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Australia
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Oky Doky,
May I ask a question. Is collecting coins from the host nation of every Olympic Games both Winter and Summer Games going to be expensive?
I am very interested to any ones idea, opinions and suggestions.
Thankyou for your time,
Lars Edited by KLD
03/17/2006 5:40 pm
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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Of course it will be VERY expensive, that is if you are going to collect the complete set of Soviet Olympics '80. The Soviets minted 6 ni-cupro, 28 silver, 6 gold (1/2 oz each) and 5 platinum coins (1/2 oz each). And to top it up, you can find them minted in both proof and uncirculated qualities. What's worse is that some coins are minted in either Leningrad mint or Moscow mint or even at times, both!
Are you still tempted after hearing that? :D
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Australia
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Speaking of which, isn't the Sydney Olympics 2000 coin set equally expensive, if not more expensive as there is a kilo silver coin, and several gold coins minted for that occasion?
My partial coin collection http://www.omnicoin.com/collection/gxseriesMy numismatics articles and collection: http://www.gxseries.com/numis/numis_index.htmRegularly updated at least once a month. |
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Australia
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LOL, Expensive!, just try and collect all the Australian 2000 summer games coins, it may bust the bank.
But seriously, are you going for just one coin from each nation? Does it need to be a commemerative of the olympics? Because I'm not sure that the early games had commerative coins minted.
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Forum Kid
Kuwait
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Australia
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It took me 4 years to complete the Sydney 2000 Olympics. It all adds up when you take the following into consideration:
1. 16 $5.00 Silver Proofs
2. 28 $5.00 Alu Bronze Coins
3. 8 Gold Proofs
4. 1 Kilomasterpiece
5. 1 $5.00 Silver Proof (Paralympics)
6. 1 $1.00 Silver Proof (Paralympics)
7. 1 Gold Proof (Paralympics)
8. 1 10oz Silver Proof (Paralympics)
9. 2 Official PNC's.
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Forum Kid
Kuwait
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Australia
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Actually, the history of Olympics isn't too long as the Finns minted it in 1952 if I am not mistaken. Ever since then, there is the mad crazy of minting Olympics coins. The first to be credited for minting crazy silver madness is either Germany or Austria, but they might be medals originally. Here are some examples of mine: Tokyo '64 Olympics  Moscow '80 Olympics Silver 28 coin set  One of Soviet Platinum Olympics coin  Nagano '98 Winter Olympics 3rd Series  You can see more images clearly at omnicoin.com :) |
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The U.S. made so many different Olympic coins in 1995 and 1996 that everyone was burnt out by the time the 96 issues were released so NOT many were sold the last year (96) and now they are worth incredible money!!! If we only knew!!!
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United States
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When I was a kid in 1964 I ordered the two Japanese silver 1964 Olympic coins (100Y and 1000Y) from a Japanese bank located in San Francisco.
I also ordered the Austrian 1964 Winter Olympic coin from the Vienna Mint.
I still have them.
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United States
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ive thought about purchasing olympic coins but I cant find no designs on them that really stand out. I mean I like them just due to the fact they are silver but id rather spend my money on something that stand out to me so I cant help ya out here
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Turkey
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It is not expensive at all - if you're an oil king or something like that :LOL
Even if you try to get the coins minted by the olympics host county, you need a serious sum of money.
If you plan to have each and every one minted with an olympic logo on it, I suggest you find the blueprints of a bank and make "other" plans too:)
You may try to have one from each country.
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 Australia
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Originally posted by toast
LOL, Expensive!, just try and collect all the Australian 2000 summer games coins, it may bust the bank.
But seriously, are you going for just one coin from each nation? Does it need to be a commemerative of the olympics? Because I'm not sure that the early games had commerative coins minted.
Thanks for everyone's input. I am not an oil king. Just a king in my own domain......lol. I am referring to 1 coin from every host nation of an olympic games. Either UNC or Proof in silver. Preferrably commerative. Any new thoughts? |
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Turkey
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That is more than reasonable. This time you will have other concerns than prices. Availability may be an issue, but now we have e-bay and friends from all over the world, locating coins mustn't be impossible anymore.
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Australia
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Just trying to keep abreast with the Australian ones has been daunting and expensive. It should be kept in mind that all of them are NCLT's and most have humungous mintages. I have loosely categorise what I called as "Sporting Issues" in my collection and lumped all my sports themed type coins in this category. This is inclusive of he Olympics, Commonwealth Games etc... Collecting one coin from each of the modern day olympics makes a lot of sense and it is less demanding on the pocket. However you can be tempted to complete a series when you are aware of the other coins that has also been minted. Take this series as an example.... In 1992, five different mints were selected by the IOC to participate in a program to celebrate 100 years of the modern day olympics. The five mints all minted two silver and one gold coin as their contribution towards this program.Australia's contribution was issued by the RAM in 1993. The other mints that took part were Canada (1992),France (1994),Austria (1995)and Greece (1996). I have the Australian set and trying to get the other 4 to complete this series has proved to be difficult....  Here are the Australian ones..... Friendship Metal: Sterling Silver Denomination: $20.00 Mintage: 13,647 as single issues, 5,699 as a boxed pair and 7,642 as a three coin boxed set. Fairplay Specifications as above. Individual Participation Metal: 22K Gold Denomination: $200.00 |
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 Australia
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As gxseries said, they didn't start issuing "Olympics" coins until the Helsinki games in 1952. Australia didn't make any for Melbourne 1956  but every summer Olympics since then has seen at least one Olympic coin issued by the host country. Winter Olympics? Not sure when coins for them started up. I think Sapporo 1972 was first. 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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