Unbelievable High Prices For Old Coins

I agree - this is almost unethical given the hugely over inflated price for a coin worth 50p. Probably trying to tap into the wedding gift market.

I suppos the "Lucky" and "Weddingy" and the wee fancy box justify it, I see on the website the give details of "Wedding Traditions" The forgot to add in England we can put an old sixpence int a nice new box and flog it to the public suckers........And no doubt all we'll get for justification is " The Royal Mint are a business", and all business' intent is to make money, yeah yeah yeah, It's still a ripoff,
I annually purchase my coin proff year sets from The Royal Mint, and it appears to be they simply think of a price, any price higher than the previous year, and lets see how many mugs like me purchase them, well as yet I have not purchase 2013 proof set, Its being sold at £110, Last years set was £55 for a 10 coin set, This years is a 15 coin set..........somebody do the maths, a 50% increase in coin count, but 100% increase cost count, I would really love to hear from James at The Royal Mint for his version of the pricing structure. Oh and what about all the over priced commemorative crap they flog every year to but thats a different story we can possibly discuss another time.

They were selling pre 47 6ds to COLLECTORS for £20 a while back..av circulated.Worth about 75p.

I wouldn't like higher taxes, but equally we could do without Trident, waging unwinnable foreign wars, or supporting European food mountains, and clearly those will continue.

I just think it's a sad reflection that the once renowned and world esteemed Royal Mint which once coined for most of the world has lowered its commercial sights to selling old coins at excessive prices rather than competing and minting coins for other countries.

Aside from the ghastly milk spots on their bullion coins, that is!

Part of me wishes I could sell George V/VI silver sixpences at £30 each - I could retire to a sunny spot and spend my days looking at coins. The rest of me (mostly my conscience) warns me that I would hate being dishonest, conning people out of their money just for a huge profit.

Actually, I don't think I could do it, my family would disown me and my friends would shun me.

I wonder how many the Mint will sell; I doubt they'll reveal the answer if were to make a Freedom of Information request.

How come we have not had a response from The Royal Mint representative on this thread.
I thought there were a few valid unanswered questions that merit some sort of response from them, or do they operate a selective response system on here?

I suppose in a few years time they will be selling the recalled 2008 mule 20p coins at a very overinflated price.

At Present not including the items mentioned at the start of this thread, the Main uncirculated 2013-commemorative coins are
Ironside 50p for £8,
2 x "Floral" one pound coins for £18
Guinea 350th Anniversary £2 coin for £10
London Underground 2 X £2 coins for £20
Coronation 60th Anniversary £5 coin for £13
again is it just my maths or is there no consistency in this pricing structure?
How do they arrive at the selling price with these items and the others mentioned.