2024-25 Edition 'Pirate Guide to Collecting Australian Coins' By Damian Walker

The ‘Pirate Guide to Collecting Australian Coins’ book lists all Australian decimal coins
currently in circulation (from 1966 to the end of 2024), including the coloured $2 coins
released by Woolworths and Anaconda as well as the various $1 sets from Australia Post.
There are high quality images of every coin, so you can see exactly what to look for, plus
mintages (where they’ve been released publicly) so you know which coins are rarest.
It’s a guide to help you figure out:
-Which coins have been released into circulation over the years,
-How rare each coin is,
- What the coins look like, so you know what you’re looking for and can easily spot
errors,
-Which mini-sets you can complete, and
- Common errors, varieties and mintmarks that might be more collectible or valuable.
Whether you're a new or experienced collector, this book will help you discover which coins to look for and what's left to collect.
There is one chapter for each denomination currently circulating in Australia ($2, $1, 50c,
20c, 10c & 5c) plus the 2c and 1c cent coins that were in circulation from 1966 to 1991.
Updates in the 2024-25 edition:
- A wrap-up of changes to Australian coin collecting in 2024,
-Updated mintages from the October 2024 RAM annual report,
- All of the new coins put into circulation in 2024,
- More details on the various effigies of Queen Elizabeth II and King Charles III over the
years, variations in the designs and Heads side-related errors to look for,
-Updated scoreboards to easily identify the five lowest mintage coins with special
designs,
-Additional alternate coin designs (privy marks and mintmarks to check for),
- New information about how to get the most from the book, plus
-A few extra surprises.