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Valued Member
Australia
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I was just thinking in relation to new probably young collectors these days, are over rare coins from circulation killing the fun? I'm not talking about Cuds or mules or anything like that, but my niece has one of those push in dollar coin albums and has been going through her change looking to fill gaps. I noticed though there is a gap for a 2016 change over dollar, which I don't even have in my collection as I have never come across one in my small scale noodling, so I don't like her chances and I can see her getting bored and being done with the hobby. Heaven forbid she should at some point want the coloured two dollars. Sorry this has turned into a little bit of a rant but I'm just remembering my own childhood when if you were so inclined you could find all the special 50c coins fairly easily and if you got bored spend the lot then find them again. Anyway interested in the general opinion. |
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Bedrock of the Community
Australia
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Rare circulation coins have always been rare finds, when taken from circulation.
To me, a rare circulation coin is one that you have been lucky enough to find, after many years of searching.
All taken from circulation, I have at least one of each of the more common coloured $2 coins. When I get more than two of each example of these, I just spend them as petrol money at the servo.
I have been looking at all of my pocket change over the last 40 years or so, just in case something very interesting comes along, and perhaps that happens with semi scarce coins at a average of once in very six months or so,
but I don't do coin roll hunting.
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Valued Member
Australia
128 Posts |
why would anyone bother collecting if you could just spend and find your collection with ease?
the 2016 change over $1 is a scarce coin... that is why they are hard to find... that is part of joy of collecting.
-"Heaven forbid she should at some point want the coloured two dollars."
Hopefully, your niece wants all of the $2 coins and actually enjoys the time it takes to hunt and find them.
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Moderator
 Australia
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Different people collect in different ways, for different reasons. For some people, their biggest joy is in the hunt - looking, looking, looking for those elusive last few coins to fill the "gaps". For others, the joy is in the final accomplishment, when the set is "complete". Meanwhile for yet others, the entire concept of "sets" that need "completion" is an alien concept and they just collect whatever they like, for some reason other than "completing the set".
The important thing, as a coin-collecting adult fortunate enough to have a coin-collecting child in the family, is to realise the possibility, and to be prepared for, the idea that the child might like collecting coins in a completely different way than you do.
Or look at it this way: coin collecting was at its most popular here in Australia during the 1960s, when the looming decimal changeover meant that all those rare and valuable coins that would soon disappear forever from circulation could still be found for a limited time. The 1930 penny was the undisputed king of all these long-sought-after coins. Everybody had a cardboard penny album and every one of those albums had a hole in it for the 1930. It does not seem to have been a discouraging factor that practically nobody ever found in change that elusive 1930 to "complete" their set.
Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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Don't be discouraged from not being able to find a changeover due in part to very hard hoarding at the moment. Even though I have been noodling hard and I mean hard for about 3 years, I have never found a rotated 2001 1 dollar coin which is now one of my goals, that being said I have found maybe 11-13 1 dollar changeovers in that time and have sold 3 of them two in a set and 1 by its self and they sell easy due to the casuals collector want one in their collection even if they are circulated. I prefer the pre-decimal florin (pre-1937) designed one dollars PNC as a collector since no one really want them, I like the design of that florin so I didnt mind paying money to add it to my collection.
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
1333 Posts |
dream is to find a roll at the bank of florins would make my day maybe year as well and hopefully not from someone deposit it as that would mean that they lost out but from the banks themselves. :P
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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whilst the "thrill of the hunt" certainly applies to adults, I would agree that kids, who generally don't have the resouces available to them, will probably more likely lose interest.
Not helping is the huge number of low mintage circulation coins released over the past few years. The mint is aware that this makes them desirable to adult collectors, but kids just get left behind.
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Valued Member
Australia
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Kids don't like touching cash or coin these days. they think they're too hygienic
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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lol peter have you met a kid before too hygienic more like they put it in their mouths split it out and then pick it back up as if it was some toy, kids don't care about coins in the same way, just what money can buy for them (depends on how old obviously).
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Valued Member
 Australia
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Even things they target at kids like the tooth fairy coin, are basically impossible to get even though they are technically still in issue.
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