2024 mintage figures

[e26]

If anyone is after some 2024 coins best get in now before prices go crazy (as usual when a coin or set of coins is confirmed NIFC):

https://www.royalmint.com/corporate/circulating-coin/uk-currency/mintages/

[Paddy]

That explains why I am not seeing any in circulation! I no longer do sets or proofs, so it looks like 2024 will remain a blank year for me.

 

[Peckris 2]

On 11/25/2025 at 12:07 PM, e26 said:

If anyone is after some 2024 coins best get in now before prices go crazy (as usual when a coin or set of coins is confirmed NIFC):

https://www.royalmint.com/corporate/circulating-coin/uk-currency/mintages/

The 2023 50p 20p 10p and 1p are all considerably under 1m minted,  so expect to see them on eBay at absolutely crazy prices.

[Sylvester]

I'm still waiting!

As for mint sets, I only buy the basic definive set, the ones without the commemoratives. I have been boycotting commemorative coins since 2005.  

[wlewisiii]

I picked up a 2025 definitive set here in the US for $70/ £52 - I knew it was high but couldn't find anything else with the new designs. 

[Sylvester]

On 11/30/2025 at 10:39 AM, wlewisiii said:

I picked up a 2025 definitive set here in the US for $70/ £52 - I knew it was high but couldn't find anything else with the new designs. 

That's not a bad price to be honest. All the Charles III sets seem to be expensive. I'm not sure there's much better available in the UK to be honest. I picked up one for £46 last month, that's the cheapest I could find. 

[Bruce]

11 hours ago, Sylvester said:

That's not a bad price to be honest. All the Charles III sets seem to be expensive. I'm not sure there's much better available in the UK to be honest. I picked up one for £46 last month, that's the cheapest I could find. 

Similar here, i think around £40-50 maybe a fair price for KCIII definitive annual set at this moment.

[Coys55]

I’m intrigued by the 2024 mintage figures of sets (25,000) vs circulation (0). Does this mean that the 2024 definitive coins will be highly collectible because of such low mintages or that they will be considered alongside commemorative issues such as Star Wars 50p’s, etc, so of little interest? And how would anyone differentiate them from the set coins (maybe apart from condition) if the mintage of, say the 2024 20p, was 1,000 for circulation rather than 0?

I accept that 2023 was an exception given that the set coins had the privy mark on the obverse, which I believe would clearly define them as not intended for circulation and akin to commemorative issues.

If the 2024 coins are considered non-circulating then surely the same logic should have been applied to coins such as the 1950 and 1951 pennies (which I’m pretty sure all penny collectors will have in their collections, but were only struck for circulation in Bermuda and the Bahamas) which were not meant to circulate in the UK, and even more so to the 1933, which was obviously never struck for circulation?

I’m just curious as to what would make a circulation vs non-circulation strike of an otherwise identical coin (obviously I’m discounting proofs and/or precious metal versions).