What To Do / Collect Next?

Show us some of your earliest and best coins to start.

That's a problem I have never had. As I collect all world coins, my collection will never be complete, but I'll have fun trying.
Like Sel I try to avoid NCLT, you have to draw a line somewhere. Unlike Sel, I'm not into ancients.

Steve, shouldn't there be a 'yet' at the end of that statement?

When It comes to ancients, I have to admit I have had the benefit Of some very experienced numismatic professionals to advise and educate me, to pick fakes and to a lesser extent, with identification.

I have also been fortunate enough for a close friend to help me out with some heavy hitting scientific test instruments such as electron microscopy, with attached XRF.

Needless to say, I have gone out of my way to be good personal friends with such people.

That made ancient coins much less daunting (especially Greek) when I first took up an interest in this area of numismatics.

Coins - especially ancients - are the hardware of history.

As the OP of this thread I think we've gone a bit off topic here.

What should I do with my AUSTRALIAN coin collection was the original question! I'm not interested in ancient or world collections (but I do have a rather heavy box of foreign coins which I toss coins I find in rolls or coins I manage to get people off in)

Well, to be fair, the question in your thread title is "What To Do / Collect Next?", to which "collect ancients and/or world coins" is a perfectly reasonable answer. You're not interested in world or ancients? That's perfectly OK. No-one should feel obligated to collect things they don't like and have no interest in, just because other people say you should.

Personally, I've never been an "upgrader". Once I own one, I feel zero need to try to seek out a "better one". So for me, the only possible answer is "expand the collection".

Other "Australian" areas you could consider expanding into are:
- NCLT
- Predecimal
- Pre-Federation (gold sovereigns, tradesman tokens, Proclamation coins, and yes,British coins)
- Exonumia (tokens, medals, etc).

Yep I should have realised that.




You do have a good point. The thing is, though, I can't really afford a lot of $2 rolls. The best way I can go through a lot of $2 coins is if I go to the bank on a Saturday, then stand there, slowly emptying out the machine of $2 rolls, going through the rolls and putting the coins I need in my pocket, then feeding the rest back into the machine.

Unfortunately, I actually damaged the machine doing that, as a few days later when I tried to deposit some coins through that exact same machine, the ATM read "System Difficulties" and wouldn't spit my money back out. The bank staff just shut down and rebooted the machine, and the teller asked for my details and how much money the ATM swallowed. The next day the machine just had a sign over the chute saying it was out of order.

So after that saga, I'm not too sure about what to do.

But I think the mint pack only years are reasonably well priced. I think at the coin shop I went to, most years were under $10-15?, even for the proofs, so I'll slowly work my way up. I think I might also buy the different mintmark years for the 5, 10, and 20 cents though (1966 and 1981, I find it impossible to tell which is which). Wish me luck trying to get the 1983-1993 20 cents though!