Planets of the solar system pop-up book

[seedyrom]

Thanks for the honest feedback.

I haven't totally given up on the set, and having received  the November Mint Issue, was trying to convince myself that I have recently bought medals from the US Mint, so maybe I shouldn't be so harsh on this set.
But for me, as neat as the packaging might be as a novelty ... the price point definitely pitches this at the serious collector, but the packaging detracts from access to the coins.

This set really frustrates me.

[Goldseeker]

To have packaging that is something like 8 x A4 pages size, once it is laid out and folded out, it is rather large.   Quite thick as well.

For those that bought the Olympic Coins or Commonwealth Games sets then that is the size of this lot.

Storage then becomes a HUGE problem.

Further, one cannot see the obverse of the coin(s) so are they 2017 or 2018 coins.

Hmm, the pop up folder has had a lot of work put into it but who will want to leave the folder out for people to view 24 hours a day.   And if one does open the folder completely out, for goodness sake don't lose the FOLD UP Instructional Manual that comes with each set.

[brismike]

Just got mine ... Goldseeker ... They are 2017 dated coins. The book is rather large but the coins are encapsulated in the cheaper plastic holders that the RAM uses. They are also very easy to remove from the book without taking them out of the plastic holders. No damage to the book when taking them out either. You just slide out the cardboard holder then slide out the coin in the capsule.

The 50 cent is not round as I mentioned in an earlier post. It looks to be round but when you see it close up it is actually 12 sided. <<<<<<<< Correction in next post!

They are very nice coins, but as mentioned it is very expensive. If only they had released them in a cheaper pack without all the crap they could have done it for half the price.

Cheers Mike

[brismike]

CORRECTION ..... The Planetary 50 cent coin is NOT 12 sided. It is in fact round. The RAM have placed it in a normal 12 sided 50 cent plastic holder that has 12 sides to it. So when you look at the coin in the holder it very deceptively appears to have 12 sides. When you pop it out of the holder as I did to take a photo, you see that it is very round, with completely smooth sides.

Cheers Mike

[kchan1111]

The colour $2 Mars coin is getting $70 on ebay.

https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Australia-2017-2-MARS-coin-from-RAM-Planetary-Coins-Collection-UNC/142576500673?hash=item213238bfc1:g:nPEAAOSw-wJaB4QJ

Buy a set and break it up.

[seedyrom]

Madness??!?

This is AUSTRALIAAAAAAAA!!!

[seedyrom]

So I've got no idea what is going on with this set. I stand by everything I previously said in this thread, but I've just received an email from Max Stern offering an Australian 2017 Planetary/Solar System 10-Coin Collection for the bargain price of $5,850.
This is an unopened set, so it's not like they've been graded as MS70 or anything.
I remember when it got to the point these sets were being heavily discounted because they weren't moving. Stupid safe fillers.

[gweidion]

It's a bit like the 30th Anniversary of $2 set of 12 coins. $75 on issue, I ended up getting two because I wasn't happy with the first one. Now around $500. Nuts?
And the latest coloured poppy $2. I sold one of my three for $230 odd. Why? Speculators and FOMO. Craziness.
A couple of years after they stop issuing coins they will be $15 again because no one will want to collect coins any more.

[Mister T]

Crazy.

[Billenben]

I am not following why Mars is worth so much if the coins are all 10,000 mintage.

[jens coins]

The coloured $2 coin craze is what is driving the price up.
If you want a complete set of the $2 coins then you have to have this coin.
Similar to the 2018 $2 30th Anniversary 12 coin set is crazy as well.

[redlock]

The coloured $2 coin craze is what is driving the price up.
If you want a complete set of the $2 coins then you have to have this coin.

Okay. Yet, it does not explain why the Mars coin is more expensive than the rest -- if all coins of the set have the same mintage number :s

[Tanecoins]

Why is this set worth so much?

Yes its nice and I would love one, but I have only seen one for $6,000.

Seriously why is it so expensive?

[Sapyx]

The irrationalities of fad and fashion - humans are weird creatures. If coin collectors were coldly logical and rational, then we wouldn't need coin catalogues, we could predict what price a coin should be just by plugging the date and mintage into an algorithm.

Collectors in their collective wisdom have decided that the $2 Mars coin is "essential" in order to own a complete $2 coin set. So people pay big bucks to buy it, just so their "coloured $2 coin set" can become complete because few people are breaking up the sets to sell the coins separately. Yet when they buy the set, they're reluctant to split it up and put the $2 Mars coin with their other $2 coins, simply because they'd paid so much for the set (and "it looks so nice"). And so the cycle continues.

Perhaps the most illogical aspect of this phenomenon is that they've chosen to do this with the set which probably has the most bulky and awkward packaging of any Australian coin set. I suppose it discourages hoarding, simply on the grounds that nobody's got the spare space to store too many of them.

Yet there are a tiny number of these sets that have been broken up. I own a Venus 2 cents, bought at a coin club auction in July 2018 for $10. It's just sitting in a 2x2 along with the rest of my modern Australians. Someone obviously cut up one of these sets back when they were still fresh and cheap, perhaps just wanting one or two of the coins, and sold the rest.