MikeCoin

From what I've read on the forum, it appears that the 50p is very hard to find...?

Has anybody else come across these? I got my first one about 7 months ago when a 2008 old style coat of arms pound coin appeared in my money tin (I'm self employed). Since then I wondered if the complete set was out there and have spent pretty much all of this year trying to find them all. Last week I *finally* managed to get my hands on the last one, the 50p. Here's a couple of photos (I apologise if these are a little oversized - trying to keep the details clear): In my experience in trying to find these (this has sometimes amounted to searching bags upon bags of coins, mostly to no avail) this is a rough estimate to rarity: 1p - semi rare. 2p - extremely rare. 5p - not very rare. 10p - pretty rare. 20p - not very rare. 50p - extremely rare. £1 - semi rare. Just gone onto wikipedia and found some of the percentages between old / new amounts pressed. 20p - 11,900,000 / 81,920,000 (13.5% features old design) 50p - 700,000 / 12,320,000 (5% features old design) £1 - 3,910,000 / 29,433,000 (13.2% features old design) Does anybody have any more information surrounding these coins? I'm sure I heard somewhere that minting for the new design started in March meaning only a few weeks of old design production before the new one was implimented. Can't remember where I heard that from though. Is it possible that this set could be worth anything in the future, or even now? A friend of mine claims that they've found the final one I need to complete a second set so I'm thinking of trying my chances on eBay if only to see what'll happen. Thanks in advance for listening to my rambling. Please go easy on me if I've come up with something discussed a million times before - it's just enthusiasm I guess! =p