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Did a bit of shopping at Morrisons and used the self service tills and in the change was one of the undated 20 pence error coins. 😀
I've been looking for one for a number of years but never thought I'd find one this late on.
Used to collect the pictorial special edition £2,£1, and 50p sets and completed them, which I then sold on ebay for a very healthy profit, and as a continuing hobby I collect any 'odd' coins or damaged during minting type of errors. Always felt those were a little bit more special.
Never thought I'd find an undated 20p and certainly not in a supermarket.
The undated error 20p sells for about £50, so it was a very good shopping day for me.
Next up...lottery numbers 😆
It drives me crazy sometimes thinking how many of these and similiar must have passed through my hands, especially back when I used to work for a bank, and I had no idea... I could have the penny black of £2 coins in my piggy bank right now but I'll end up using it to buy crack
I mean, healthy vegetables.
This is just one of those things that my brain can't compute at all.....a 20p coin is shirley only worth 20p?! If there was any doubt at all, they've handily written 20p on it a few times to clear up any doubt.
.a 20p coin is shirley only worth 20p?!
Just like a penny black is worth a penny.
20p coin is shirley only worth 20p?
If you could find some sucker who would pay you more would you take it? How would you value a penny black?
Just like a penny black is worth a penny.
Dammit, beaten to it. Shouldn’t you be in bed? 🙂
We had one of those gold £2 coins get paid into the shop a few years back.
Apparently worth good money. The one we followed on eBay sold for £1.99!
An associate of mine spent a large part of his life some decades ago visiting banks and swapping bank notes for large quantities of florins (2 shillings pieces later used as 10p).
He proceeded to search through them and pick out those coins minted before 1936.
1936 was when they stopped including silver in the alloy 😉
Needless to say they're worth far more than 10p.
a 20p coin is shirley only worth 20p?!
These days inflation et all, probably closer to 5p 😕
The thing about it is the rarity, and the fact it was produced in error, the error being theres no date as they use 2 dies and one was the incorrect die.
The mintage figures for a standard 20p coin is according to thew Royal Mint 740,815,000 which is a hell of a lot of coin. The error undated 20p has a mintage figure of 250,000, which is nothing really comparing the two. Of this number the RM do what they can to collect back in the error coins, some are lost or damaged beyond use which obviously brings the overall number down and increases the rarity of finding an undated one.
I've got some of the 50p coins with Paddington bear (Kew Gardens - think I've 2 of them) and Commonwealth Games on them...some of them apparently seem to be rare and could be worth a wee bit to collectors of these things, however, from what little research I did, it seems to be slightly dodgy selling the coin for more than it's face value so it needs to be sold as a collector's item of sorts, so you aren't selling the coin as such but more selling something that a collector would need to complete a collection.
Not really interested in that though, they look good and add a bit of ballast to my desk drawer!
it seems to be slightly dodgy selling the coin for more than it’s face value so it needs to be sold as a collector’s item of sorts
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The royal mint encourages collections of circulating decorative and commemorative coins, so you could suggest they unofficially approve of these coins in having a market value beyond their face value, and it's all understood that if popular, it drives up the price of lesser mintage coins.
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One of the rarest of the commemorative coins and highly collectable is the kew gardens 50p had 210,000 and the retail price tops £150 each, The royal mint makes collectors cases for you to store them in.
The cases are cheap on the royal mint site but are a finite supply, so when they run out, the price of the cases to keep the coins in, skyrockets. I've seen for eg the Commonwealth games cases go from £9.99 on RM site and within minutes of them selling out the price of £50 or more pretty quickly starts appearing on ebay.
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Never get into collecting sets of coins. It's really just too expensive.
