What Should I Collect?

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Originally posted by projack

I also bought yesterday a 1988 and a 1989 Holey dollar and dump on ebay 25% below (and that is including postage) metal price

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Depends on how it is viewed matey...

If you bought both the coins based on bullion value then it is a good buy, 2 and 1/2 ounces of silver for an outlay of about $26.00. If they were bought based on potential numismatic value, then I do not think so.

Both the two coins are sold as it is in capsules without the box of issue, and in all probability without the COA as well.

You will find the purist will not bid on items where the packaging and the COA are missing as they are part of the overall package.

Found it !!!! I knew I have a set salted away somewhere..

This is the one that collectors of the "modern day holey dollar" go for, the whole set in a superbly presented package. Contains 75 pages of a well written article with illustrations/photos on the history of the Holey Dollar....check it out.

Front Cover of Package

Introduction

Obverse view of Coins

Reverse view of Coins

Back Cover of the Package

Apologies for the quality of the photos..was taken very quickly...[:p]

Hi projack....please do not read my posts the wrong way. I am not inferring the two coins you have bought are "scrap metal".

On the contary,firstly, I was more concerned that you may draw the wrong assumption thinking you have added two valued coins to your collection and then finding out later they have very little numismatic value.

Secondly, I am not aware what level your knowledge is when it comes to the collecting of Aussie decimals, is it beginner, intermediate or very experienced. As a consequence, my posts was to forewarn you that when buying coins for their numismatic value, you must always buy those with complete packaging inclusive of COA etc..like you were buying straight from the Mint. This way, if you need to off load and resell sometime in the future, your coins will have appreciated or at the very worse retain their issue value.

Cheers....lIM

I was looking at some images of Australian crowns and I am trying to determine how large and heavy they are. for example how large are they compared to the penny.
I'm guessig that it is around the same size of a new zealand 1974 50 cent coin, its the largest and heaviest one I have.

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Originally posted by lim118

Both the 1937 and 1938 Aussie Crowns have a diameter of 38.5 mm and weighs 28.27 grams. Metal composition is 92.5% of silver and 7.5% copper.

Read this thread

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I ordered a 1937 plus a couple of 1966 50c coins on friday from Bigfella, I'm expecting them tomorrow :D

I'm still waiting, knowing my luck it got lost, I once had a birthday card arrive a week after my birthday even though my grandmother sent five days beforehand.

World coins are the cheapest way to start a collection. You could go to a coin shop and buy them for 10 for $2. They never will be worth more, but you can't loose a lot of money on them because you don't put a lot of money into them.

The first way I started was collecting one coin from every country I could find. It's fun and easy to get to 100 countries coins, without spending a lot of money. Some very pretty coins.

Then I started collecting each seperate demonination from a dozen or so countries.

Finally I started collecting each date of a particiular group of coins.

You will learn alot about coins along the way.

When good times hit, I bought the more expensive coins. But when there are hard times you can still enjoy collecting cheap world coins.