With a capital R that's Spanish for Royale Visit and wouldn't be misconstrued for Real Visit. The Spanish word Real doubling up for real and royal.
Anyway so Chuck baby, the head of State of Australia. I've purchased a $2 coin, a $1 coin and a 5 cent coin with Chuck's mug on them. I paid more than the actual currency value as they are relatively rare. So for the $2 I paid six times the rate. And six times the rate for the $1.
There were also one and two cent coins for sale which were long ago phased out. Australia is such a new country with such a large proportion of foreigners and foreign born folks or folks like me born here to foreigners and with a foreign wife (in my case). So they wouldn't remember we even had paper cash before plastic or one and two cent coins.
I also purchased two limited edition 'Wiggles' $2 coins.
Some of these purchases really pay off long term. My father bought a 1983 gold coin for around $100 and I sold it for around quadruple that. But that's mostly because gold appreciated that much in forty years.
It's worth mentioning in the Spanish/Italian deck we have gold coins as one of the suits. Was listening to Italian radio like yesterday while dropping kids at school, fairly easy for Spaniards to understand the Italian, a lot of it.
“Or suppose a woman has ten silver coins and loses one. Doesn’t she light a lamp, sweep the house and search carefully until she finds it? And when she finds it, she calls her friends and neighbours together and says, ‘Rejoice with me; I have found my lost coin.” Luke 15:8-9
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