of finding any in circulation are low and the cost of buying them is prohibitively high. Anyway my search continues and I thoroughly enjoy it. Happy hunting everyone.

SallyG and tiggersmob, et al

The collecting of the many, especially the gutter strips, of the Australia Post stamps was fun for a good while until, like you, I got fed up.

My pursuit of decimal coins was very enjoyable for a long time until I began to realise, as you probably did, that from around the mid 2000's the RAM started to issue certain coins - especially 20c and 50c - where you had to buy two separate sets of the same year to complete that year's set. The 2004 UNC mint set is a good example where if I wanted both the 2004 pointy " A's " 50c and the flat " A's " 50c coins in Ch Unc/Gem condition,I'd have to buy two different sets ( Luckily, I bought multiple sets of all years anyway)

Then there was the 2004 Proof set :- some of proof set have the pointy " A's " 50c while others have the lower mintage Flat " A's 50c.
I didn't mind getting both 2004 Proof sets ....but then there was the fabulous 2004 Wedding sets with the brilliant satin like finish on all the coins. So I gradually bought each of th 2002- 2009 Wedding sets primarily for the 50c coins. From 2010 the RAM stopped
minting the Wedding sets with all the coins in them having only the standard finish on them. There was also all the baby mint sets with each having a " special " themed $1 coin in them. I wasn't interested.

The real most valuable coins, for me at least, is the journey.finding them, along with the sense of achievement it can bring.

SallyG, you have such a vast and varied collection : have you got any of the scarcer " fat letters " 1993 50c. I came across two while making up complete decimal sets ( where $ wise possible ) for each of my 5 grandsons.

SallyG

it's more the date of the 1993 50c with the ' 93 being slightly " fatter " and you're right to be checking your 1993 UNC mint sets.

Thanks. I wasn't aware that some of the 2001 Federation 50c have " fatter" lettering. I'll have to check my 2001 Federation 50c closely, as I only realised at the time that some of the 50c had varying degrees of raised rims, especially the Queensland 50c.

I'd be interested in the West rising sun coin
Obviously the 1992 $1 Mob of roos @ 8,000 minted is valuable.
Perhaps the 2023 Memorial coins from The Creatures of the Deep @ 7,102 (except the $1) are one of my most valuable coins going into the future.

thanks for the tip re 2001 50c coins with fatter lettering, SallyG.

As for this thread of " what you consider to be some of your valuable coins" I was anticipating someone would write that they have, for example, a 1979 50c with the double bars in Ch Unc, which I always found to be much harder to find in Ch Unc than either the 1980, or the 1966 50c with the double bars.

Anyone else have something to contribute ?

Amazing!