I just do not usually buy Darkside coins, BUT..........

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BTW - I don't use my memory anymore. I have google on my iphone now.

 

Bought from a reputable dealer in original mint packaging with COA and other sales info.

 

The power of the Dark Side is incredibly strong. Perth Mint and the Royal Canadian mint produce some incredible designs that are spectacular engravings, and even better works of art. I think the colorizing is spectacular when done right, and Perth mint does an amazing job in most cases.

 

I am not sure we can call Canadian mint + Austria's Perth mint Dark side coins?there mint some very nice low mintage Gold +Silver coins.
Coin collecting with the internet maybe removes the Dark side noting.since you can order on the web.
But were would the China Panda Silver + Gold be called.
:smilehere a link that show Austria coin for this year:smile.
http://www.coinnews.net/tools/australian-coin-price-guide-information-prices-and-coin-photos/

 

Australia

Not o much spelling but misidentification

 

There goes my hope that this "Darkside" nonsense would be limited to few sites only. But the term seems to be more common among Americans than I thought.

Christian

 

Lighten up, dude. Don't get the knickers in a twist. It is a figure of speech, and not at all meant as offensive. American coins are awfully bland sometimes.

 

Not really. Just a few wiseguys, not that America is not far better than Europe, and New York better than America and Brooklyn better than New York and so on...

 

Everytime I see your thread title, I think of the most interesting man in the world.

 

Catch 22, hm? The term is supposedly humorous, thus anybody who does not find it so amusing has no sense of humor. Ah well, at least our collective reputation is like that anyway, so I have nothing to lose here.

(Besides, New York is not America anyway. Nor is California; have heard that quite a few times, hehe.)

Christian

 

With the slim number of US coin designs that there are, and how ugly so many of them are, and add to that the seated liberty which is really a British design, it shouldn't take thinking people so long to get real bored of US coinage. Its about as exciting as toothpaste after a while. I hate nothing more than the Washington Quarter.

 

Well, I do collect (modern) US coins but do not focus on them. And of course coins from other countries can be dull or attractive too. We all just pick the best ones ...

(And now, bye - wait until I get up in the morning. Then you'll be in the dark. )

Christian

 

I'll be up at midnight. Out of work.

 

lol...just an ironic musing.

 

Why? Because I mentioned on another thread that Pandas are easy to counterfeit? That hasn't changed. Australian "coloured" coins are extremely difficult to counterfeit.

 

Brooklyn better than New York? Is that why the Dodgers left for Los Angeles?

 

This makes me wonder. Why are foreign coins known as "dark side" coins anyway? I have both US and non-US coins, but as posters above have said, it's easy to get bored with just one country, even if it is my own. The coin show I go to near me is almost exclusively US - there are just two foreign/historical dealers, and they're the only ones I deal with now since I have plenty of US coins by now.

 

I'm here Chris!

 

So am I. And it is not dark here at all.

Christian