Cheers Norm. I still haven’t had any 10 coins either. Mrs P found x3 last year all in one go but nowt since. I suspect that people are keeping them when they find them for collecting adding to their scarcity. Their value will probably go up in future years because of this. I got all mine from both the Royal Mint and Change checker. Cost a bloody fortune.mad norm wrote:Sound post Pemba thanks for your updates
Still to find any alphabet 10 pences in what change I do get
Morning mate. Quite agree. The £2 coin is my favourite. There are 37 varieties of this coin in general circulation. 50+ if you count the oddities in the £2 technology coin. It’s a good coin imo. I would like to see the RM issue a £5 coin for general circulation. They do them already but they are commemorative coins only and not legal tender. Perhaps it is a cost issue.Frank Nouble 3 wrote:Morning mate.pembsexile wrote:News today that the Royal Mint has no plans to produce any more 2p or £2 coins for the next 10 years! The demand for cash has reduced significantly in the past year and even COVID has had an effect on this. I can’t see any way that it is going to get better in the long term as we move towards a cashless society using cards more often.
The main groups affected are low income groups and the elderly who tend to use cash more often. It’s sad, but seems there is nothing we can do about it.
I suspect that it will actually get worse as collectors start to hoard coins making them even more scarce. We haven’t actually had a £2 coin issued for general circulation since 2017. They have been made available in annual sets though. Watch the value of these £2 set coins rocket in future weeks. If you see a £2 coin post 2017 it will have been stripped from an annual set. It’s value will also increase.
For each coin in circulation, there are 26 times more coins available than would normally be for issuing when they are needed. It doesn’t seem like that will happen.
I still do not understand why £2 coins are so limited.
I would of thought that coin was the most useful with its high value.
The times I have bought something for a few pound and only had a tenner to be told "no fivers and no £2 coins available here so you gete 6/7/8 £1 coins instead in your change.
No, sorry, don’t know what the odds are but some smart Alec could work it out (not me). I think if it is a seven figure number it is 1x2x3x4 etc to give you the individual odds. May be wrong though.jonescmj1 wrote:Does any body know the odds on getting sequential 2's, 3's and 4's of different bank notes?
Colin
I don’t think the old 10p coins are worth much at the moment. I’d hang on to them as they may rise in value in future years.neilcork68 wrote:I have collected a 2007 Abolition of slavery and a William Shakespeare £2 coins.....worth anything ????
I also have a bag of about £5 in OLD 10p coins gathering dust in a draw...
Pity, that’s the histories one. Worth about £4/5.neilcork68 wrote:It's the sword and crown one
Now, that Britannia coin could be interesting. As I have said previously, the way to check if a coin is fake is to hold it up with the Queens head being vertical. Then, spin the coin through 180 degrees to show the reverse side. Whatever is on the opposite side, it should also be vertical as well. If it’s not, it is a fake.neilcork68 wrote:I also have a 2016 Roman Britannia portrait £2 coin my son gave me this morning ...
I need to get out more as I am scanning every single coin I have in jars or get whilst out.
Shops don't like it but I am still paying cash for quite a few things rather than card..
It's good though because I went months not getting a single two pound coin but I have had about twenty in the last few weeks , hence finding some of the coins I have listed
Excellent. I hope it is genuine.neilcork68 wrote:Just checked the coin..it's a 2016 , the Britannia head is at the angle you say .
I hope it's not a fake so will indeed contact the Royal Mint to seek advice on its authenticity.....
Glad you like the hobby, it’s fascinating imo.neilcork68 wrote:CHECK YOUR CHANGE AND ALL COINS PEOPLE
Since getting into it through this topic I have found at least half a dozen 'rare' and hopefully with two coins , valuable coins.
I hope the £2 Britannia coin is genuine and the 1982 2p New pence coin I have are worth something....
I also have at least a dozen 50p coins worth at least double their value and I am still going through my tins/ saving jars
Sorry, don’t really understand what you mean. If they are ladder numbers eg 11,22,33 etc they will be worth something to collectors. If by consecutive you mean follow on numbers, unless they have a ladder sequence or contain a birthday sequence of a famous person hidden within the numbers they won’t be worth anything.jonescmj1 wrote:I have two consecutive $50.00 notes in mint condition, times two sets, two consecutive $100 biils mint condition two lots of two consecutive $20 in mint condition. A couple of these from the same machine the others from random machines. Do they have any collectors value? How should I store them?
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