Scarce 2006 ten pence

[Sylvester]

Out of interest, how many of you out there have managed to find the Type A reverse on the 2006 10p piece? These seem very hard to find.

The 1 in the 10 points at an edge dot. These all went into circulation and seem to be a mere fraction of the mintage. All the mint sets and the vast bulk of circulation issues are Type B (between dots). See photos below.

Thus far I've found 2 Type A's out of change and bought a third from eBay last week. A pretty low result rate for 17 years of searching for them. Rarer than the Kew Gardens 50p?

Type A below.

[Sylvester]

Type B

 

[copper123]

It probably is but the national papers will never publicise this so it will always be a rare coin that nobody knows about

[Sylvester]

True... Especially since the mint has been withdrawing the cupronickel issues and melting them down since 2013. They'll be rarer still.

[richtips86]

I’m aware of the 1992 10p varieties, but no others.

Is there a breakdown anywhere?

[Sylvester]

See this thread:

https://www.predecimal.com/forum/topic/14903-type-4-5-1992-ten-pences/

[richtips86]

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

[Sylvester]

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

 

[Sylvester]

[Chris Perkins]

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.

[Sylvester]

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!