Is It, Isn't It, What Would You Do?

17 years and in that shape :O nice find ! How about a $5 1oz 1990 silver Kookaburra ? Only 300k minted, have you got the 2012 mint set ? If you can't get a 1990 kook the 1990-2010 have 300k mintage and 2010-present 500k, somebody correct me if I'm wrong

After getting the first & last prefixes, I look for interesting serial numbers (semi solid, radars, repeater numbers etc):

With inflation over the long term you should do better with a large silver coin as mentioned above, than the nice condition $50 note.

I will open this question to everybody, as Ausjack has done.

The reason I can't answer the question for him is that I have been collecting all coins, ancient to modern for decades, and I would buy anything that jumps out at me as representing good value for money. What I could buy may be very obscure. Not a useful answer for this thread.

How would YOU spend $50 for best investment on a numismatic item, that is currently reasonably easy to obtain?

I'll just put him away for a little and think about it..but then there were some nice coin at the post office.

Thanks for your input team