50cents vs florins

[alor]

long time stackers usually do not contribute much to the marginal increase in demand, the new buyers would have more fiat to convert to metals
there are always buyers, but in a rush, people are line up to buy and sell
boom end is a bust begin then bust end and boom begins, like night and day
the sun down is the end of the day, and another night begin with sun down (1 day = night + day = A sidereal day is approximately 23 hours, 56 minutes, 4.0905 seconds (24 hours − 4 minutes + 4.0905 seconds = 86164.0905 s = 23.9344696 h).
a new stacker is born when he put one bar on top of another

 

[REDBACK]

The differences between bullion florins and fifties can be summarised here:
.925 for all florins up to 1945. The earlier 2 monarchs are typically cull coins or slicks like the one pictured earlier in the thread. They were heavily circulated and it shows.
The most recent pre46 monarch series is typically in gradeable condition, tending to aUNC and sometimes UNC for the last year or two of mintage. Huge amounts were minted so that US and other military personnel stationed in Australia had currency, from what I’ve read
These latter coins are typically in better grades as they were less circulated before the debasement from .925 to .5 in 1946

With fifties you have a single year and the only real hope for a numi is the rare double bar or if you bought UNC (available a decade ago in quantity, I don’t know now)

With .925 florins there is a good chance of picking out a few rare coins eg 1914 Heaton but the odds are very high the coin will be in the lowest grades
Even still, the odds are high to near certain of numismatic grade coins in the 1942-1944 range...a small premium but one nonetheless (although if buying from a

On SS popularity waxes and wanes. There have been many times you could not give away post46 and the odd time large amounts of fifties went unbought even when 7.50 AUD

You rarely see .925 in bulk here...yet

What I suspect is coming soon is a lot of hoardings come to market in the run up to 50 AUD. You’d think that will put a ceiling on prices for a time until inventory is exhausted or the spot price runs harder. The reason is that figure would be tempting to an old time stacker from the last run up. I see in the trading section already one or two vendors recently seeking to offload quantities of bars and coin at the current price. Around 10x that might put $1 million of product into the supply side here and I don’t know if there is demand to absorb it

'Excellent summary above'
If we get a run on silver like in 2011 the difference between the 50's & pre won't matter much.It was difficult to get hold of either at one point.In 2011 we had an individual that brought around 800k of 1966 50's,he helped to really dry up supply.Without doubt the retail value of the 1966 Fifty is more well know and coveted than Pre and Post coins.This has been demonstrated time and time again to me with public purchases.Baby Boomers,GenX & Gen Y are all more switched on to the value of the 1966 Fifty in fact most actually over estimate its silver value.

 

[hardyakkagold]

Not the same interest at the moment. 50 cents selling like hot cakes.....florins are floundering.

There will come a time soon when any type of genuine silver will be selling like hotcakes, whether it is .999, .925, .500, or even .333 fine silver.

I have purchased, sold, and traded both types of silver coins by the thousands over the last 30 years.

My preference would have to be the florins over the 50 cent rounds for coins in circulated condition, this is due to the fact that
with the florins you can have different dates, different monarchs, and different designs and mintmarks, which you dont have with the 50 cents.
So more interesting to accumulate and admire as well.

I still have thousands of florins in my stack, but only a few hundred 50 cent rounds in my accumulations.

The 50 cents coins that I have kept are all in lovely bright choice uncirculated condition and are a pleasure to look at and admire.
I won't be selling any of them until the silver price is in the triple digit range.

These type of coins are rare and undervalued in todays prices, if you dont believe me then have a look at any of the major coin auctions,
and see if you can find bulk offerings of silver 50 cent coins in this strictly uncirculated condition.

 

[Mirrorman]

Have both and like both .. also like 3d , 6d and shillings .