Your 2025 New Year's Coin & Banknote Goals

I know it's not quite the New Year yet, but I was wondering if anyone has any dreams, goals, targets or whatever you want to call it for their coin/banknote collection in 2025, and would like to share them.

Feel free to share any non-coin related goals too.

For me, I'm going to try & get all of the Series A Bank of England notes, seek to replace two damaged notes from Series B/C, get my only missing Series E, and finally visit a bank to get a Charles £50. That should mean my Bank of England notes will be completed from 1928 right up to present. Earlier notes exist, but Series A were the first double-sided notes.

Beyond that, I'm going to try and expand on my Scottish banknotes particularly from the 70s-80s, as well as expand on my circulating coins & maybe some low value notes from the Crown Dependencies / Overseas Territories (e.g. Jersey, Gibraltar etc).

And as always, keep pulling as many commemoratives as I can from circulation. Maybe I'll get lucky and get the final few I need. 🤞

I wish everyone the best for 2025 when it comes. 🙂

My goal for the new year is to get a gold coin,  as I have none currently.

My collector goals really haven't changed much: I want to downsize my World collection (sell or trade some of my banknote doubles) which is a goal I set back in 2022 (for 2023).  I also wish to fill some gaps in my Bank of Canada collection (specific denominations for my 1935 & 1954 Devil's Face sets).

I asked the same question back on this 2022 thread.

In retrospect:

I wanted to attend at least one coin show in 2023.   A year later, I got around to doing that at the beginning of this month (December 2nd).  Two friends went "along for the ride" but we didn't get there till a bit late in the day (& they weren't into banknotes but more into stamps/other collectibles). It was a small (& bit disappointing) bourse but at least I went & saw what was being offered.  I also updated my Canadian Charlton catalogue guide (which I typically do once every 5 or more years).   

Happy New Year to all those collectors!

33DoubleEagle - ooh, exciting! Got your eyes on anything particular (or a shortlist)? Or is it more, “I'll see what jumps out when I'm in a shop” thing?

I'm guessing your namesake probably won't be it! 😛 

My only gold coins are two tiny things with dinosaurs on from Liberia. Don't even think they're listed on Numista (I know, I keep meaning to add them 🙄). Got them in a bag of random coins from a charity shop.

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Serial_Number_8 - totally get that. Sometimes you have to downsize so you can specialise. Good luck with the Devil's Head notes. Never even seen one this side of the Atlantic, but I've heard of them being “infamous”. 😛

They're a fun set I would consider for my curios side of the collection (at least, the cheaper notes anyway).

Hopefully your next visit to a coin & banknote show is a bit more successful. 🙂

33doubleeagle

My goal for the new year is to get a gold coin,  as I have none currently.

Same Here 😅

My 2025 goal is quite simple: to find as many as possible out of 3900 coins/exo I'm still missing 😊

Happy Newmismatic Year to all !!

For those looking for an affordable gold coin, you may want to consider the indian fanam.

In Serial_Number_8's 2022 thread I had pointed out I was quite unhappy with existing coin albums. I may have found the solution but have yet to put it to the test in 2025. I'll use high-quality paper-money pages (three pockets per page) and insert an acid-free rectangular piece of cardboard with holes for each denomination. If it works, all my Canadian coins will be organized like year sets while notes will be organized by signatures, i.e. by periods.

I have just moved to a new place and, once my office is set up, I should finally be able to organize my collection and upload my swap list on Numista. Quite a few quality items, including Canadian coins, modern American and Israeli medals, exonumia, etc.

Agree for the fanam as affordable gold, but if you really want to spend a bit more and get some convertible gold, you can not go past Gold sovereigns, yes they are around US$600 each at moment, but you have an iconic coin, historical in some cases - glut of post 1980 stuff, aim for a pre 1915 piece - still not much above melt, nice design, decent hunk of gold and they are very popular. Selling them for at least melt is never an issue. Otherwise lots of 1/25, 1/30 and 1/40 ounce bullion coins too - just be careful, some of them attract massive premiums over gold price and given gold's density - you don't get very much of the stuff for your money. Aim for at least 90% purity or even .9999 if you can. 

I say this as there is a lot of budget Frankline mint and Pojoby mint stuff from places like Seychelles, Cook Islands, Nupe etc - which is only 14 carat or .585 gold, which in my opinion is not gold enough and its copper or bronze as an alloy, so the coin doesn't even look gold. Also avoid gold plated stuff, lots of it deceptively sold through 3rd and 4th party mints. Usually its plated copper or some cheap metal like German or Nickel silver, which is NOT silver and just cheap muck metal. Avoid all gold banknotes, except goldbacks - and even these have trace gold in them.

Not that much really - 2023 and last year were years of great expansion, into collecting new countries and types (Canada, USA, Latin Monetary Union etc), but 2025 will be consolidation and filling some nagging gaps.

The gaps are biggies like a New Zealand Reserve Bank £50 note (At least $5,000 and so rare, a book on NZ banknotes has details of every surviving example!). Also a Series C $100 note (Only issued in 1967 and 1975 and just 500k issued in total, its a $1,000 + item)

For coins, I am happy with getting a Waitangi Crown (Another very rare and expensive item)

And completing or getting more examples of British date run coins from 1816 onwards and earlier examples.

Unless I find those notes and the Crown, the amount spent this year will be a lot less. Have to focus on buying a house more.

Quite a few people looking for gold this year! Agree with Moneytane about the sovereign being (just about) the most beautiful of the historic ones.

If you can't afford a full sovereign, half ones exist too. 🙂

Camerinvs - hope your reorganisation goes well. Sounds like a solid plan. Think I've rejigged my collection three times before I settled on my current setup (which I really like).

Moneytane - gosh, you've got some expensive tastes! Some lovely designs though, and historic pieces in their own right. Good luck with the house and/or the rarities.

My goal has been almost the same for the last 60 years: to get to all the circulating coins of the world.

However, when the collection started to grow, it was challenging to store and manage it, so I decided to collect by type, not by the year.

After that, I decided to stick to the coins for the years 1900 and 2000.

Now I hope to cover all the countries and issuers, and as the final goal a coin for each type.

A minimal goal is to reach 5000 different types.

Perhaps I'd like to grow my collection of British copper and silver. I'd also get more modern Asian banknotes. We'll see how the market fluctuates this year in terms of gold and silver price.

A Collector

33DoubleEagle - ooh, exciting! Got your eyes on anything particular (or a shortlist)? Or is it more, “I'll see what jumps out when I'm in a shop” thing?

I'm guessing your namesake probably won't be it! 😛 

 

 

I am  looking for any really, preferably from a new issuer though. Also  it would have to be in my budget.