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UK 50 Pence Commemorative Hunting

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 Posted 12/04/2022  05:31 am  Show Profile   Check NumisRob's eBay Listings Bookmark this reply Add NumisRob to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Merv - well done on the Pride and the Platinum Jubilee, still not had either of those myself yet.
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 Posted 12/05/2022  8:36 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Merv4468 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Hi NumisRob,
Yes, not bad going. I've only had 5 "Platinum Jubilee's" I kept 1 & gave the rest away to other collectors at face (same with the "Pride UK" had 2 gave & 1 away. still looking for another few of them)
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 Posted 01/01/2023  06:46 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Merv4468 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
December 2022 from £2190.00

2 milestones passed this last month. It's the first time that I have managed to check through £2000 of 50p's
in one month & I have also checked more in the passed 4 months than I did in the previous 12.
I will now start to calculate the amounts checked on a calender year basis.

December was as followed

1998 NHS (2)
2000 Public Libraries (4)
2004 Sub Four Minute Mile (5)
2005 Johnson's Dictionary (7)
2006 Victoria Cross - Medal (2)
2007 Boy Scouts (3)
2010 Girl Guides (4)
2011 Olympic Games London 2012 - Aquatics
2011 Olympic Games London 2012 - Boccia
2011 Olympic Games London 2012 - Cycling
2011 Olympic Games London 2012 - Hockey
2011 Olympic Games London 2012 - Modern Pentathlon
2013 Benjamin Britten (2)
2013 Christopher Ironside (7)
2014 Commonwealth Games - Glasgow (4)
2016 Battle of Hastings (6)
2016 Beatrix Potter - Birth Anniversary
2016 Beatrix Potter - Jemima Puddle-Duck
2016 Beatrix Potter - Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle (8)
2016 Beatrix Potter - Peter Rabbit (5)
2016 Beatrix Potter - Squirrel Nutkin
2016 Team GB Olympics (3)
2017 Beatrix Potter - Benjamin Bunny (12)
2017 Beatrix Potter - Mr. Jeremy Fisher (2)
2017 Beatrix Potter - The Tale of Peter Rabbit (9)
2017 Beatrix Potter - Tom Kitten (4)
2018 Beatrix Potter - Mrs. Tittlemouse (2)
2018 Beatrix Potter - Peter Rabbit
2018 Beatrix Potter - The Tailor of Gloucester (3)
2018 Paddington Bear - Buckingham Palace (2)
2018 Paddington Bear - Station (3)
2018 People Act (6)
2019 Paddington Bear at St. Paul's Cathedral (5)
2019 Paddington Bear at the Tower of London (9)
2019 Sherlock Holmes (8)
2020 Brexit (6)
2020 Diversity Built Britain (26)
2022 Queen's Platinum Jubilee (6)
2022 50 Years of Pride UK (7)

also :-
MAURITIUS 1 Rupee 2009 (KM# 55)
ISLE OF MAN 2014 , 50p 'BA' die mark

I was robbed... In one of the bags there was £9.50 & a Mauritius 1 Rupee instead of the other 50p. The 1 Rupee is less than 2 pence at the current exchange rate. Worst of all it wasn't even a hole filler...

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 Posted 01/31/2023  6:30 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Merv4468 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Hi all, Welcome to 2023. My first report fur the year is as follows.

January 2023 from £1420.00

1998 NHS
2000 Public Libraries (5)
2004 Sub Four Minute Mile (5)
2005 Johnson's Dictionary (11)
2006 Victoria Cross - Medal (3)
2006 Victoria Cross - Soldier (6)
2007 Boy Scouts (5)
2010 Girl Guides (2)
2011 Olympic Games London 2012 - Boccia
2011 Olympic Games London 2012 - Goalball
2011 Olympic Games London 2012 - Gymnastics
2011 Olympic Games London 2012 - Modern Pentathlon
2011 Olympic Games London 2012 - Shooting
2011 Olympic Games London 2012 - Taekwondo
2011 Olympic Games London 2012 - Volleyball (2)
2011 World Wildlife Fund
2013 Benjamin Britten (2)
2013 Christopher Ironside (9)
2014 Commonwealth Games - Glasgow (3)
2016 Beatrix Potter - Birth Anniversary
2016 Beatrix Potter - Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle (4)
2016 Beatrix Potter - Peter Rabbit
2016 Team GB Olympics (5)
2017 Beatrix Potter - Benjamin Bunny (10)
2017 Beatrix Potter - Mr. Jeremy Fisher
2017 Beatrix Potter - The Tale of Peter Rabbit (10)
2017 Beatrix Potter - Tom Kitten (2)
2018 Beatrix Potter - The Tailor of Gloucester
2018 Paddington Bear - Buckingham Palace
2018 Paddington Bear - Station (2)
2018 People Act (3)
2019 Paddington Bear at St. Paul's Cathedral (4)
2019 Paddington Bear at the Tower of London (3)
2020 Brexit (4)
2020 Diversity Built Britain (17)
2022 Queen's Platinum Jubilee (4)
2022 50 Years of Pride UK (13)
2022 Life & Legacy of Q.E.II (20) (UNC. sealed bag of 20)

also
2008 Britannia
GUERNSEY 1997
GUERNSEY 2012
JERSEY 1998
JERSEY 2009
JERSEY 2012

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 Posted 02/01/2023  09:38 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add jbuck to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply

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Hi all, Welcome to 2023. My first report fur the year is as follows.
Nice finds!
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 Posted 02/01/2023  5:47 pm  Show Profile   Check NumisRob's eBay Listings Bookmark this reply Add NumisRob to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Well done, Merv! Nice to see that the Pride and 2022 Jubilee coins are getting commoner - maybe I will get some soon!

Slightly surprised you got no 2016 Battle of Hastings in that number of coins.
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 Posted 02/02/2023  6:24 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Merv4468 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Hi again all,

Thanks, jbuck.

NumisRob, I don't seem to get many of the "2016 Battle of Hastings" only 28 since I started bag hunting in 2021.But I do seem to get a lot of "2017 Beatrix Potter - Benjamin Bunny" & "2005 Johnson's Dictionary"

I went into my second "buy" bank today & got £50's worth, when I got home I saw that they were all sealed bags as issued by the mint. I always check this type of bags contents before ripping open the bag, first bag was all 2022 "50 Years of Pride UK" next 4 bags were the same. I now have 100 of them that are uncirculated in sealed bags of 20.

On another note , I think I heard that the 2022 King Charles III "Life and Legacy of Queen Elizabeth II" were only being released by the Post Office, over the counter in change for items bought. I don't know but some must have been given to banks to release into the system. I still haven't found one in the wild yet.

The full sealed bag of the 2022 King Charles III that I managed to get were from my main "buy" bank , I got them when I bought £100 one day. I don't know if they were mistakenly mixed in with the normal stuff or what, but it just so happens that the day before, I had taken a box of chocolates in for the ladies on the counter.

It just goes to show, if you are polite and take in a treat for the bank staff, the "coin gods" might smile on you. Also in this bank I have started to be known as "the 50p man".

Thank, Merv
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 Posted 02/03/2023  7:27 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Merv4468 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Hi Dearborn,
I've been doing as many as I can get hold of, but they are not as many as some of the US Kennedy half collectors are doing. I've been reading the Kennedy half thread (only seen a few hundred pages so far) some people are checking through several thousand coins a week.... Oh! how I wish I lived in the USA.
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 Posted 02/03/2023  7:36 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Dearborn to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Have you see my Kennedy collection yet? a link is in my signature below..

(But I don't 'roll hunt Kennedy's, just collect one of each)


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Oh! how I wish I lived in the USA.


And how I wish I were back in the UK again. (Lived in Wales for almost 4 years)

Maybe we could trade places.. lol
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Hi Dearborn, VERY NICE collection of Kennedy halfs.
I don't buy from the mint in packs or sets, I only collect what I can get hold of from circulation. Every now & then I manage to get a US or Canadian quarter from a bag of 10p's or something foreign from the bags of 50p's. They are a nice little surprise (except for the Mauritius 1 Rupee)
thanks, Merv
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February 2023 from £1760.00

1998 European Union (2)
1998 NHS
2000 Public Libraries (4)
2003 Suffragette Movement
2004 Sub Four Minute Mile (4)
2005 Johnson's Dictionary (14)
2006 Victoria Cross - Medal (3)
2006 Victoria Cross - Soldier (7)
2007 Boy Scouts (5)
2010 Girl Guides (4)
2011 Olympic Games London 2012 - Basketball
2011 Olympic Games London 2012 - Boccia
2011 Olympic Games London 2012 - Fencing
2011 Olympic Games London 2012 - Gymnastics
2011 Olympic Games London 2012 - Modern Pentathlon
2011 Olympic Games London 2012 - Shooting
2011 Olympic Games London 2012 - Wheelchair Rugby
2013 Benjamin Britten
2013 Christopher Ironside (7)
2014 Commonwealth Games - Glasgow (2)
2015 Battle of Britain (2)
2016 Beatrix Potter - Birth Anniversary (2)
2016 Battle of Hastings (2)
2016 Beatrix Potter - Jemima Puddle-Duck
2016 Beatrix Potter - Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle (5)
2016 Beatrix Potter - Peter Rabbit (3)
2016 Team GB Olympics (2)
2017 Beatrix Potter - Benjamin Bunny (15)
2017 Beatrix Potter - Mr. Jeremy Fisher (4)
2017 Beatrix Potter - The Tale of Peter Rabbit (8)
2017 Isaac Newton
2018 Beatrix Potter - Mrs. Tittlemouse
2018 Beatrix Potter - The Tailor of Gloucester (2)
2018 Paddington Bear - Buckingham Palace
2018 Paddington Bear - Station (2)
2018 People Act (3)
2019 Paddington Bear at St. Paul's Cathedral (3)
2019 Paddington Bear at the Tower of London
2019 Sherlock Holmes
2020 Brexit (14)
2020 Diversity Built Britain (12)
2022 Queen's Platinum Jubilee (8)
2022 50 Years of Pride UK (234) (11x20 in sealed bags from the mint)
2022 Life & Legacy of Q.E.II (22)

also
1973 50 Pence , 'Entry into EEC' large size (demonetized) from cashier's tray
1975 10 Pence (large type) instead of a 50p (hole filler)
2008 Britannia (low mintage)

Eastern Caribbean States 1999 , 1 Dollar
Eastern Caribbean States 2000 , 1 Dollar

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I got £100 worth from the bank today. Here is a breakdown:

Definitive coins:
1997 54
1998 11
1999 5
2000 6
2001 22
2002 7
2003 2
2004 5
2005 2
2006 6
2007 4
2008 Britannia 0
2008 Shield 5
2012 13
2013 7
2014 6
2015 Rank-Broadley 5
2015 Jody Clark 11
2017 1
2019 19

Commemorative coins:
2014 Games 1
2016 Squirrel Nutkin 1
2017 Benjamin Bunny 1
2019 Paddington at Tower 1
2019 Sherlock Holmes 1
2020 Diversity 1
2022 Pride 1
2022 Charles III 1

Others:
1977 1

GRAND TOTAL 200

The 1977 old type 50p is the first one I've had in circulation since these coins were officially demonetized in 1998!

It was nice to get my first Pride 50p, also a 2017 shield reverse (mintage 1.8 million), a Charles III 50p and the first Squirrel Nutkin and Sherlock Holmes of the year!
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