Best Sources For Unc Decimals?

[Coinery]

I've been asking at the post office for unopened bags of decimals! No luck, yet, though haven't tried the bank!

Question: how far back would banks or PO's carry unopened dates? Also, outside of these sources, where else would you look?

I'm gathering up what I can, for my own pleasure, and also to stimulate the interest of my son, who thinks shiny is best!

[Coinery]

[Peter]

Who wants decimals Stuart.?

We haven't run of predecimals yet.....although I'm working on it.

[Peckris]

Who wants decimals Stuart.?

We haven't run of predecimals yet.....although I'm working on it.

Astonishing to think that the first decimals appeared over 45 years ago! Go back another 45 years and you're at 1922-3.

[Coinery]

I'd quite like to acquire the decimals, though I never thought I'd hear myself say it! I guess it's a cheap and, dare I say it, fun way to involve the boy (as well as myself) AND, don't forget, a way to tap into the coin collecting hobby that all you old buggers experienced when first starting your collections, albeit your experience was a tad more varied and exciting than today's collector might experience from change?

Edit: I guess this has to be read in the context of my 'whole' experience of accumulation! In boyhood I collected pike plugs and football stickers. In my late 20's, when I realised a genuine E1 6d was cheaper than a museum copy, things significantly changed...

I always had a love of 'old ways' and simple living; poaching, fishing, etc. so, history in-hand, has always bit me hard in the arse!

Everything grabbed me, a pottery shard/sherd, a beam from an Elizabethan house, which can be planked for a refectory table, a musket ball suspended from a piece of 1700 deer fencing, a 2" diameter piece of 18th century ship rope as the frame for a mirror...everything, but happy daze indeed!

Double edit: added even before I read Peck was an old git, which I'm sure he is? You can move nearer to us Peck if you want, my wife'll dust your new home and polish your coins for you!

Edited January 6, 2014 by Coinery

[Peter]

Peck

You are an old git.

I'm training hard..

[Paulus]

I'd quite like to acquire the decimals, though I never thought I'd hear myself say it! I guess it's a cheap and, dare I say it, fun way to involve the boy (as well as myself) AND, don't forget, a way to tap into the coin collecting hobby that all you old buggers experienced when first starting your collections, albeit your experience was a tad more varied and exciting than today's collector might experience from change?

I don't know where to get UNC decimals (other than from the RM itself!) but a while back I decided to grab nice examples of the £2 and 50p commems by going to the bank and exchanging notes for bags of them ... any unwanted examples can obviously just be changed back in to notes at no cost. Some of course are less UNC than others, and there are many duplicates and non-commems in the bags, but also quite a high percentage of high grade commems, and might be a fun exercise?

[Peter]

Stuart

Can I and Mrs Peter come and live with you on the long boat.

I will sell my homes and arrive in my MG.We could talk coins all day and.....I like a bit of fishing.

I do need a nutter motorbike and a VAT of cider....not in that order or to be mixed with.

[davidrj]

I've been collecting 50p & £2 from change too (can't be bothered with the rest), but quite a few gaps - what value bags do the banks issue these in?

Edited January 6, 2014 by davidrj

[Peter]

Paulus

I remember the times when playing the fruit machines on holiday.

My parents would give my sister and i a pound each of pennys.

I would the snatch the coins to go through them.

The best ever present at Xmas was a 1914 shilling and a 1901 farthing from my sister...Beat that.

[Coinery]

Stuart

Can I and Mrs Peter come and live with you on the long boat.

I will sell my homes and arrive in my MG.We could talk coins all day and.....I like a bit of fishing.

I do need a nutter motorbike and a VAT of cider....not in that order or to be mixed with.

Sounds perfect to me, as I've been really desperate for a restoration project on a decent motorbike? My last significant motorbiking period was on a GPZ 750, which had little left of the foot pegs by the time I'd finished with it...quite a feat on a poor long-wheelbase design! Apart from the white-line bottom shuffle I loved it!

Will you be bringing your daughters? The wife asked!

[Peter]

They are baggage although they look like my wife (stunning).

They have cost me so much £ I wanted a son to take me to the pub.

My eldest was voted as the best body in the local Witherspoons.I do have a big truncheon

[Coinery]

They are baggage although they look like my wife (stunning).

They have cost me so much £ I wanted a son to take me to the pub.

My eldest was voted as the best body in the local Witherspoons.I do have a big truncheon

It's OK, you can bring them!

[Rob]

They are baggage although they look like my wife (stunning).

They have cost me so much £ I wanted a son to take me to the pub.

My eldest was voted as the best body in the local Witherspoons.I do have a big truncheon

Photos? You can include the bags too.

I don't want to see your truncheon.

Alternatively you may start a members' wives/baggage thread.

[Chris Perkins]

I'll be releasing a new book soon called "Collector's Wives" (and girlfriends). I need help again with pictures. All grades and ages accepted - raw with natural toning is best.

[Coinery]

OK, I'm thinking fend for yourself on this topic, unless Peter turns up with the 'kids' which, in light of the recent awards, he is more than welcome to do so?

Even without the kids you'd be a pleasant and welcome arrival, Peter, once we're organised!

I guess we could always trial Declan first, being as he's only got a farthing's worth of petrol to spend to get here! If he sat on his chainsaw and fired it up, we'd be within walking distance of picking up the pieces!

[Peckris]

I'd quite like to acquire the decimals, though I never thought I'd hear myself say it! I guess it's a cheap and, dare I say it, fun way to involve the boy (as well as myself) AND, don't forget, a way to tap into the coin collecting hobby that all you old buggers experienced when first starting your collections, albeit your experience was a tad more varied and exciting than today's collector might experience from change?

Double edit: added even before I read Peck was an old git, which I'm sure he is? You can move nearer to us Peck if you want, my wife'll dust your new home and polish your coins for you!

I don't know where to get UNC decimals (other than from the RM itself!) but a while back I decided to grab nice examples of the £2 and 50p commems by going to the bank and exchanging notes for bags of them ... any unwanted examples can obviously just be changed back in to notes at no cost. Some of course are less UNC than others, and there are many duplicates and non-commems in the bags, but also quite a high percentage of high grade commems, and might be a fun exercise?

OY. Less of the 'old' if you don't mind. Every morning I wake up and feel like a 17-year-old (supply your own "badoom" punchline here ).

The problem with collecting decimals is that bronze, um I mean steel, goes back to the early 90s, 1/2p's haven't been seen since 1984, 5p's and 10p's go back to 1990 and 1992 respectively and feature nothing of interest compared to their larger brethren, ditto 50p's going back all of 15 years. Decimals as a whole have a 45-year history, but most of them aren't in your change anymore. However if commems float yer boat, that sounds like a good plan

They are baggage although they look like my wife (stunning).

They have cost me so much £ I wanted a son to take me to the pub.

My eldest was voted as the best body in the local Witherspoons.I do have a big truncheon

Photos? You can include the bags too.

I don't want to see your truncheon.

Alternatively you may start a members' wives/baggage thread.

I'll be releasing a new book soon called "Collector's Wives" (and girlfriends). I need help again with pictures. All grades and ages accepted - raw with natural toning is best.

Seconded. Thirded.

[just.me]

I've been collecting 50p & £2 from change too (can't be bothered with the rest), but quite a few gaps - what value bags do the banks issue these in?

50p - £10 bags or £250 bag with 25 small bags

£2 - £20 bags or £500 bag with 25 small bags

£1 are the same as £2

I exchanged notes for the big bags of 50p's when the 29 olympics were released, it took about 10 bags to get them all. My daughter enjoyed sorting through them as she had got a folder to put them in from the mint.

I see the mint have now released folders for collecting the different designs on 50p's, £1 and £2 coins. Coin hunt folder or something along that lines they're called.

[Peter]

I got my mother to source them from the whist drives she helps run.

50p entrance fee and all the oldies knew I was after the Olympic coins.

My old Aunt Flo had a bag containing notes going back to the 50's and let me have some.

During the summer when college was closed I went to decorate her house and ended up

getting a full 3 course dinner everyday.Ahh a students life

[Peter]

Our village post office has bags of new coins.Also ask at your favourite supermarkets.