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    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?
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    I will pay YOU

    richtips86 replied to PWA 1967's topic in Wanted

    Amazing! Well done! Six years! That’s what it’s all about - the thrill of the chase
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    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
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    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!
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    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
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    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.
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    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.
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    Indeed, I tracked one down from Michael G a while back so now have a selfish interest in understanding how many there may be
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    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.
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    Isn’t the metal value of the 2p coin actually worth about 3.5p?
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    Sorry Rob - my reference to “cheeky” was more solely because I hardly engage on here. Two new additions to the family and work have got in the way.
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    Just a cheeky enquiry to see if anyone may have one they’re willing to part with?
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    Does anyone else subscribe to the app, and if so, have you been having problems with your subscription / monetary value aspect?
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    That's really interesting Rob - thanks for your thoughts. Ps - I still need to make it to the club one time. Number 2 is on its way in the next month hopefully so it may be a good excuse to get away from the M-I-L when she's with us!!
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    Thanks, yes it was seeing that that made me look into it
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    I’ve been doing some reading into the mintages of some of the larger sized 10p pieces and know there has been debate on here previously. A quick glance of some mintages are as follows: 1984 - 158k / 1988 - 134k / 1990 - 102k / 1991 - 74k and then there’s 1981 - 3.5m!! However, currently there are 11 listings on eBay for 1991, 15 for 1990 and 0 for 1981 and that pattern has been ongoing for some time. I’ve read some conjecture that those minted in 1981 ended up going down as 1980 and that the true number is much fewer. Is there anyway therefore of identifying how many 1981 10p pieces there truly are? I’m guessing significantly fewer than 1991?! <10k?
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    Yeah I found this in Smiths. Felt like it was linked to Change Checker and had an understandable focus on decimals as such. But quite a good read!
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    If it’s who I think it is, I stumbled across his website a while back where you can order certain coins from him. Essentially he goes to the banks and takes out x thousands of the denomination and sorts through them
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    Well I’ve just been handed an accumulation from someone in the family way back. A really interesting mix of pre-decimal, foreign and colonial coins. It must have been someone’s savings as anything that could have had decent value has been holed and put on a little ring. Anything of significant value would appear to have been ruined in that sense but still the history and possible stories are flying through my head. I’ll post some pictures of the more interesting coins
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    What are the scarce 2p?
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    Point taken regarding British mints producing coinage for others. So have you tried looking at coins from non-uk mint nations? Especially in your sketch, I’m seeing more of a shaggy dog and one of the coins I get a dragon!
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    Woops, you're right. The effect of a good "Tally-Ho".
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    HI Jerry, a somewhat delayed response to my initial query when I saw this discussed on a different topic. Being completely honest I cannot see the images, but that means diddly squat. I guess a few comments / observations on what I've read so far. Apologies, I know so little about the topics you'll have to excuse my ignorance if these are blindingly stupid questions or don't even make sense a) Did we have (do we) the technology to imprint images into pre formed metal discs? b) If this really is something that we have been doing, presumably you wouldn't find this in other countries' coinage? Have you reviewed other coins? If other countries did this then you may expect other national images - France, the cock; Australia - kangaroo? If you did find images in other coins, then perhaps it's another tick down the line of metallurgy with hot metal cooling / the physics of pressing a coin / pareidolia
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