After receiving finally my Dragon order from Bullion Bourse today, I am now left over with a roll of 2011 Kooks that I neither wanted or needed. Finding out from them that I was not going to receive what I had paid for three months ago AFTER the Dragons had sold out at the Perth mint has left a sour taste in my mouth. In hindsight I should have rolled the dice and got a friend to get an extra roll for me but it is too late now. I would love to swap the kooks 1 for 1 with previous year Lunars but it seems that the premiums will prevent me from doing this. What a predicament to be in. What should I do with these kooks you think, to get me the best chance of turning them into Lunars? Cheers Chris
I was waiting for a comment like that lol. Silversale, I think it is wrong to have two separate accounts
Coin press , or flog em now as the dragon bubble for BU at least seems to have popped. Still won't get 1 for 1 though
If these are the proceeds of the BB dragon order reimbursement, i take these are 2012 kooks, is that correct?
This ^^^^ I think the 2011 kooks will perform quiet nicely even against lunars. IMO the " wings out" design of the 2011 kooks is really good and there are not many years that have it.
People still think kooks are the equivalent version of the ASE but for Australia. True, they haven't performed as what many expected ( like Lunars) but believe me they are holding theirnown and moving up. The US has recently just started to catch the Kookaburra buzz and already 4 of the local rip-off coin shops are willing to pay OVER spot for kooks. They pay $2 under spot for maples and ASEs. In Singapore a poster from another forum site stated that while the stores prefer Pandas (as Yennus has pointed out before) they love kooks, Lunars and koalas too. Again, I understand how people feel about kooks. Their premiums were pretty high several years ago and when silver skyrocketed to right under $50, ASEs were going almost the same price on the bay. But since then, Kooks have really been picking up the slack and certain key dates (1990, 1996, 2008) have been getting really nice premiums. Kooks went from a bit overrated coin to now a bit of an underrated coin. Most years were 300,000 mintage and look beautiful. We are spoiled with Dragons, Lunars, Pandas, Brittannias, etc,,,,,but many that are starting to come into the "modern numismatic" scene think kooks are hidden exquisite gems If you can trade for older Lunars, go for it. Lunars are better than kooks but my whole point is kooks are still really nice coins and have now been picking up some steam.
this is typical ante-koala rethoric, and as president of the koala lovers guild I won't, repeat will not stand for it. :8
Thanks for the input guys. Much appreciated. They are the 2012 Kooks and while they are a fantastic looking coin, my goal is to complete the Lunar sets. Benny sorry mate they are 2012, Would be happy to swap for mice if you are keen.
Oh.. the 2012.. just as good (potentially given same mintage) but the 2011's are already sold out so should dictate an immediate premium over the 2012 1for1
