Uncirculated pennies and halfpennies

[Guest Peter Collier]

I have some sealed sacks of uncirculated pre-decimal coins (2 x £5 sacks 1968 1d, 1 x £5 sack 1967 halfpenny). The sacks are canvas and have a lead seal at the neck. The seals are marked, although not clearly, with "....London" on one side and a crown emblem on the other. Each sack has a tag around the neck describing the contents.

Could you tell me the value of these?

Thanks

[Chris Perkins]

More of these!

These bags of 1967/66 Pennies and halfpennies are really very common (although dated 1968, the coins will be 1967) and I get offered them all the time. It's seems people thought if they kept hold of a bag from the millions of other bags, that they might one day be worth more than face value! Well, they are, but not a lot more.

I'd offer £10 per bag. The postage costs are then usually the next stumbling block!

[Guest Peter Collier]

Thank you for your reply, that's really helpful.

Does your footnote appear on all your messages? It sounded rather less than friendly, even a bit rude. Perhaps it's me that's over-sensitive.

[Chris Perkins]

Yes, it appears on all messages. It was aimed at first at one person, but it didn't just happen once, and I do get annoyed when I waste time telling people about coins, even sometimes looking up information about coins that I would be interested to buy. Only to spot them on eBay with a pasted version of exactly what I wrote! You can imagine that's a little annoying.

Doesn't really apply here, so you're more than welcome to put your bags on eBay.

[Guest Peter Collier]

No problem! Thanks for the explanation - makes sense. We've decided to keep the bags for another 30 years and see if the grandkids can make anything!

Regards.

[Chris Perkins]

I doubt it, there'll probably still be hundreds of bags around in 300 years