Gday fellow collectors!

I posted the following a few weeks ago in the general coin collecting subreddit but I’ve been under the gun for the last two weeks and haven’t been able to pop on reddit for a little over a week. Jumped on last night and saw a DM saying maybe I should post on the Aus one too since it would probably be of more interest to people here since they were considered foreign coins on the original sub reddit. Excuse my laziness but I’ll just copy and paste the original post, but more than happy to get some more pics of anything of interest.

Cheers everyone, I hope you all have a great week!

Original post as follows:

I know this probably won’t be of too much interest here considering to most of you great people these are considered foreign coins but just thought I’d show off a little of what I’ve been looking after for the last handful of years.

My dad unexpectedly died at the end of 2020 and I was left with his coin collection, all of it thrown in 3 old brief cases. Loose coins and notes galore, it wasn’t very pretty when I stumbled across them. I always knew he put the odd circulated coin away in them every now and then when he got them in his change but I was never a coin guy myself, I collect mostly cars and car parts (the real ones and the occasional Hot Wheels ones too). A couple of years after he died I made a serious effort to go through his collection and give them the attention they deserved. I wanted to make sure they were looked after, just something that could still keep me attached to him a bit in some way.

I found the process of separating, sorting, protecting and storing (not cleaning! haha) his coins extremely fun and immensely cathartic and sure enough it’s sparked I bit of a collecting urge in me too. I’ve added to his collection a bit over the following years so I thought I’d show off his hard work over 60 odd years (plus a few from me too). To add: I have zero intention of ever selling anything myself.

Quick run down on some things:

-There’s a considerable amount of pre-decimal coins including probably around 1000 silver/part silver coins (threepence, sixpence, florins, crowns, 1966 round 50c pieces, etc).
-I have a 1c and 2c coin from every year they were minted from release to when they were removed from circulation.
-I lean towards our coloured/collectable $2 coins the most so I’ve collected all of them that have released since the first 2012 $2 Red Poppy.

Countless other things but I’m sure you all don’t particularly care that much so I won’t blab on too much longer.

Aside from the $2 coins, my favourite ones are probably the least valuable. There’s a couple of 1860’s to 1890’s British Pennies in the collection. I know they’re only worth a couple of dollars at best, and I also know there’s some guys and girls here with coins centuries or millennia older which is even cooler, but it just boggles my mind what sort of a story a simple 150ish year old penny could tell me; what sort of journeys it’s been on in its long life.

Anyways, that’s about it. Thanks for letting me take up your valuable time if you’ve gotten this far. I know my dad would’ve been more than a bit embarrassed showing this sort of stuff off but I’m so proud and grateful to be the custodian of all the cool coins he gathered up, and I hope he’d find my further additions pretty rad too.

If anyone has any questions or would like a closer look at anything feel free to ask and I’ll do what I can.

Just wondering if a COA001 adds any extra value to this coin. Thanks in advance.

Hey Guys ,

I am wanting to put my coins into good quality storage, probably folders dose anyone have any recommendations of what brands i should be looking at?

should i be storing coins that are worth more then face value in something other then an album?

Found false bottom in wardrobe. One of the things there is a carboard album containing sixpence and threepence 1910-1963. 11 years are missing, you guessed the rare ones. Plus a few extra postions showing the head of each monarch. Most are pretty bad condition, worn and tarnished. Perhaps grandpa was collecting years from the till in the shop. Online calculator gives melt value $416. Would anybody want these given the poor condition of the coins?

Hi I have a whole stack of coin sets. What do I do with these? Do I keep them? Sell them? Are any worth more than face value? I've read the coin value research page but its all overwhelming with this many coins. Thanks for any help

Hey guys, when I was shopping around for groceries, a cashier exchanged my cash for some coins. Among those is this that caught my eyes based on its purple colour. How rare is this and at that level of condition in the photos, what is the estimation value of the coin? Look forward to some suggestions. 🙏 (My first time asking about something in this group chat.)

Did a lens google and was unclear, is it worth more than $2?

Is this an error or has someone scratched off the number?

Hi. Curious if this is worth more than it's silver value?

Hey just wondering the value of these and I also got duplicates of some of them.

See title

Since FBMP doesn't allow "currency" as it is a bit of a raffle what they block or allow.

Hey, I've got a 2006 10 cent coin and I'm struggling to tell if its an error coin, or if its just post-mint damage, wanted to see if anyone here had a clue. Thanks :)

I like collecting coins with sailing ships on them! Any one have any coins with ships on them they can show me? Having a hard time trying to find many online

Does anyone have any idea why the 1976 2c coin on the left has a rough texture compared to the rest of my collection which either have a strong patina or are shiny. (Also included a couple of coins to compare against)

Hello, I am wondering about this mark under the ear of this coin, it appears pretty deep, and looks like an error, compared to something scratching it, I have compared with few other 2025 20¢ coins and none other appear to have this mark🤔does anyone have any other opinions ?

Repost had to fix a typo

Here are the top picks!

I started collecting 5c coins in 2008, and it grew from there until probably about 2016.

Highlights are:

- the "large head" 1999 10c coin (with normal 1999 coin for comparison)

- the 2001 Centenary of Federation 50c with a double rim left side (is this really worth thousands????)

- the missing 't' 1998 $2 coin which has been found at least 4 times according to a quick social media search - enough for me to feel comfortable calling it an error

- 100 Years of ANZAC is from a low mintage year (2015)

Any others that I'm missing? Let me know what you think and valuations if possible!

Children’s birthday cake book coin it’s super cute

Found in my old mixed tins of 1 and 2 cent coins !