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.
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.
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.
Which Australian One Dollar Coins Are Valuable? Australia's rarest one dollar coin is the 2000 $1/10c mule - this is the one to look for! A few years ago, a mint condition example sold at auction for more than $10,000.
The 1977 Coat of Arms 50c is the rare one. They were not meant to be minted but 10 of them have appeared.
Kandiah said the 2012 Red Poppy is still valued at around $350, but has “mellowed out” from the high figures it was fetching shortly after the Queen's funeral. “Since that initial hype from when the Queen passed, the coin went down from $400 to about $350,” he said.
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!
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.
The standard $2 design (seen above) has been issued from 1988 to date. The latest version of the Pocket Guide to Australian Coin and Banknotes lists the UNC values for various years ranging from $3 to $25. Remember these are for brilliant uncirculated coins either taken directly from a roll or from a mint set.
Without any paint at all, these $2 coins can get you $50. Another coin with some red paint remaining can fetch you $100. And if the coin hasn't been in circulation at all and is in perfect condition, selling the coin can fetch you $200 or more, “depending on the grade,” according to Kandiah.
A $2 Vietnam War coin has skyrocketed in value.
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.
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.
If there's ever been a time to check your loose change, this is it, with the value of rare $2 coins skyrocketing following the death of the Queen. The 2012 Red Poppy coin and the 2013 Purple Coronation coin were now fetching a combined price of up to $550, avid coin collector Joel Kandiah said.
The 2012 remembrance $2 coin, which has a red poppy on one side, was one of the lowest-minted coins in Australian history, with just 503,000 entering circulation, according to coin and banknote expert @TheHistoryOfMoney on TikTok. If you have one of those in your spare change it could fetch you a massive $370.
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.
1849 Double Eagle Gold Coin
The one remaining specimen is carefully preserved at National Numismatic Collections at the Smithsonian Institution. The 1849 Double Eagle is currently the rarest and most valuable coin in the world, with an estimated worth of nearly $20 million.
The pre-1997 £2 coins are still legal tender but they're not used in circulation and banks/shops can refuse to accept them. Despite this, they still remain incredibly popular amongst collectors!