Check your 20p pieces!!!

[Jon Corby]

For anyone who hasn't heard about this - it has come to light that there were a number (unclear how many at the moment, but between 50,000 and 200,000 I think) of the new style "coat of arms" 20p pieces minted last year with no date. A coin dealership called "London Mint" or something is offering a flat rate of £50 for any, but they're changing hands for a lot more than that on eBay (and there are also scamming twats trying to pass off any coat-of-arms 20p pieces or any undated heads [all old 20ps have the date on the tail side] as rarities, which obviously they're not).

What you're looking for is:



If you find one as a result of reading this post, some kind of commission would be nice

[Derek Hazell]

On the morning of the very day this was announced I was given an amazing £5-worth of 20 pences by a bus driver who didn't have any other change - and not one of them was one of these!

I think that is taking bad luck to the extreme!

[Jon Corby]

On the morning of the very day this was announced I was given an amazing £5-worth of 20 pences by a bus driver who didn't have any other change - and not one of them was one of these!

I think that is taking bad luck to the extreme!

Well presumably if £5 worth of 20ps was enough to virtually guarantee one, they wouldn't actually be that rare, and therefore not worth much. I did think I'd got one out the coffee machine at work this morning, before realising that (unlike old 20ps) the date was actually on the heads side. D'oh. I'd done a little dance and everything.

[Michael Wallace]

I was watching some of these auctions on ebay yesterday. Curiously, the first one I saw went for around £5,600, but then one that went overnight only went for about £460. Makes me wonder if the former was a result of fake bids.

Also seen a couple of instances of people selling regular 20ps for about £20, because people can't read (there was one guy who was selling a lot of coins, and so seemed pretty legit in the sense of not trying to scam anyone, he even answered a question on the page from someone asking if it was dated - he still got £26 for it!).

[Jon Corby]

I was watching some of these auctions on ebay yesterday. Curiously, the first one I saw went for around £5,600, but then one that went overnight only went for about £460. Makes me wonder if the former was a result of fake bids.

Also seen a couple of instances of people selling regular 20ps for about £20, because people can't read (there was one guy who was selling a lot of coins, and so seemed pretty legit in the sense of not trying to scam anyone, he even answered a question on the page from someone asking if it was dated - he still got £26 for it!).

Yeah, I've seen a few too. I reported one which was blatantly just an old coin - he'd just photographed the dateless head side and not shown the tails side! It was at £100 too, with about 2 hours left. Shocking that somebody would do that, but also that people are so easily duped.

[JimBentley]

Most of our customers at work pay cash and often want to offload coins to save having to go to the bank, so it's not unusual for us to get a few hundred 20p pieces in a week. Trouble is, everyone already seems to know about the dateless coins (certainly everyone since Monday morning, anyway) so will have checked them all beforehand. Still, you never know.

[Jeffrey Burgin]

Having checked all the 20ps in three different tills at work today, I can confirm that finding one is indeed harder than first thought.

[Jon Corby]

I've got one of these btw

[Charlie Reams]

I've got one of these btw

Me too. £50 well spent right?

[Soph K]

Cool, I will check my 20p's right away!! Probably won't have any of those ones though. But just in case - you never know! Do you have any?

[Jon Corby]

I've got one of these btw

Me too. £50 well spent right?

Damn straight. I'm going to buy up as many as I can, thus forcing the price up. Genius.

[Rhys Benjamin]

What's worth more - 20p of copper or 20p of gold?

[Ryan Taylor]

What's worth more - 20p of copper or 20p of gold?

That's easy, 20p of gold!!!!!!

[Rhys Benjamin]

What's worth more - 20p of copper or 20p of gold?

That's easy, 20p of gold!!!!!!

They're the same!

[Lesley Hines]

No they're not. 20p of gold is always going to be worth more than 20p of copper.

Bloody kids - they're so thick

[Jon Corby]

A 20p (made) of gold is definitely going to be worth more than a 20p of copper.

[Kai Laddiman]

What's worth more - 20p worth of copper or 20p worth of gold?

FIFY

[Gavin Chipper]

A 20p (made) of gold is definitely going to be worth more than a 20p of copper.

If they start making 20p coins out of gold, they might make them smaller than if they made them from copper.

[Lesley Hines]

A 20p (made) of gold is definitely going to be worth more than a 20p of copper.

If they start making 20p coins out of gold, they might make them smaller than if they made them from copper.

Hell, if they made copper coins out of copper they'd make them smaller

[Peter Mabey]

A 20p (made) of gold is definitely going to be worth more than a 20p of copper.

If they start making 20p coins out of gold, they might make them smaller than if they made them from copper.

Actually ,20p coins are 75% copper nowadays
However, they do make 25p coins out of gold - called quarter-sovereigns: these sell for around £80, depending on date and condition.

[Ryan Taylor]

I've got a half pence from 1962. How much will that fetch me?

[Gavin Chipper]

I've got a half pence from 1962. How much will that fetch me?

I reckon you could double your money on that.

[JimBentley]

I've got a half pence from 1962. How much will that fetch me?

I reckon you could double your money on that.

Actually, according to the London Metal Exchange, the copper content is probably worth about four (American) cents or so, just under three pence. Of course, you'd have to extract the tin and zinc somehow. Probably not worth it, really.