Collector coins. [Resolvido]

Hi I am trying to catalogue my coins physically by country, time etc. I saw online there are three different types of coins commemorative, circulated and non circulating coins. Could someone please explain to me what is meant by commemorative coinage.

 Where instead of being the usual coin, the design shows a historic event. 

To commemorate it. Example - South Africa 5 Shillings 

 That is my coin - here are links 

N#13487 [1951] 

N#11621 [1953-1959] 

 yet in between those dates the usual reverse was changed to that one shown above. 

N#12759 [1952 only] [1652-1952 Commemorative] 

A commemorative coin is a coin that's issued to celebrate something (an event, a birth/death anniversary etc… in fact anything without the ordinary). Australia is an excellent example. Every dollar coin without the mob of roos but with the same specifications is a commemorative. A commemorative coin can be circulating or not.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commemorative_coin 

N#23657

Hey I meant more this, the collector coin I have for example in the link, why is it listed separately not categorised as non circulating or circulating commemorative but instead categorised as a collector coin.

Collector coins - Coins issued by a government for collection or investment purpose. They were not intended for circulation. The coins are denominated in a currency which doesn’t have circulating coins or banknotes.

Perfect, thank very much.

Types of objects

In this case, because Andorra is a Principality and it’s official currency was that of its two land neighbours France and / or Spain - so the French Franc or the Spanish Peseta. I really can’t remember or be bothered to find out which one or if both were excepted, and I can’t remember. But the point is the Andorra minted coins were just minted for collectors and weren’t circulating. Now they use the Euro even thought they are not in the Eurozone.

So to sum up; collector coins are just minted for collectors and are not circulating or legal currency.

Thank you for the further clarification.

King

In this case, because Andorra is a Principality and it’s official currency was that of its two land neighbours France and / or Spain - so the French Franc or the Spanish Peseta. I really can’t remember or be bothered to find out which one or if both were excepted, and I can’t remember. But the point is the Andorra minted coins were just minted for collectors and weren’t circulating. Now they use the Euro even thought they are not in the Eurozone.

So to sum up; collector coins are just minted for collectors and are not circulating or legal currency.

Hello, as you rightly say, Andorra used the French Franc and, I believe to a greater extent, the Spanish Peseta. Both were used equally in Andorra before the introduction of the Euro in these two countries.

At the same time, the Andorran government issued its own non-circulating currency (collector coins in Numista), the Andorran Diner, divided into 100 Cèntims, for collectors' purposes only. Diner (not to be confused with Dinar) literally means money written in Catalan (its official language), and cèntims are also cents in that language.

When the Euro arrived, Andorra reached an agreement (like other small European states—the Vatican City, San Marino, and Monaco), despite not being in the Eurozone, to use and issue its own Euro coins.

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King

In this case, because Andorra is a Principality and it’s official currency was that of its two land neighbours France and / or Spain - so the French Franc or the Spanish Peseta. I really can’t remember or be bothered to find out which one or if both were excepted, and I can’t remember. But the point is the Andorra minted coins were just minted for collectors and weren’t circulating. Now they use the Euro even thought they are not in the Eurozone.

So to sum up; collector coins are just minted for collectors and are not circulating or legal currency.

Hello, as you rightly say, Andorra used the French Franc and, I believe to a greater extent, the Spanish Peseta. Both were used equally in Andorra before the introduction of the Euro in these two countries.

At the same time, the Andorran government issued its own non-circulating currency (collector coins in Numista), the Andorran Diner, divided into 100 Cèntims, for collectors' purposes only. Diner (not to be confused with Dinar) literally means money written in Catalan (its official language), and cèntims are also cents in that language.

When the Euro arrived, Andorra reached an agreement (like other small European states—the Vatican City, San Marino, and Monaco), despite not being in the Eurozone, to use and issue its own Euro coins.

👍 so it was both, I knew I wasn’t just making that up. It has been a very long time since I’ve been…