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Tbf - if it was worth 2p in 2018, it’s probably worth 1p today!

Where / how did you pick that up?

Ps - first time I’ve ever seen for sale on eBay, only other vendor I’ve come across was Michael

For anyone after one, I bought from this seller and was quite impressed by both the grade and price. https://ebay.us/m/prM6Ei

I completely missed that thread / thanks for re-sharing!

I’m aware of the 1992 10p varieties, but no others. Is there a breakdown anywhere?

£641!

But will you be able to tell, without taking it from the packet?

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

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

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!