The new Renniks 33rd edition is here, and your old price guide is out of date

The Renniks Australian Coin and Banknote Values 33rd Edition has arrived at Mint Coin Shop. Softcover, $49.95.

If you collect Australian coins or banknotes, you already know Renniks. It has been the standard price guide in this country for decades. When a customer brings a jar of old pennies to the counter and asks what they are worth, this is the book we reach for.

The 33rd edition covers Australian coins and banknotes with current market valuations, and current matters. Values move. Everyone knows about the 1930 penny, but plenty of ordinary-looking coins have shifted in value over the past couple of years as collector interest picks up in particular dates and mint marks. Price from an edition that is three or four years old and you are guessing.

We see it in store. Someone sells a coin at a swap meet for what the old guide said, then finds out it had doubled. Or the reverse. They hang onto something ordinary because a dated listing made it look special. Either way, the book costs less than one of those mistakes.

New collectors probably get the most from it. Reading the listings teaches you what drives value, which is rarely what people expect. Age matters less than condition and scarcity. Dealers use it as their everyday benchmark. And if someone in your family has a tin of old coins in the shed and has always wondered, this solves their next birthday.

This edition is the softcover, made to be handled, flicked through and left open on the desk next to your collection.

Publisher: Renniks. Edition: 33rd. ISBN: 9780648793670. Price: $49.95.

Order online at Mint Coin Shop and we will get it to you promptly.