pembsexile wrote: June 2nd, 2023, 12:44 pm It has just been announced that the Royal Mint will be issuing a special 2023 coin to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the NHS. No news yet whether it will go into general circulation though. it is only available from the RM or specialist coin sellers like change checker.

This is the third time in recent years that the Royal Mint has issued an NHS coin. Makes a change from all the Royalty coins and entertainment stuff. I’ll be buying this one.

There'll be a waiting list

mad norm wrote: June 3rd, 2023, 1:52 pm

pembsexile wrote: June 2nd, 2023, 12:44 pm It has just been announced that the Royal Mint will be issuing a special 2023 coin to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the NHS. No news yet whether it will go into general circulation though. it is only available from the RM or specialist coin sellers like change checker.

This is the third time in recent years that the Royal Mint has issued an NHS coin. Makes a change from all the Royalty coins and entertainment stuff. I’ll be buying this one.

There'll be a waiting list

Let's hope they STRIKE them correctly or they will be NURSING a hangover

The Royal Mint has just announced that there are still £9billion worth of old style £20 and £50 paper notes still not returned. They are no longer accepted for spending. They were discontinued last October. However, if you still have them, the High street Banks and the Post Office will exchange them for the new polymer notes. The Post Office will only exchange them up to a value of £300.

There was nothing in that BBC article speculating about where these notes might be. Perhaps lots of unlaundered cash sitting in lockups across the country?

For those who are interested, the Royal Mint has just announced the sale of a new brilliant uncirculated £5 coin to celebrate the England lionesses. It features the three lions on the obverse. This is the same design that was used on the old £1 coin and the design dates back to Richard the Lionheart. Costs £12.99 plus £2.99 p&p. Might be worthwhile for those interested as they will be removed from sale in August. Not for me though.

I have been saying for some time that due to the decreasing use of cash the numismatic value of coins will only go up. Well, that may be the case in the long term but in the short term it seems that is not the case.

The website ‘change checker’ has a tracking system which checks the average resale value of all the top valued coins currently in circulation. All of the major coins recently dropped in value and only one slightly increased. The Kew Gardens 50p went from a resale value of £169 to £148. That’s a big drop. The one that went up in value was the Olympic Games football 50p which went up in value from £14 to £14.50

I genuinely do not understand the numismatic resale market and can give no explanation as to how this has happened.

I’ve made a few comments on here about the commercial arm of the Royal Mint and the coins they are getting in circulation. There are now Star Wars commemorative coins being released to the public. Definitely not for me and just don’t get the relevance there. With that in mind they have just announced that a commemorative coin celebrating Dame Shirley Bassey will be released. I get that. At least she is real.

pembsexile wrote: July 23rd, 2023, 11:15 am I’ve made a few comments on here about the commercial arm of the Royal Mint and the coins they are getting in circulation. There are now Star Wars commemorative coins being released to the public. Definitely not for me and just don’t get the relevance there. With that in mind they have just announced that a commemorative coin celebrating Dame Shirley Bassey will be released. I get that. At least she is real.

And comes from near Newport

It is getting silly now with all the 'coin releases ' they are releasing.

Every milestone seems to herald a release of a new coin...
Some are worthy but things like Star Wars and Shirley Bassey aren't.IMO...A coin to commemorate a movie and a singer ???
Coronations, great achievements and Historical moments in the countries history is warranted but to celebrate a star or movie being of a certain age.....Not for me...

I’ve heard there will be a 50p coin issued to commemorate the day when Bangitintrnet doesn’t try to antagonise someone on this message board. The Royal Mint are trying to work out when that might happen.

neilcork68 wrote: July 23rd, 2023, 10:57 pm It is getting silly now with all the 'coin releases ' they are releasing.

Every milestone seems to herald a release of a new coin...
Some are worthy but things like Star Wars and Shirley Bassey aren't.IMO...A coin to commemorate a movie and a singer ???
Coronations, great achievements and Historical moments in the countries history is warranted but to celebrate a star or movie being of a certain age.....Not for me...

I wholeheartedly agree with the Star Wars comment. It is definitely not for me and I don’t think other collectors will bother either. The connection is tenuous, they say that the connection is that Star Wars was firstly filmed at Elstree studios UK with a British crew. However, so were a lot of other films.

It’s the commercial arm of the Royal Mint exerting their influence in making money for the company. By the way, a company it is, the oldest in the UK. Quite sad it has lost its way a little bit here. The ironic part is that whilst we seem to be moving to a near cashless society the numismatic value of coins (in the long term) seems to be going up. There are short term falls however.

DeePeeNCAFC wrote: July 23rd, 2023, 11:29 pm I’ve heard there will be a 50p coin issued to commemorate the day when Bangitintrnet doesn’t try to antagonise someone on this message board. The Royal Mint are trying to work out when that might happen.

An interesting new coin is about to be released by the Royal Mint. It is a £2 coin commemorating the mathematician Ada Lovelace, in the Innovation in Science category. It isn’t for general circulation but in my opinion is a far better addition than the coins that celebrate Star Wars and Royalty.

When you say "better", Mike, do you mean "likely to be more collectible/valuable"?

Does the Mint publish the volumes of special coins being manufactured?

JonD wrote: August 3rd, 2023, 7:34 am When you say "better", Mike, do you mean "likely to be more collectible/valuable"?

Does the Mint publish the volumes of special coins being manufactured?

I’ll answer your second point first Jon. For some reason the Royal Mint don’t publish mintage figures for a few years until after release. The last mintage figures for £2 coins were published for those coins released (not for general circulation) in 2019. The Royal Mint will issue a press release and then specialist coin collector sites will pick up the details and then publish them, normally in a table format.

For example, the famous Kew Gardens 50p was issued in 2009. It was considered a normal type coin at the time. Then, in 2012 the Royal Mint published the mintage figure for this coin at 210,000. This was incredibly low and the value of the coin (numismatically) went through the roof. Currently stands at about £140 ish.

To go to your first point. You cannot get commemorative coins in an uncirculated coin format. They are issued as brilliant uncirculated or proof. The quality is much better but you will pay for it. You can get these coins directly from the RM or specialist sites but you won’t get them in your change. So, my point is twofold. The numismatic value of the coin is higher and based on past value, collectors will pay more for coins of this quality. That makes it better imo. Secondly, on a personal basis I don’t like the Star Wars and Royalty type coins so I prefer to collect other RM coins. For me, they are better.

However, there are specialist Numismatists out there who actively mainly deal in Royalty type coins. That is for them, not me. Never heard of anyone collecting Star Wars coins though!

Long winded answer I know but I hope it makes sense.