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I have found a Kew Gardens 50p in the past. I believe I would have found more, but obviously everyone was looking for them and removing them. No one - other than myself - has been actively looking for these 2006 ten pences. I have four. Three I've found, one AU/possibly UNC from eBay earlier this year. I know Tony Clayton has at least obe, possibly two of these. I did hear of someone else who had one. So that's what seven known coins for certain. I suspect perhaps only one die was used for these and I just happened to acquire two of them close together in 2006/7. I haven't seen one since until this morning, and I have been looking! There's nothing rare about the Kew Gardens 50p. I could find countless on eBay or elsewhere and buy a mint state one tomorrow, for a price obviously, but they're are readily available, expensive doesn't equal rare! I hope you can update your coin book with these varieties!

I love this kind of thing. Modern rarities that no one is bothered about because there is little financial incentive to look, they involve a little effort to understand and spot and because they haven't been exposed in the Sun or on dodgy click-bait tabloid websites. I hate that side of decimal collecting, plus all of the deliberate misleading crap and even fakes on eBay over the years.... remember the dateless mule 20p, when people were actually grinding off the date of normal ones and attempting to pass them off as 'dateless'! How many 2006 10p's do you think you've actually seen in total? 2006 was a massive mintage at 118m+, so it would seem the type A die(s) were for whatever reason, just used for a tiny fraction of that total. Even if it was for a million coins, it's still under 1% of the 2006 total. All these years later and finding a stunning example will be very hard (as you know!), like finding a decent 1807 slave trade £2 with no DG initials (i.e. the circ only variant). They may well be rarer than the Kew 50p. Might even be comparable with the mule 2016 £1 coin with the tiny 2017 dates on the reverse - and surely more of those should exist in the wild but a magnifying glass is needed to even see it.

Wow, that's great to find out, thank you, I did have to read up on Mule meaning I have read before and so this is a Error coin A mule coin is a type of error coin that features a combination of designs from two different coins, typically due to a mistake during minting. Wow.. this is very interesting to also learn. many thanks for all the time taken, its going to be an interesting few weeks as these still need to be worked through.....

You're magically an enthusiast now. The expert grader old rank was always there. No idea why they need to have 2 now.

Eighteen years and I've found my third one in change today. Not a great looker though.

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Yes, as Paddy has narrowed it down to, the Bristol coin is class 3cd, and it looks to me that the London coin is a class 10/11 mule, on account of the angle-backed C on the reverse. This is an excellent resource if you haven’t any books on the series. https://www.rodblunt.com/edwardian-pennies

Very good to hear. I couldn't find any reports of issues with TypeIt4Me in conjunction with the forum, but that another browser seems better is no surprise, browsers are so complicated these days.

I'm using Chromium instead of Firefox, and so far - touch wood - it seems to be working normally with my abbreviations.

This one is indeed a penny. Third coinage, mintmark lion, bust 3i

If it had liv as the last three characters, it would have been worth a couple hundred pounds, or whatever someone was willing to pay, even in that condition

Not my area, as you know by now, but the ISTO must be Bristol mint? Not listed as substantially scarcer than any others. From the Spink book, I think that means it must be one of the Class 2 or 3 variations.

I have started a new page of Hammered coins, I have the penny's (halved) with all the information stored with them, lower down are the ones that are to rubbed to gain any further information on them.. however Ive kept them and one the hoard is finished sorting I can sit back and figure out what's their future... following on the better of the group are possibly Edward 1 Penny, the second one is City of London, as for the first...ISTO ? Class? All and any input greatly welcome, regards "H"

Awwwwwww... its been forever delayed as my copy of 2009 spink is lacking in illustrations of Elizabeth 1 smaller coinage. and after my last attempt and getting it correct I failed miserably ........ so...without rose & date...could this be a penny? 3rd/4th issues 1561-77 ?? I'm gonna need a newer Spink book! 🤔 As always many thanks, Rgds "H"

Please do! I would be very grateful if you find any. After all you secured me all the BU ten pences from 1992 to 2003, all those years ago!

Hello Sylvester. Sorry if I didn't reply to your pm back in March. Doesn't look like I did. I'm afraid I don't have any 10p's later than some nice 1970s examples. I'll keep you in mind though if I ever come those.

Bump. @Chris Perkins if you can source any. Has anyone got a Type 4 (between/between), Type 5 (at/at) 1992 ten pence in UNC? Willing to pay £30 for each. I need these for my full run in uncirculated. I'm still looking for a 2006 Type A (at dot on reverse) 10p. Willing to pay £30 for this in UNC condition. Mine is only AU.

Well so it is 🤩, brilliant! I can actually see that now that you've pointed it out - Thank you so much 😊

In case you come across anymore of these, the date is in Roman Numerals just behind Victoria's shoulder. You can just make out the lxxi at the end and can assume the rest. Worth knowing how to date them as some dates are much scarcer and more valuable than others.

Thank you 😊 the sorting was great fun! I also think the Florin is a nice souvenir - they really are a lovely design and the fact it's so worn makes me feel like it's been very well loved since 1871! I had no idea what the date might have been so that is awesome to know 🤩 thank you so much!

Silver is doing well for scrap price at the moment on the back of gold, so this sixpence would scrap at between £1.00 and £1.20. Don't spend it all at once!! It has no extra numismatic value in this lowly condition.

Agreed. 1924 is not a scarce date and I have scrapped much better coins than that before now.

circa 1300, Medieval Spanish Hammered Silver Coin👍

It's a sixpence with 50% silver content. And without wishing to appear rude I'd say it's worth the scrap value for the silver content.