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Love them or hate them, some of the most striking coins in Australian wallets recently are the coloured two dollar coins.
They're pretty hard to miss amongst a pile of change, and a lot people have started collecting coins simply because of this range.
Originally, they just had a single coloured circle - purple, red, green, orange.
Then they got more creative.
However, this video is not just about coloured $2 coins. The purpose of this video is to point out some of the really subtle coins that are actually really rare AND you may NOT notice, even if you're staring right at it.
Let me tell you what happened to me. I was swapping coins with some mates recently, and one was showing me his latest copy of the green 2015 remembrance coin.
This coin is one of my favourites - I remember where I was the first time I saw this beautiful coin... I got in my change back in 2014 while ordering lunch.
(I'm not going to confess what I was ordering). But I remember the first time I saw that coin very clearly from all those years ago.
So imagine my surprise when the coin I was looking at was dated 2018 - not 2014.
My first thought was... is this a fake? Why would someone make a fake and get the year wrong??
And then we realised what it was - in 2018, there was a special set of two dollar coins. The set was created to showcase the various two dollar designs and commemorate the 30th birthday of the $2 coin - 20 June, 1988 (a great day!). It had a copy of all the different two dollar designs, but more interestingly EVERY one of those coins had a 2018 date on it, regardless of when the original coin was released.
Now it's only because I know that particular coin so well that I noticed that change of date.
But it made me realise that there are a few curiosities from the two dollar coins worth pointing out. Some of these could be worth a lot more than face value, and unless you're looking for them, they're easy to miss.
If you look closely, ALL of the coins in this set have a date of 2018. Yet many of the coins being celebrated were from years earlier. These are different coins from the original coins being celebrated.
Why is that interesting? Well the thing with the coloured $2 coins - most people never look closely at the heads side, cause the tails side has all the action.
A lot of people have pulled this set apart for various reasons - often selling the coins individually instead of the whole set, and some of these very special coins may actually end up in your change.
There were less than 30,000 of these sets created, so that means that these 2018 versions each have a mintage of less than 30,000. Some of these coins were low mintage when they first came out, but these 2018 versions are extremely low mintage!
Now Please note - some of the coins included in the set were already 2018 coins, so they've always been 2018.
Now I will emphasise again that it's unlikely you'll see many of these coins, but I'd hate you to miss it if you come across one.
So, check the year on your Heads sides, look for the privy marks and I hope that you find some interesting coins in your hunting!
Coin designs used with permission from the Royal Australian Mint (9/45/360)
