Australian Lunar Series Mintage - Silver + Gold
 

Parts of this has been posted earlier.
This is info from my dealer who has good contacts with Perth.

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I knew I should have bought that 10 Kilo Gold Pig :sarcasm:

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those are some interesting numbers...now we will see what this does to prices.

seems like one of the best silver lunars is the 1/2 kilo dog coin,

one of the best gold lunars is the 1/4 oz mouse coin.

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Thanks for the data.
Two things stand out to me. Significantly lower mintages for 2oz silver(6465 max sets) and 1/4oz gold(1390 max sets).

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I wish I hadn't sawed my gold ox in half. :shocked_ma:

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http://cgi.ebay.com/Complete-set-twe...QQcmdZViewItem

nice scam

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The 08/09/10 one and two ouncer silvers are real low mintage, they should rocket.

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I'm having fun at the moment putting together a 1oz set. They are so gorgeous!

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You are looking at selling or trading some of your lunar sets for bullion?
Why, I wouldn't :wink:
Sounds like a crazy idea :banghead:
If you really, really want to get rid of the 2oz lunars, pm me, I can trade for bullion.

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i agree with bullrider.....keep the lunars....as the years go onward people will want the old lunars when the new ones come out.

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What these two said..........

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The 2 and 10 ounce Dragons are the best value, followed by the 1 ouncers, for the long haul.
They are the most sought after!

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I hope so, I have just acquired 2 complete sets of 1 oz silver lunars.

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I know the price over spot went from about $5 to $10 on the silver 1 oz rounds from the first series when the second series started, I'd hold.



......or sell them to me.:D

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http://www.apmex.com/Category/515/19..._Series_1.aspx

Apmex got some now.
Looks like Horse & Dragon prices are up 1699 / 2099 !!! (spot 882 today)

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Me too, the last three years of the old series, 08/09/10 will rock, low mintage.

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Perth Mint mintage:
http://www.perthmint.com.au/investme...ns_lunar1.aspx

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I'm surprised at the low mintages of the silver 10 oz.

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thats why they didnt make 10 oz silver coins on the last three.
and surprisingly the 10 oz silver coins dont sell for much premium versus the 1 oz.

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Maybe it is because the 10 ozers cant sit in a pretty lil case :)

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Or the silver shortage..:wink:

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Thats funny........all my 10 ozers are sitting in their pretty little INDIVIDUAL cases.........:D

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Lol I mean the pretty velvet case. You think it is worth getting the whole set for 250 each coin? I know I can get indivudal 10 ozers for less but the set is hard to make. Thoughts?

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I decided to go with a 1/4 gold lunar set for 267 per coin. Not too bad of a premium and the set ended in 07 so it can only go up. THe place I found has almost all of the sizes in gold and silver! Thanks for the help!

Tampa, can you PM me the contact info of this dealer?
Thanks.

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LMAO i just did.... you are my go to person on stuff like this :)

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It's so hard to make a 10 ounce set that it's impossible. Don't forget that no silver ten ouncers were made by the Perth Mint for the last "three years", which was a bummer to those who were collecting them.

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I saw some on ebay sold for around 2600 for 10 10ozers.

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There will be precious few of complete 1/4 oz complete gold sets.

You have one, I have a 1/4oz Rat.

So that leaves 1307 left...

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farming the site he is

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Are there two versions of the Series II Silver Mouse i.e. Proof and BU?..

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I think so. Go to the aussie mint site

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I scored some real nice prices (less than $20 ) on 1oz silver Lunars yesterday.

Woo-Hoo!!

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I would like to hear opinions about buying lunars from APMEX. This seems to be the lowest price silver bullion coin available at the moment on their site. Was going to buy maples from APMEX this afternoon, but BAM...they're gone.

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US Mint has already made 10,000,000 SAE's this year and might make more. Colorado Gold has SAE's at $2 over spot. Most dealers are out of them.

2008-2010 lunars have mintages around 50,000 (approx 1 lunar per every 180 SAEs minted). APMEX price is $3 over spot. Relative to their mintages, this seems like an excellent price.

The only negative I see is that Lunars take up more space because of plastic capsule.

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Okay, convinced myself.

Just bought some 2010 Tigers for $2.99 over spot or $15.79 each.

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Gold lunars have bawked at the spot going down. unlike eagles, maples and other gold bullion, Lunars will not be as affected as they will be when spot drops. People still pay the high prices for them so that they can complete sets before they are hoarded. I plan on completing my sets now :) I never thought I would say this but panda americas prices for 1/4 ounce lunars are very nice right now. Their 1/10 are too high when compared to Apmex.

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OnlyGOld had 8 sets the other day and they all sold out in 4 hours lol... They had them for 11,500. Not bad

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2009 new designs for Australian coins
http://www.perthmint.com.au/investme...coinspage.aspx

2007 1oz silver Koala final mintage 137,764.

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i wonder if more of the series 2 gold lunars will reach final mintage now that the series has some following.

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Personally, I think the series II coins are absolutely hideous. I doubt I'll get any more of them- I even prefer the Series I colored coins to them.

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*gasp* how can anyone prefer those painted abominations to anything?! I mean I might take one over a pile of 40% silver melt, but still...

They do seem to buy/sell for the same value as the uncolorized even tho there seem to be vastly more colorized in circulation based on ebay - I don't think they are even meant as numismatic. I wonder where those mintage numbers are.

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You guys have got me hooked on this lunar malarky! :biggrin: So now passed this problem onto my Dad, well they say share & share alike.. :rofl:

For those of you who are hooked spoke to my dealer today & there is a rumour going around that the 1oz gold Ox lunars are going to be hard to get hold of as the mint is producing the kangaroo's instead to try & catch up on current supply demand over producing the Ox. Might explain why I haven't seen many available as they were snapped up within days here when they came out. This is looking promising for those who managed to get 1 before supply ran out.

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I should have been more specific I meant the BU coins. :wink:

1/10 gold lunar set for sale or trade
 

After some discussion with a trusted friend, I have decided to sell or trade my 1/10 oz gold lunar set with wooden display case. The wooden display case sells for $50++

Will sell for $1800 shipped
Will trade for (2) 1 oz AGE
Will trade for (1) 1 oz AGE + $850 cash

Considering there are only 3792 1/10 oz 1996 mouse coins, that means there can be no more than 3792 sets and we all know that most coins do not end up in sets. How many actual 1/10 oz sets can there really be?...a few hundred? If you want one, here's your chance...just PM me.

Thanks!

*~*Joey*~*

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Appears rumour no more! :wink:

http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegrap...014099,00.html

THE global financial crisis has sparked a new gold rush.

Worried investors seeking a safe home for their money are ploughing billions of dollars into the precious metal in a bid to preserve their wealth.

Demand has now reached such unprecedented levels that the Perth Mint, Australia's biggest wholesaler of gold coins and bars, has been forced to ration its sales.

Perth Mint's bullion sales rose 194 per cent in the December quarter compared with the corresponding period in 2007, while silver bullion sales were up 140 per cent.

The mint has suspended sales of all gold bars and all bullion coins - except its 1oz "Kangaroo" gold bullion coin.

On Monday, after a three-month suspension, it will expand its range of bullion coins for sale but the restrictions remain in place for minted gold bullion bars so the mint can sell some gold to as many customers as possible.

"We are working three shifts a day, six days a week, and still can't keep up with demand," Perth Mint CEO Ed Harbuz said. "I've never known anything like this in the precious metals market.

"We would be working Sundays too but we are having difficulty getting enough staff."

Non-minted gold in the form of cast bars produced by Perth Mint's local refinery can still be bought, although customers who want the bigger bars often have to wait several weeks.

One customer recently bought $500,000 worth of bullion and wanted it delivered so he could hold it personally.

"For very big orders we normally keep the gold in our depository for security reasons," Mr Harbuz said.

"Orders of $10 million or more are not unusual. Often the orders are much larger if we are dealing with pension funds or institutional investors."

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Does anyone know if the mintages quoted are the total number including colourized, proofs & gilded etc coins?

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Ok sent me on a mission this. :wink: Now it seems they made 50,000 gilded coins so looks like these are separate from the bullion mintage coin numbers.

Anyone heard if this place is a reputable outfit as I didn't know about this particular coin?

http://www.govmint.com/item/2005_Aus..._Error/1801550

A Rare Matte Rooster


For 2005, the Australian Lunar Silver Coin celebrates the Chinese Year of the Rooster and is the seventh release in a 12-year series that began in 1999. In an unusual development, the first 2,800 Rooster coins released in 2005 had an unusual matte finish instead of a frosted finish. The small group of mattefinish coins represents only 6% of the total 2005 mintage and just 0.8% of the entire lunar series to date. These Perth Mint issues are among the highest-quality silver coins in the world, and are secure Australian legal tender. Each coin has been struck in a full Troy ounce of .999 pure silver gilded with 24-karat gold.



Weird thing is when you do a search on lunar you don't get a list of the gilded coins coming up they appear on the recommended list to the right. I can't seem to find them on a search anybody having success finding all the gilded ones on 1 page?

If you click on the rabbit you get the goat & monkey? :confused_ma:

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Both of the 10 ounce sets (9 coins) and 5 ounce sets (4 coins) are hard to complete. I'm still looking for places that stock either sizes.

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I got the monkey and snake in 10 oz, open to trades.

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I found some Lunars for sale on www.swmex.se

It's a site written in Swedish

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My favourite dealer in the U.K. used to get quite a range of Lunars, Pandas, kangaroos and Brits now all but the latest years are seen much less. I can see good things happening for this kind of coin in the future. I think type coin collections in general will do better than different dates of same design. Thats my 2p anyway.