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Preferably one without a date stamped on it.
Apparently there are 2000,000 twenty pence coins out there that have no date stamped on them and one sold on e-bay for a staggering £5800
Check down your sofa`s folks.
Unbelievable.
I’ve got a pound coin here, and I’m only looking for a monkey for it.
Apparently there are 2000,000 twenty pence coins out there that have no date stamped on them and one sold on e-bay for a staggering £5800
.To put this wacko-jacko sum into perspective and to highlight how ridiculous it is: the 1950 and 1951 pennies had official mintages of 120,000 and 240,000 respectively and the current market price to collectors is about £20 each in uncirculated condition and between about £3 and £15 in circulated conditions. And there are numerous examples of Victorian coins with mintages of less than half a million worth today but a small fraction of five grand. FFS
Finding one of the 200,000 dateless 20pees may well have curiousity value but a route to riches it certainly won’t be. Infact I’d bite off the hand of the unwise folk at The London Mint Office for their kind offer of £50 for one. It won’t last.
I have an anorak for every occasion Mate, this bronze-hued one worn when admiring the little collection of pennies I’ve had since boyhood and while perusing a 2003 ‘Coin Yearbook’ bought in the hope I was sitting on a mint (pun intended).
Only to find to my dismay their value hadn’t even kept up with inflation and would have been better spent on bubblegum and gobstoppers in 1965 while still legal tender.
The old Denarii were handsome coins though and are a pleasure to own.
Crikey; I’ve got a tin here with all sorts of old coins in
. just going to check the pennys….
I have an anorak for every occasion Mate, this bronze-hued one worn when admiring the little collection of pennies I’ve had since boyhood and while perusing a 2003 ‘Coin Yearbook’ bought in the hope I was sitting on a mint (pun intended).
Only to find to my dismay their value hadn’t even kept up with inflation and would have been better spent on bubblegum and gobstoppers in 1965 while still legal tender.
The old Denarii were handsome coins though and are a pleasure to own.
The joys of growing up in a pre-decimal age – going through the loose change looking for the rare ones.
I used to love collecting Victorian pennies and half-pennies.
As you so quaintly put it the old Denarii were fantastic coins.
From the old threepenny bit and the forever missed half-crown.
All these years later I still have my collection.
I remember what I was about six I was sent out to do some shopping and I lost a 10/- note (50p to the youngsters here) – I was almost killed for doing that – probably the equivalent of losing a £20 nowadays. I still remember to this day how upset my parents were – it was a lot of money to them.
Just been looking at some of the Victorian pennies and it got me thinking of all the people that had held them; all the pockets and purses they had inhabited……when I was a kid I used to collect threepenny bits
…I’ve still got the little yellow jar that I used to save them in [ It was at one time a dripping jar…anyone remember dripping???].
when I was a kid I used to collect threepenny bits
…a girl would wouldn’t she?
snigger, giggle
http://www.souvenirantiques.co.uk/mod_coins.JPG
For the benefit of the younger members who wonder what us oldies are on about – these are the "real" coins from our youth.
From top to bottom, left to right
Half Crown or 2/6 , Florin or 2/-, Shilling
Sixpence, silver threepence, threepenny bit
Penny, halfpenny and farthing (which was a 1/4 penny)
Very nice too.
I wonder if coins will be allowed to remain in circulation now until as worn as the shilling and halfpenny in the photo?
It seems doubtful the preponderance of coin-fed machines about today would recognise them in such a condition.
Like you I used to enjoy receiving nearly worn-flat Victorian pennies in my change. I still have an 1876 found in the early ’60s on which virtually only the recessed date is recognisable.
My parents, bless ’em, would also check their change to satisfy my craving.
Lovely to see those old coins. I remember once finding a crisp ten bob note in a birthday card from my favourite auntie and feeling immensely rich (it was summer 1970, so naturally I blew most of it on a football, and packet after packet of Mexico 1970 Soccer Stars, probably in pursuit of a few obscure El Salvadorians, Uruguayans and Bulgarians).
I had an uncle who was an inveterate hoarder of old coins – he had thousands of the things, kept protectively in an old brown suitcase under his bed. I seem to remember he had several bizarrely optimistic theories about decimalisation and the potential increase in value of his cherished pile of coins.
I’ve found one of these undated 20p coins. When I saw that £5800 auction I briefly thought I might get a holiday out of it; I can’t be bothered with the hassle of working out how to sell on ebay now the going rate has fallen to about £200 (though that’s still surely way above what they’re worth).
I’ve found one of these undated 20p coins. When I saw that £5800 auction I briefly thought I might get a holiday out of it; I can’t be bothered with the hassle of working out how to sell on ebay now the going rate has fallen to about £200 (though that’s still surely way above what they’re worth).
Yeah, they’re probably only worth about 20p!
I’m keeping mine. I’ll cling to the hope that there are 300,000 affluent numismatists out there. I’ll strike when the ebayers run out of coins.
http://www.souvenirantiques.co.uk/mod_coins.JPG
For the benefit of the younger members who wonder what us oldies are on about – these are the "real" coins from our youth.
From top to bottom, left to right
Half Crown or 2/6 , Florin or 2/-, Shilling
Sixpence, silver threepence, threepenny bit
Penny, halfpenny and farthing (which was a 1/4 penny)
Paul, ah the joys of a tanner’s worth of chips on a Saturday night at Jimmy Bell’s (no relation) in Henry Street, Langholm. Like the coin long gone but happy days and half a crown could get you into the silver ring at Kelso with change.
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