so I like people here you going today and today I'm gonna tell you about its
Australian 50-cent coin this is a 1970 50 cent coin and you can actually find
these in circulation in this condition here so this condition is like high very
fine - nearly extremely fine some coins are extremely fine and if you will be
uncirculated but there will be very few coins that will be below very fine grade
like fine or good condition I've just never seen any now this coin here when
issued in 1970 there were 16 and a half million issued and was 1969 issue which
was 14 million so in 1917 this would have made a bit over 50 percent of the
50 cent coins in circulation and because of that and because it is a
commemorative coin people kept them as a collector's item thinking that no 20
foot is time they'll be able to make lots of money bit like they do now
sometimes I get people asking why is this coin valuable blah blah blah and
I'd say no it's only worth face value depending on condition so in
uncirculated this coin is has a book value of about eight dollars but you're
probably unlikely to get that more likely five dollars for uncirculated but
this coin here probably one or two dollars to sell probably two dollars
more likely in grades were Sonesta for any worth face value
we've 16 and a half million minted you know these would not be worth collecting
if it's probably lower condition than this you can actually get these in
circulation still I get about one or two a year because I
of the heavens have been 37 years since this was minted this hell of a lot of 50
cent coins at that dilute this number so if you come to Australia or if you're in
Australia I encourage you to actually look for this coin it's quite easy to
see you can see it's a Captain Cook's head and I'm at the Australian that has
dotted lines around ya this represents the trip that captain
cooked took around Australia so he was the first Englishman to actually make
contact with Australia and 18 years later they sent in the first 17 years
they sent the first flight and arrived 18 years later so as the signature here
he has the denomination the type that he took the trip contact
Estrella so bottom base rainy did actually come
to Port Phillip where I live then all the way up because Queensland and he
skipped Northern Territory cuz ya don't know why and over where his head easiest
Western Australia so this commemorated the 200 anniversary of Captain Cook
sighting Australia and traveling around so all this area would be mapped by cook
and the rest of Australia would have been met by other people using ships and
satellite technology has confirmed their maps to be pretty accurate and then
here's elizabeth ii ins head pretty standard so if they deplane strange
could sink coin from 1970 if you collect Australian coins I encourage you to
actually get this one I'll leave a link down below to ebay if you're in a
foreign country to see if you can get this coin in good condition for a low
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