Respected numismatist Joel Kandiah says the Royal Australian Mint's latest Vietnam War Silver $2 Coin is now in hot demand.
The set was originally sold for $170 - however in recent days, the sets have been valued at as much as $6,000. Kandiah says it's the demand for the $2 Mars coin is driving the huge spike in price for the collection.
A new $2 coin commemorating the end of the Vietnam War has skyrocketed in value and is now selling for up to $1,200 online. The Royal Australian Mint released two $2 coins earlier this month to commemorate 50 years since the end of Australia's involvement in the Vietnam War.
The tiny “HH” stamp can be found on 1988 and 1989 $2 coins in the bottom left-hand corner, on the lower chest of the Indigenous man featured on the tails side. WATCH THE VIDEO ABOVE: The 'HH' $2 coin now worth thousands.
We get many calls a week from people asking if the $2 coloured coins they've found in their change or worth money. The answer from us is most often, “no”.
And the purple 60-year coronation coin from 2013 has jumped up in value to between $75 and $180. Both coins have been in circulation for several years now, but their unusual design and their low mintage numbers have made them very collectible.
Mintages. A key tool for working out how rare your coin might be is our £2 mintage chart. Generally speaking, the lower the mintage, the rarer the coin and the harder it will be to find in circulation.
The rarest £2 coins
The most sought-after is the Northern Ireland version, of which there are only 485,500 in circulation. It has sold for way more than £50 on eBay previously. While the England and Scotland editions are the second and third most rare and valuable £2 coins in the UK respectively.
1988 $2 Coin - Lamination Peel
As you can see from the image above, the surface layer of the coin has peeled over the roman numerals 'II' and is also separated at the effigy section of the Queen's hair. This lamination error has caused a crack to continue up through the crown.
Or Why is the 1988 $2 coin rare? The reality is that these coins are worth…. $2! They have no value over their face value and anyone who tries to sell them to you for more than that is scamming you and should be avoided like the plague.
The Royal Australian Mint has released a $2 collectors' coin to celebrate 200 years since the introduction of the European honeybee. At the time of writing, one of the 60,000 uncirculated coins was selling for as high as A$36 – but that's not the only sting in the tail of this commemorative release.
In his video titled “Australia's rarest circulating $2 coin”, the man showed exactly how to detect a fake $2 coin featuring the iconic red flower. “The 2012 red poppy currently has a value of $180,” Joel said.
And the silver crisis of 1945 and 1946 and the 1945 Penny, Australia's rarest penny. And this 1946 cupro nickel florin, an experimental strike in an alternative metal and the the only example held by a private collector. The Melbourne Mint produced four florins in cupro nickel.
The Royal Australian Mint proudly presents this $2 Wags The Dog Coin. A must-have for decimal collectors! As with every RAM $2 commemorative, the four full-colour Wiggles $2 coins are likely to be low-mintage issues, and sure to be hoarded out of circulation at speed!
The 1977 Coat of Arms 50c is the rare one. They were not meant to be minted but 10 of them have appeared. Embrace all the imperfections.
A list of valuable 50c Australian coins is fairly short - most are only worth their face value unless they are in premium grade. One of the first 50 cent piece designs that many people notice in their change are the fifty cent coins struck for the Centenary of Federation - there is one for each state and territory.
Like all £2 coins, which are bi-metallic, the design features the standard gold-coloured ring outside made of Nickel-brass and a silver-coloured centre made of Cupro-nickel. But this particular error coin has seen the design accidentally minted on one type of metal - so it appears all in one colour.
"Double die pennies are highly sought after by coin collectors because they are considered a rare and valuable error." Coin collectors have purchased doubled die pennies for hundreds, thousands and tens of thousands of dollars from online and in-person auctions.
The original red poppy coins were released in 2012, Mr Kandiah said, and had a mintage of 503,000 – 40,902 of which were C-mintmarked.
Which are the rarest 2-pound coins? There are an estimated 417 million 2-pound coins presently in circulation, representing 37 different designs. The rarest of these are the 2-pound coins minted in 2002 that celebrate the 2002 Commonwealth Games and bear the flag of Northern Island.
According to the blog ChangeChecker, the rarest one pound coin currently in circulation is the Edinburgh £1. The coin was part of a series depicting the four capital cities of the UK and is the only £1 coin with a mintage below one million.
Figure 4 is described as the Holy Grail of bimetallic 'errors' and is the result of the nickel-brass £2 blank not having the inner core section punched out before being struck. This means that the £2 coin is made from one full piece of nickel-brass, completely contrasting the very idea of a bimetallic coin.
Ans: Yes, The William Shakespeare Skull 2 coins are rare. The tragedies coins for William Shakespeare are pretty rare. These coins also have some minting errors; the ones with the errors are even rarer and you can collect them and sell them for even a higher price.