If you look at the standard 2015 $2 coin, the one with the Aboriginal elder on it, you’d yawn. Boring. But the uncirculated and “coloured” versions? Oh, they’re a party. They feature a red poppy in the center, flanked by the words “Lest We Forget.” The colour isn’t just paint slapped on there—it’s a minting wizardry called pad printing.
Here’s the kicker: they only made a few million of these in circulation, which sounds like a lot until you realize a billion boring coins exist. The colour version is basically the unicorn of spare change. People have found them in their spare change and sold them for $50 to $200 on eBay. Not bad for something that started as twenty-five cents’ worth of metal.
