Has anyone seen little sets like this before?

I just got a whole box of these little coin sets. From what I understand they were made by a private company and sold in New Zealand and Australia in the 1970s. Each set has a coin or two coins from one country on a little card that gives a little information about the country and currency.

I've never seen them before, has anyone else come across these before? I now have a box of about 120 of them. They have different coloured cards which I assume was for higher and lower values

Yes, I quite often see 'factfile' coin 'postcards' with a stamp, some statistics and maybe a coin or banknote from a certain country implanted in it.

Those ones you have there are very interesting; being made in the 1970s, they contain some nicer coins than you might find from more modern 'sets'. I'm looking at the Jodhpur and Sind ones in particular; no one today would put that coin in a cheap 'set', to be sold to tourists or amateur collectors only doing it for a show-and-tell school project.

How much was 70 NZD cents and $1.10 from the 70's worth in today's money? Would they have been well priced coins or the equivalent of junk box finds back then?

Citeer: "CassTaylor"​How much was 70 NZD cents and $1.10 from the 70's worth in today's money? Would they have been well priced coins or the equivalent of junk box finds back then?

​A lot. I think they were pretty overpriced. I go by the popsicle test. Back in the early 80s when I was a kid you could buy a popsicle for 15 cents. The same thing now is about $1.20 so it's about 8 times more than back then. So 70c would be about $5.60 now and $1.10 would be about $8.80.

The coins vary, most of them are pretty run-of-the-mill worth 30-60 cents, but there are a few that are worth a couple of dollars each. They're mostly UNC except for the older coins, some of them are early 1900s, and I even found couple of silver coins that had been mistakenly listed as cu-ni

They did it a lot in the british isles and territories when decimalization occurred,
The royal mint also produced a similar coin wallet that contained the new designs and many companies got in on the market with more sets, from cheap to gold-plated.

Had a little bonus. One of the silvers was a New Zealand threepence. It was in a packet that said "1947-1964 - Cu-ni" but the coin was actually a silver 1941. I looked it up and apparently it is a key date

https://www.ngccoin.com/price-guide/world/new-zealand-3-pence-km-7-1937-1946-cuid-1081275-duid-1435220

Citeer: "neilithicman"​Had a little bonus. One of the silvers was a New Zealand threepence. It was in a packet that said "1947-1964 - Cu-ni" but the coin was actually a silver 1941. I looked it up and apparently it is a key date
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​https://www.ngccoin.com/price-guide/world/new-zealand-3-pence-km-7-1937-1946-cuid-1081275-duid-1435220

Great!
It always pays to have a good eye for treasure.​
I doubt they meant for that to slip in there!

There was one other silver that was the same, a 1934 threepence from britain in a pack that said c-ni, but that one wasn't worth quite so much, only a dollar or two.

Citeer: "neilithicman"​There was one other silver that was the same, a 1934 threepence from britain in a pack that said c-ni, but that one wasn't worth quite so much, only a dollar or two.

Still, a good bit of .500 scrap.
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Show us some more of the older, more expensive ones!

The Sind one in particular is a lovely old coin

Here are some more photos of these sets



(Photos are not mine)

Which company created these, also NZ based?

I don't really know. I don't see a company name on them.

Either way, fascinating packages.

@neil About the prices, those seem like relatively reasonable 2018 prices that I'd pay for some of those coins that I had my eye on earlier. How much did you pay to acquire them if I may ask?

Citeer: "CassTaylor"​Either way, fascinating packages.
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​@neil About the prices, those seem like relatively reasonable 2018 prices that I'd pay for some of those coins that I had my eye on earlier. How much did you pay to acquire them if I may ask?

​Not a lot. The guy I get them off doesn't deal in coins much so whenever he finds anything interesting he usually sends it my way for a decent price.

Since I'm not collecting anymore (Except for a few investment coins) I'm just getting them so I can have a fossick through them (since that's what I really liked about coin collecting) and then try to flick them on for a little profit.

We have a company in the US called Littleton that used to sell world couns cheap in little sulphur envelopes. Gorgeous toning by the way. Seems like almost everyone has a couple tucked away.

Oh sorry, you were asking for pics of the older and more expensive ones.

The vast majority of the coins are 1950s and 1960s but there are some older South American ones. The oldest are from Ecuador and Chile and are from 1918-1920



I haven't looked up the prices of them all, but I've looked up a couple and apart from the nice silver I found, the top ones seem to be worth a couple of dollars, and that's only because they're UNC. This Cambodian one is worth a couple of dollars in UNC

Citeer: "neilithicman"​Oh sorry, you were asking for pics of the older and more expensive ones.
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​The vast majority of the coins are 1950s and 1960s but there are some older South American ones. The oldest are from Ecuador and Chile and are from 1918-1920
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​I haven't looked up the prices of them all, but I've looked up a couple and apart from the nice silver I found, the top ones seem to be worth a couple of dollars, and that's only because they're UNC. This Cambodian one is worth a couple of dollars in UNC
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Very cool!​
I have a few museum packs with pre-decimal coins like this.