Finally Found The Last Coin For The Set (With An Outcome!)

Congrats! I know you have been working on this set for some time. So what's next?




I think I have mentioned before that I have been working on a circulating coinage type set for the Seychelles. It is not a high priority though. I currently have 33 of the 52 different varieties that I have identified. A good portion of what I am missing are 1977 coins.

Hmmm.. maybe NZ next. Pre decimals only went from 1933 - 1965

Australia's a bit more complicated..1910 - 1964

To give a rough idea of what it would cost to build a complete date set of Australian pre-decimals, a set graded VG would cost roughly $30,000. If you took out three coins, you could bring that down around $1000.

I finally received my 1969 10 cent coin from Seychelles. I was really holding my breath. If it had gotten lost on its way from the UK I would have been really unhappy! Now I have a complete predecimal set in a Dansco 7070 album. Not as good as a preprinted album, but the 7070 is an alright alternative for the set.

OK...I have to ask a particularly daft question....what is pre-decimal?

The Seychelles pre-decimal set was one I completed in High School. I liked it because the coins had very low mintages and at the time most were available in high grades for under $5. Of course when I was in High School there were fewer coins. I recall the 1939 Rupee in AU cost me $5. I did not do the proofs. My set went up to 1964. It was part of a small islands set I was forming. The smaller ones like Lundy (2 coins) were interesting even if they were unofficial. I also did Nantucket (2 coins) which is considered an illegal issue by US authorities. I got 2 sets of those the year they were issued at face value. I also did Greenland, Guernsey and Jersey. In all cases, I did the earlier issues before conversion to decimal coinage because - they didn't have decimals back then. The last island coin I bought was 1966 Guernsey 10 Shilling.

I gave up the islands, along with most other coins when I was in College - money was too limited for much coin collecting. When I finally resumed collecting after the Navy in 1970 I began with early US and Mexican.

I collect whatever I can find! Everything interests me, but I am not one for spending $200 on a coin. I think my most expensive would be about $40.

I like building sets of circulating coins and have done well for the countries I have lived in. Unfortunatly I was not a coin collector when in the US, but it got me on my way.
However I think my asia/africa/middle east folder has been thrown away. It was at my parents house while I was in austria and they redecorated and has not been seen since. Luckily it was not worth that much, but STILL I was angry!