Posted 03/12/2008 10:23 am
Rakiura,
Sure thing! They're definitely worth collecting for a number of reasons:
1. Commemorative coins are often of especially beautiful design;
2. If your goal is to complete sets of a country's coinage, you can't afford to miss them;
3. The occasion or person commemorated may be of interest to you, or others, as someting of historical importance quite apart from its numismatic interest.
4. Particularly because of the previous point, commemoratives are often more liquid (easier to sell) and more valuable investments than ordinary issue, non-commemorative (or "definitive") coins.
Much the same thing could also be said about collecting commemorative postage stamps, match-boxes, glassware or porcelain, etc; and the reasons would be similar.
I remember as a kid, collecting full year sets of every Australian pre-decimal coin denomination (I was a pre-decimal kid!) I was particularly pleased to find the 1928 florin, as it commemorated the opening of the Parliament building in the newly-created national capital city, Canberra. Not only was this a link to an important occasion in the country's history, but the design was strikingly different than the standard type of Australian florin, and (I thought) quite attractive. This coin illustrates all four of the reasons I gave above.
There's one more reason you should collect commemoratives: because you like them.
Regards,
Yoyo.
Sure thing! They're definitely worth collecting for a number of reasons:
1. Commemorative coins are often of especially beautiful design;
2. If your goal is to complete sets of a country's coinage, you can't afford to miss them;
3. The occasion or person commemorated may be of interest to you, or others, as someting of historical importance quite apart from its numismatic interest.
4. Particularly because of the previous point, commemoratives are often more liquid (easier to sell) and more valuable investments than ordinary issue, non-commemorative (or "definitive") coins.
Much the same thing could also be said about collecting commemorative postage stamps, match-boxes, glassware or porcelain, etc; and the reasons would be similar.
I remember as a kid, collecting full year sets of every Australian pre-decimal coin denomination (I was a pre-decimal kid!) I was particularly pleased to find the 1928 florin, as it commemorated the opening of the Parliament building in the newly-created national capital city, Canberra. Not only was this a link to an important occasion in the country's history, but the design was strikingly different than the standard type of Australian florin, and (I thought) quite attractive. This coin illustrates all four of the reasons I gave above.
There's one more reason you should collect commemoratives: because you like them.
Regards,
Yoyo.
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