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The Royal Mint has now released the mintages for the strike your own coins for 2019, which means we aren’t far from 2020 figures. Make what you will of it of regarding the politics, design of the coin, business model of the Mint, but there are two strike your owns for the Brexit 50p. Those done for two weeks in February and one for 31/01/20 - random Friday not in school holidays. The Harry and Meghan wedding coin (for one day only) had a mintage of 508 whilst the Snowman 50p had a mintage of 700 and ran throughout December! Both attract decent sale prices on the Bay! I’m guessing when the Brexit 50p mintage figure is announced we’ll have similarly pretty low figures! You can currently pick them up for between £15 and £25. DYOR

Holy s**t! Mintage figures are released! Over 6k for the on the day! I misjudged that somewhat

You’ve clearly gone to quite considerable efforts - £1k worth of 5p pieces equates to sampling in the region of 20k coins! I appreciate they’ve asked for some refinement, but surely in the scheme of the amount of work you’ve done, is it not worth doing to get it over the line? No criticism at all, just a reflection

Yeah, it also makes you wonder why they produce two different styles, one for packs, one for circulation. The cynical side of me has thought, that these designs, then the undated 20p, then the Kew Gardens hysteria, 2009 blue Peter 50p, were to whip people up into collecting modern coins so that they’d have a market to then sell 15 designs per year!

Just been going through but none of the following were issued in sets, so difficult to find in BU: 1999 £2 technology coin (one of chris’ favourites) 2006 £2 technology coin 2006 Britannia 50p my reckoning 2007 £2 Abolition of slavery textured no initials 2007 £2 technology There’s probably more, but these were the immediate ones I could think of

There’s quite a few 50ps and a couple of the regular £2 issued especially around 2006 that don’t feature in any of the BU packs but put into circulation that are very affordable (if you can find them) on eBay. Through hours of scrolling and a few lucky purchases, I’ve managed to get most. I can pull together a list if you’d be interested.

Thanks Pete, I do actually have one, but am constantly scouring to see how often things pop up! Cheers for the offer though!

What we need is a Mail Money article stating that they’re the rarest coin known and then quickly see how many pop up on eBay! 😂 I wouldn’t begin to estimate how many there are, however I’m only now really collecting decimals and am always trying to hunt down these kinds of coins! I’ve not yet found an uncirculated 1981 10p anywhere apart from on Michael’s website, and I’ve trawled a lot of eBay sellers over the last few years!

I got a 1990 Queen Mother Crown as a Christmas present. It was a typical “coin gran bought as a possible inheritance for me whilst young” that my dad gave me! The reason I’m posting is that it appears gold! I’ve been searching Google, eBay, checkyourchange app and just can’t believe it would be a solid gold coin - chards have them for sale at just under £2k! Were any issued in gold Leaf for instance?

Ah - Stuart will have to accept my apologies! 🙏

Not sure I can be classed as 'regular', but still very much into coins at the age of 35 and 10/12ths. I remember Peter being the very first person to reply to my first post! I see his last visit was in 2019 - so pre-covid! Hopefully he's ok!

Interesting that the above is starting to get greater prominence on eBay! People have only previously been interested in the 99 RWC coin but seeing more slide to the fact it wasn’t in sets so low numbers in good condition Thought this was a winner until I got to the obverse https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1999-2-TWO-POUND-COIN-TECHNOLOGY-SHOULDERS-OF-GIANTS-RARE-IN-THIS-CONDITION-/274937303389?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&_trksid=p2349624.m46890.l49286&mkrid=710-127635-2958-0

And this one sold for £75 https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/VERY-RARE-1999-2-TECHNOLOGY-TWO-POUND-COIN-STANDING-ON-THE-SHOULDERS-OF-GIANTS-/373758087169?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&_trksid=p2349624.m46890.l49286&mkrid=710-127635-2958-0 a quick google doesn’t bring up any articles from the Daily Fail or Express so it appears people are catching on to this through sites such as Chris’

Thanks everyone! I’d never have guessed that as a solution! It’s incredible how even the discolouration is - I truly thought it was gold based upon the look, but yes was the packaging that made me assume otherwise. Yes, it was this gran and grandad who hoarded all the pre-dec coins for me that I first got several years ago that got me into collecting!

Amazing! Well done! Six years! That’s what it’s all about - the thrill of the chase

I really don’t know the detail. Dunno if you’ve seen the film enigma, but in my mind it’s a bit like those “computers” constantly whirling and chugging until they find the code! With Bitcoin there’s only ?21m coins so in the early days anyone with a decent connection could mine them, but obviously as the number decreases, the energy needed to find them increases. A few companies have started locating their “mines” in places such as Siberia to aid with cooling costs etc

Whilst an earlier comment suggested that crypto isn't backed by gold, government IOUs etc. go on any investing forum about crypto and the die hards will tell you you're investing in the technology behind it, namely the blockchain and how this will revolutionise the world. In terms of it replacing FIAT currency it won't catch on until a shop (eg) could reliably price something at 1BTC but with the volatility, at present that's not possible. Another big issue is how especially in some of the more alternative crypto's, one person can be the market. Even with BTC Elon can pump or dump the market with one tweet, meanwhile in the more 'alty' coins, one person allegedly bought 8k worth of Shiba in February of last year and it's now worth 1.5bn - how do you exit that position? There's a few stockmarket listed companies that mine crypto - Argo Blockchain being the most prominent. Once you feel you vaguely understand crypto, then start looking at NFTs. That's an absolute head**** and as with everything crypto a great ponzi scheme for those that get in early enough. Jack Dorsey the CEO of Twitter recently sold his first tweet as an NFT valued at 2.9m!

But surely half a million +- the 1992 withdrawal doesn’t result in an absolute paucity of coins. Like has been said previously go on any eBay seller sites that have annual coins to choose from and there is never a 1981 coin. This is in context of being able to readily buy 1989 when there’s “only” 160k coins

The media definitely influence the market value of modern coins. I remember someone commenting on the Blue Peter 2009 50p back in April 2013/14 and saying you could buy them for a £5. I know coz I was in a Spoons and bought three! They’re now going for £250 plus! It’ll be interesting to see what the Brexit SYO 31/01 will be going for once the mintage figures are published which was date stamped just for one day. The Harry and Megan £5 had 508 made over two days (weekend) whilst and goes for eye watering prices.

I managed to find one (99 £2h BUNC on eBay about 5yrs ago for £25 in auction. I know Michael has a few on his site at varying grades.

Indeed, I tracked one down from Michael G a while back so now have a selfish interest in understanding how many there may be

The app is great and likewise coin checker have one (although it’s really bad). I always hope the developers use it to gather census data, i.e to understand number of uncirculated £2 1999 “standing on shoulders, UNC 1981 10p etc although granted that relies upon people being able to grade effectively.

Isn’t the metal value of the 2p coin actually worth about 3.5p?

Just a cheeky enquiry to see if anyone may have one they’re willing to part with?