Unwilling Numismatist

Yes but the plastic coffin must cost £247.20 leaving 80p postage and 1.99 for the coin (and perhaps even a little extra for electricity to tone....).

A very nice purchase there @Paddy, some nice vickies too!

only MS65..pfft you have low standards

I tend to buy the annual BU year sets, and then get anything else currency, but for completion of 50p's I do also get the others. That may stop soon though as the amount now seeming to appear literally for the sake of the RM making money is getting beyond fun. As for mintage figures, some new pages on the RM Site show them for the coin it's advertising now. The snowman and gruffallo will not be limited in number, so there could be millions of them. That to me is 100% printing money. At least with the 50 years of 50p sets you knew you were getting something which had a finite amount.

100% fake. I have definitely seen better ones that that recently. Having just checked some chinese sites I'm also alarmed at the improvements to many Victoria and Edward coins too, might be worth while taking a look and using the term "uk copy coin" to get familiar with whats coming into the marketplace.

2.1m into cirtculation, but no comment on how many will be minted for profiteering sales.

It may actually be the discerning collector of the next decade who is currently buying these, afterall, it is a start.

There'll be plenty of time to get a BU one though. What are the mintage figures? The Gruffalo BU: Unlimited The Gruffalo Silver Proof: 25,000 LEP / 30,000 MCM The Gruffalo Gold Proof: 600 LEP / 600 MCM What are the Gruffalo LEP and MCM amounts and what is the difference? Limited Edition Presentation (LEP) refers to the number of coins presented in our Gruffalo 20th Anniversary packaging, whereas the Maximum Coin Mintage (MCM) is the total number of coins struck. The Gruffalo LEP is 25,000 and the MCM is 30,000, meaning there is an allocation of 5,000 coins available for alternative presentations.

Wow, and I'm still in a queue at the RM - just to see what all the fuss is about. I see it's another of those 50p shaped pieces of metal which isn't actually a coin in the sense of the use of money - not for circulation, so in fact purely for profit.

£56 seems a bit high for that pile of dross.

I think want is a dangerous term, one may have a requirement for some, in a manner that enables a complete collection, but want isn't necessarily the correct verb.

It's better than the usual offerings on aliexpress etc, but as Jerry said - the thread on coincommunity would be the one to look for regarding the edge nick etc. Personally I think I'll stay out of this as I have proven before that I don't know enough about these yet, and will continue my reading and learning in silence

It's that shoe-box which wil probably have quite a value in another 200 years, all you need to do is figure out how to be around to get the reward

I thought they'd be in the millions too, but the tour guide was very precise about the mintage figures. Let's just hope he was accurate too. I think when they do get displayed on the RM site, thats when prices will potentially take a jump.

Everyone seems to want to save them, even if it's initials or a complete name. As for the mintage figures, the 2018 alphabet was 200k each. no idea if 2019 will get a run, that wasn't mentioned.

I'd like to, but I don't see it happening this decade. Currently they're "only" doing about 300, so a couple of years in the stock cupboard might help

It looks like a fake, it's very poorly produced reverse design is in line with some previously found on alibaba.com or aliexpress.com .. like this one which does not have correctly formed devices on the reverse - the lions are mis-aligned and of child-like execution, and the obverse gives the impression of being cast or pressed very badly, then polished. I cannot actually understand why someone would spend $4 on a 50p though, but people have done.

Makes you wonder doesn't it. I (again) wish I'd ordered more. One day I will learn.

How peculiar. I'm not aware of doing anything untoward with the original link. All I did was went to that link and scrolled down (ignore all the bumf you see at the top about the 50p's and scroll down).

I got an email at 08:22 this morning while I was driving to work, hardly sufficient to plan a buying frenzy.

The link seems to function perfectly still. The only set left available is the crappy "old and 2008" pairing for waaaaytoomuchmoney. Everything else on teh page (once you've scrolled down) all shows as no longer available.

All sold within 2 hours of writing. Dammit, I should have bought 10. That would have been easy cash for real coins. Many appear on ebay already and some have sold for consideably more than the RM price - many listings show as "Pre-Order". If you blinked, you missed 'em.

For those interested, the set of 50p's including a 2019 Kew are on sale from today. These sets are limited to 3,500. Make of it what you will, I have mine.. just wish they'd left it for a month or two, as this close to Christmas getting 10 wasn't an option. https://www.royalmint.com/our-coins/events/50-years-of-the-50p/ Kev

Subtlety.