I think except Mexico, there where no freshly minted circulating silver coins in the last 30-40 years.
So I'm pretty sure that every coin from this query should be a ‘non-circulating coin’ instead of a ‘circulating commemorative coin’, except the coins from Mexico
As long as you could get a commemorative for face at a bank or post office etc. we count it as a CC, if it's just a state backed bullion with way higher intrinsic value at the time of release than face we count it as just a numismatic product.
As long as you could get a commemorative for face at a bank or post office etc. we count it as a CC, if it's just a state backed bullion with way higher intrinsic value at the time of release than face we count it as just a numismatic product.
I know that the Uruguayan coins are the latter. I believe that the Spanish and Portuguese are as well, although I am less sure.
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I think except Mexico, there where no freshly minted circulating silver coins in the last 30-40 years.
So I'm pretty sure that every coin from this query should be a ‘non-circulating coin’ instead of a ‘circulating commemorative coin’, except the coins from Mexico
I think the 30 Australian silver coins of 2022 are no circulating commemorative coins.
11.66 g silver is by far more expensive than 1 Australian dollar.
Something else:
In the Netherlands we also have official 5 euro coins that are according to our National Bank is “an official means of Payment”. You can buy them for 5 euro, so that would qualify for “As long as you could get a commemorative for face at a bank or post office etc. we count it as a CC”. Trouble is that no shop accepts them and in other euro countries it is NOT an official means of Payment. Unlike for example the 2 euro coins. Question is a Dutch 5 euro coin a cc or a numismatic product :-)
I think except Mexico, there where no freshly minted circulating silver coins in the last 30-40 years.
So I'm pretty sure that every coin from this query should be a ‘non-circulating coin’ instead of a ‘circulating commemorative coin’, except the coins from Mexico
French coins in your list, issued in 1980s and 1990s, were circulating indeed. I remember it :-)
I was young but I still remember my mother get paid at her shop with some of those. She was first not really confident but a simple call to her bank confirmed her that it was legal tender, after this first surprise she was paid 2 or 3 time more in 5 years…