Oh no

And now it seems that the 1986 International Year of Peace is a "rare" coin
with the dipstick brigade.
This has sold for $2000.
https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/RARE-1986-1-INTERNATIONAL-YEAR-OF-PEACE-COIN-/294509503569?hash=item4492226451:g:hH0AAOSwTZJhZBP8&nma=true&si=MDrj6EgzJnbXUDKppciwyzRHins%3D&orig_cvip=true&nordt=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557
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Given the coin had a single bid to a seller with 0 feedback makes me think this is someone with multiple eBay accounts, making a fake sale then listing something similar at a relatively cheap price to make it look like a bargain.
Curiosity update. Since your post, Ni is up bigly from ~2.6c/gram to 3.245c/g. Cu slightly up, at 1.35c/g. A 20c coin has 11.44c of Cu, and 9.16c of Ni.
A 20c coin is now worth 20.6c. Turning your notes into small coins gives you an instant paper profit of 3%.
So never underestimate the stupidity of eBay buyers!
2013 purple coronation $2 (hard to find in circulation now, but can sell up to $35 in coin collecting circles)
You baghold for 5 years until the coins are removed from circulation, you sell low to the scrap metal recyclers for 10% above FV, then you have immense regret as they 40x in 60 years like rounds 50c pieces did.Where do you cash in your gains?
where we'll finally discover what negative interest rates are like.
The correlation between CBDCs and negative interest rates has always eluded me. Now either I've completely missed the memo or there isn't any correlation.
Real rates are already well into the negative. Nominal is kind of meaningless if official change in CPI is 7%
A ton of nickel on the open market costs $68,000 AUD but you can buy it from your local bank for just $28,560, assuming you can get near spot value for the copper.Scrap metal merchants buy dirty copper (copper with other metals) $ 3 to 7 a kilio
Not sure if anyone will pay for nickel content in a coin, unless you are selling by the ton.
A ton of nickel on the open market costs $68,000 AUD but you can buy it from your local bank for just $28,560, assuming you can get near spot value for the copper.
Actually, you can't even get it on the open market, the LME brought in new rules for some metals, nickel included, which allow vendors to avoid physical delivery entirely. They brought in these rules last October when Trafigura started the bank run on copper, but they've extended the same rules to aluminium, nickel, cobalt, lead, tin and zinc. https://twitter.com/JavierBlas/status/1500908588205756421/photo/1
The metal exchanges are literally not allowing people to 'cash out' into physical metal. The bank is not only allowing you to cash out, but they'll also give you way more metal for your money than any market. Such spreads tend to narrow quite fast.
For historical reference, silver round 50c effectively disappeared from circulation when they hit 60c, a 20% value above face.
A 20c coin is now worth 31c. Exciting times.