Coloured Commemorative $2 Coin.

I guess the low mintage of these coins make it more challenging to find. Trying to find a 2012 2 dollar poppy coin in circulation can be challenging when the mintage figure is at a low 500,000. It is probably the lowest mintage figure for all 2 dollar coins, if not the entire decimal coinage (with the exception of the obsure 1992 dollar coin). It reminded me how difficult it was to find a 1985 and 1993 50 cents coin when their mintage figure are at 1 million each.

I so far have managed to pick up all coloured coins from circulation with the exception of this year's 2 dollar coin. The colorless poppy 2 dollar coin also did circulate but they sure did disappear from circulation very very quickly! I have been hoarding all colored coins when I find them.

No idea about the prices as I have not been on top of the game.

I have a dozen non coloured $2 poppy coins, all taken from circualtion.

The red poppy is about $10-$15, the red, green and orange ring are at about $5-$10, and I have no idea about the purple ones, I only got one from the mint.

So would the mint be giving out rolls soon of the purple ones? If so, then it would be a good time to sell them just before?

2013 Purple rolls and 2014 Green rolls were never issued by Royal Australian Mint

I disagree completely. The release of coloured $2 coins into circulation was an absolute nightmare for me, because they never mint enough for everyone to get their hands on them, and I almost always seem to miss out.

In 2010, I had an almost complete set of circulating Australian coins, all of which I had found by myself, but every year since then has been filled with gaps, many of which involve coloured $2 coins, and I now fear that I will have to suffer the humiliation of having to buy some of these coins off ebay instead of finding them on my own.

This would automatically devalue my collection, because the way in which I've obtained it contributes to its value, and I want to be able to tell future buyers that it was all collected by a single person, or at the very least, by a single family. How can I possibly do that if everyone else has removed the particular coins I need from circulation?

Despite having lived in several different states and territories over the last few years, and having withdrawn large numbers of $2 coins from the local supermarket, I have never ever received a coloured one, and I have only ever received one with an uncoloured poppy.

All the coloured $2 coins I have in my collection so far have come from either family members or direct purchases from the mint, the latter of which I only did out of pure desperation.

Personally, I think the coloured $2 coins are much too conspicuous, and that if the mint wants to continue with these releases, they should be required to release them in much greater quantities.

I've had greater luck finding $1 mules in circulation, despite the fact that there are only 6,000 of them, and despite the fact that I have no personal or family connections with Western Australia.

Although you'd think that I'd be happy to have found a mule, it's only made me much more resentful of the fact that there are so many other circulating coins out there with much larger mintages that I haven't been able to find, including many of the coloured $2 coins, and this has made me quite bitter towards coin collecting as a whole.

Over the next few weeks, I'm going to try to obtain some of the missing coins by brute force, but that won't change my bitterness towards the coloured $2 releases, or my belief that the mint is deliberately trying to make my life as difficult as possible. I want my collection to be complete, and I can't understand why that's suddenly become ten times harder over the last few years.

squaremealroundplate

This isn't about collecting coins just for the sake of it. It's about achieving a childhood dream that has remained unfulfilled for decades. When I was in primary school, I set myself a goal to collect every circulating Australian coin from my everyday change, excluding errors and varieties, and I was only two coins away from achieving this in 2010.

Now, I'm ten coins away from achieving this, and one of the coins that I'm missing, the $2 red poppy, seems like it will be almost impossible to find in circulation. If that be the case, then I'll never be able to achieve my childhood dream, and I'll lose all the motivation I currently have to collect coins.

When I set myself this goal, I thought it was achievable, but if it isn't, then I want nothing more to do with coin collecting. If you're one of those people who has time to noodle through millions of $2 coins, then good for you, but please bear in mind that the rest of us don't have that much spare time.