Buy Of The Week

My hoarding instinct became too much for me! I couldn't resist! I went into the coin shop and bought a lot of junkers. Most grade AG-VG, or have problems such as corrosion or various forms of damage. Definitely quantity over quality here. Still, I got a few better dates; these coins will add some variety to my junk boxes.

Here is the list.

Nickel three-cent pieces: 1865, 1868, 1869, 1870
Seated half dimes: 1840O, 1848O, 1854, 1856O
Bust dimes: 1809, 1820, 1825, 1829, 1835, 1837
Seated dimes: 1838, 1841O, 1849, 1850, 1851, 1853 arrows, 1856, 1857, 1857O, 1868S, 1869S, 1871, 1872, 1873 arrows
Draped Bust quarter: 1807 - very badly but evenly worn; almost smooth!
Seated halves: 1876S, 1877
Walking Liberty halves: 1921S (Qty 2)

I must be crazy. For some reason, worn-out junkers attract me (and it's not just the low price). Most junkers have a unique appearance resulting from the years of abuse they have endured. They have a lot of character!

One of these days, I will have to post pictures of some of my ugliest coins (that is, if I ever get around to taking pictures of them).

Heather

1864 Confederate States of America $50.00 note! Mike

In todays mail I received a 1914 $10.00 "New York" FRN! Mike

djluster, do you know that the Australian Kookaburra does come in even bigger sizes?

These are Bullion coins. and come in 1 oz $1 coin
2oz $2 coin
10oz $10 coin
1 kilogram $30 coin

The Perth Mint started in 1990 with simply two (2) 1 oz coins.
The 1990 Proof and the 1990 Specimen. With different images on each.

Your coin is the 1990 Specimen.(mintage 301,500) This same image is used on the 1991 Proof 2oz coin.

The 1990 Proof image was used for the 1991 Specimen issue. For most years after that whatever was the Proof image one year was the Specimen image the following year.

In 1991 the Perth Mint added the various sizes and had a total of 5 coins that year.

In 1992 the Perth Mint added "privy marks" to the coins. A privy mark is like a mint mark but is a little picture that can range from "Eagle" to "Opera house" to "Sydney mint soverign". This added a lot of variety so that there were 12 differnt combinations that year.

In 1993 the Perth Mint had 18 varieties.
In 1994, 13 varieties.
In 1995, 19 Varieties.
In 1996, 25 Varieties
In 1997, 28 Varieties
In 1998, 17 Varieties
In 1999, 37 Varieties
In 2000, 39 Varieties which just about killed the market for these coins as many collectors had to give up trying to keep up with them all. The collectors never came back and the following year 2001 had only 16 varieties and 2002 11 varieties.

Now to make these privy mark coins attractive they made very low mintages. Many of the varieties issues only have a mintage of 1500, some of the large denominations had a mintage of only 250.


The Perth Mint also did a large range of Gold and Platinum coins. Also killing the market in these. The 1993 Proof Platinum Koala 1 Kilo coin had a face value of $3,000. The mintage limit was 50. They sold 3. Yes only 3. The issue price was $24,554.00 The book value today some 13 years later is $22,000.

Whoops, sorry, got carried away with this post. This should probably go into a differnt section.

I also received my 3 RCM speciman sets. They are beautiful! I also received a very nice 1982 proof set from our very own Speedy(Spencer) Mike

Hi djluster.....further to what Toast has advised, the 1990 and 1991 are the only two kookas with a nominal face value of $5.00. All Kookas after have nominal face values of $1.00.

I find it interesting that your Kooka is in a 2 X 2, did you remove it from coin capsule that it is issued with

Gosh I love those ASEs!