When you search, click Options and then pull down the Coin Type dropdown and uncheck "non circulating". Your search options are also retained when you do a "quick search" in the search bar at the top of the page.
Sometimes the division into circulating and non-circulating coins is wrong. For example, all of big 1 peso coins 1960s-1980s of the Dominican Republic with very small mintages were in circulation. I found them in circulated condition inside the country. Previously they were all marked as non-circulating, and I had to change that.
On the other hand, Russian "Red Book" series of 1991-1994 look like coins for circulation, but they never circulated and were not intended for that. But Krause included them into "Collecting world coins" catalogs.
Who knows how many similar errors still exist in Numista catalog...
I've noticed that myself, I guess it may be near impossible to be 100% accurate. With me though I don't really consider it a coin unless it was intended to be used as a coin. Proofs, sets only etc. are more like tokens in my eyes.
Cita: "Dav1d88"With me though I don't really consider it a coin unless it was intended to be used as a coin. Proofs, sets only etc. are more like tokens in my eyes.
Obviously a commemorative coin. Issued at face value although that value was commonly used as banknotes. It was occasionally used for payments (18 grams of pure silver did not exceed 10 Gulden until the late 70's) but most were used to collect. I don't collect these types of coins but I find them more legitimate than any 'coin' that's sold for more than face value.
Some of the odd-denominated euro commemoratives were issued at face value. Supposedly a few even circulated.
Canadian "$20 for $20" series (and a few similar ones) met all the definitions of circulating coins except for actually circulating, which they almost never did (since most shops did not accept them).
Some British series are still issued at face value, but their "circulation" is so extremely limited that even banks don't accept them (outside of some very narrow circumstances that are unlikely to ever come up).
I've never seen a Sochi 25 ruble coin in circulation. Supposedly some were, in fact, officially released for face value (and might briefly have circulated). Should they count?
It's a more complicated question than it seems (and it gets even more complicated for older coins, when there might not necessarily be modern witnesses who remember whether the coins circulated or not).
Incidentally, anyone knows what was the first (known) coin ever issued with an inappropriately low denomination?
Aside from assorted gold/silver strikes of less precious types, obviously (those had been around for many centuries).
Cita: "January First-of-May"Incidentally, anyone knows what was the first (known) coin ever issued with an inappropriately low denomination?
Aside from assorted gold/silver strikes of less precious types, obviously (those had been around for many centuries).
Good question. I think that it all started in countries that were producing too many commemorative coins, and at some point decided to make some "special commemoratives" only for the elite or for foreigners. For example, in the USSR it started in 1977 with big silver and gold "coins" for the olympic games (Moscow-1980).
I think this NCLT practice really started rolling with the Nixon Shock in 1971, abandoning the US Dollar from the gold standard and therefore causing all kinds of currencies going on the loose and heightened inflation for another 10 to 15 years on a global scale. This development boosted the popularity of coin collecting among wider audiences. Some were just speculating on prices of gold and silver, others just desperate to preserve wealth.
Browsing through 'the usual suspects' of NCLT countries I found these coins from the early days: UK 25 Pence 1972 in silver:
Was not issued at face value but in 1967 20 Dollars could still officially buy this amount of gold. No idea at what price these gold coins were first sold at. Of course Isle of Man pulled it off in 1965 with this heavy £5 gold coin:
In 1965 a Troy Ounce of gold was worth $35 or £12.5. This coin was worth almost £15 in gold and its mintage was only 500.
But from the early to mid-seventies a huge amount of crap started coming from the mints, especially from British dependencies. This is why Elizabeth II's second portrait by Arnold Machin is probably the most frequently used royal effigy on coin types. His design lasted from 1966 until 1989, an era of huge expansion in NCLT's.
Quote: "Dav1d88"With me though I don't really consider it a coin unless it was intended to be used as a coin. Proofs, sets only etc. are more like tokens in my eyes.
Quote: "Dav1d88"With me though I don't really consider it a coin unless it was intended to be used as a coin. Proofs, sets only etc. are more like tokens in my eyes.
