Pirate Guide to Collecting Australian Coins DIGITAL eBook 2024-2025 edition

Welcome to your Portable Treasure Map for Australian Coins!

The digital Pirate Guide to Collecting Australian Coins is an eBook that you can access on your phone, computer or tablet. It shows you ALL Australian decimal coins currently in circulation, including the latest coloured $2 coins.

It allows you zoom in on coin photos so you can easily compare them to your coins when checking for errors, varieties and mintmarks.

Even better, it gets updated during the next year with new coins. 

Benefits of the Pirate Guide eBook:

• High-quality Coin Images: There are high-resolution photos of all the coins in circulation plus errors to look for, allowing you can see and appreciate all the details.
• Zoom In for Clarity: As the photos are high-resolution, you can zoom in to see fine details and compare them with your coins to check for errors.
• Portable Coin Guidance: Carry your digital Pirate Guide with you on your phone or tablet, so you can check coins when you're out and about.
• Identify Valuable Error Coins: Learn to spot rare error coins that could be worth significantly more than their face value.
  
• Immediate Access: The book is digital (PDF), so you can download it straight away.
• Free updates until the end of 2025:
  The digital Pirate Guide gets updated throughout the next year after major releases of circulated coins, along with a final update after the Royal Australian Mint releases the coin mintages late next year. You will receive an email whenever a new version is available to download.

What's included in the Pirate Guide:

The Pirate Guide to Collecting Australian Coins (digital version) lists all Australian decimal coins currently in circulation, including the coloured $2 coins released by Woolworths, Australia Post and Anaconda.

There are large, high-quality images of the actual coins, so you can see exactly what to look for, plus mintages so you know which coins are rarest. With this digital/eBook version, you can zoom in on the photos of the coins to see more detail.

This book covers every Australian coin released into circulation by the Royal Australian Mint from 1966 to now with a chapter for each denomination: $2, $1, 50c, 20c, 10c, 5c, 2c and 1c.

Each chapter has:

• High quality photos of every coin design in circulation since 1966
• Latest mintage/rarity for each coin (where it has been revealed)
  
• Scoreboards comparing the mintages for the coins with special designs
• Obverse designs for all coins, including important information on the various designs to look for
• Valuable errors, varieties and mintmarks unique to specific coins, including how to spot them!

The Two Dollar chapter includes details of the following special releases from Woolworths and Anaconda (with photos and mintage details):

• 2016 Olympics set
• 2017 Possum Magic set
• 2018 Commonwealth Games set
• 2019 Mr Squiggle set
• 2019 Wallabies coin
• 2020 Women’s Cricket coin
• 2020/21 Olympics set
• 2021 Wiggles set
• 2022 Commonwealth Games A/U/S set
• 2022 Socceroos coin
• 2023 Vegemite set
• 2023 Matildas set
• 2024 NRL set
• 2024 Olympics set

The Two Dollar chapter also includes photos of coins that were released with a C-Mintmark and how to spot them.

The One Dollar chapter includes details of the following special releases from Australia Post:

• Alphabet series from 2019, 2021 and 2022
• 2022 Dinosaur set
  
• 2023 Aussie Big Things set
• 2023 and 2024 AFL sets
• 2024 Bluey Dollarbuck set
  

Valuable error coins to look for:
In addition to photos of the coins, there are sections on errors and varieties unique to each coin, including the Mule Errors from the dollar coin, the valuable "alien" die clash error (and many others) plus how to identify these errors/varieties.

Obverse designs
This edition includes more details on the all of the various effigies of Queen Elizabeth II and King Charles III over the years, variations in the designs, along with Heads side-related errors to watch out for.

Multiple Files
As the images are high-resolution, the book is broken into multiple PDF files to make it easier to download.

Each PDF section contains a contents page with hyperlinks and reference notes relevant to each denomination.

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This information is really hard to find in one place, especially with photos of the actual coins. This book collects all the information on decimal coins in circulation together for you, which makes it perfect for noodling.

This is the ideal eBook for beginners and seasoned collectors alike. Click 'Add to cart' to grab your copy.

**Please note this is a digital book (eBook) available for download immediately after purchase.

• If you would like to order the paperback book: please click here,
  
• You can purchase both the digital and paperback books for a discounted price: please click here.
  

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