I'm thinking in particular the 2013 Kook with the Snake privy. I've seen privy's ridiculed in numerous thread, numerous times, but is it possible that the 50,000 limit on the snake privy kook may fair better then the 500,000 2013 coin (revised back from 1 mil at one stage I believe!)? Or is collecting the set more important than the mintage, and with no privy's going back to the beginning, privy's will always remain as a bit of an aside?
i think collecting a set for investment purposes would be a no privy thing, if its something you want then buy it with the privy during the year if you can get it with a low-fair premium and if it goes up in future years then score for you
"Will they ever be loved?" They're already very, VERY much loved -- by the mints, distributors and vendors. A silly little mark that adds relatively little to total per-coin production cost but causes several dollars to be added onto the final retail price of the coin? You can bet the production, distribution and sales people all love that BIG-TIME. To their ears, it's the beloved music of Beethoven's Cash Register Symphony -- Cha-ching! Cha-ching!! Cha-ching!!!
I have bought the privys starting from 2011 with the koala, kookaburra, and the lunars simply because, if you think about it, no set is TRULY complete without the privys as well.
Kooks had privies from 1993 or so onwards and the Perth Mint went absolutely nuts with them in the late 1990s to the point they made it just about impossible for anyone to collect all the privies. It died off after 2001 (I assume because collectors became sick of them?)
Im just waiting for the 2012 dragon privy w/ lion mark to arrive any day now! Ill post up a pic with all 6 when I have the dragon
I forgot about the 2012 Koala w/ Privy...but here are the rest that I have so far. As stated above from other people on the forum, the privy coins have a hell of a lot less minted coins than their regular counterpart!
For me it's just a gimmick to sell more coins over the production limit. Each to their own, I agree they look pretty cool, just not for me. I have never seen a set that included the privies. All the sets I have seen are just the 23 coins from 1990. There would be some thing like 40-50 maybe more privies in the line up. Some years had star signs, countries ect. The only privies I would collect have the Chinese pandas on them. They go for a good premium. Hard to see how they are all going to get this premium. Bottom line stack what you like, and hope you stacked what others like.
From the replies I have read in a few different threads around a similar question it appears they don't go down well in Australia but are certainly more favourably received in the United States and much of Europe.
don't know why but they command higher premium at the places I want to buy them ... the only exception was dragon, the rest are out of my consideration ... I'd better buy lunar 1 which I can find locally then pay the same price for privy ones though I want to add them to collection.
