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New Member
United Kingdom
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Can anyone tell me how much it's worth I believe it's very rare   |
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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I believe the edge writing can be either way up.
Some do have the wrong writing on the edge though.
'THE WHOLE CITY IN DREADFUL FLAMES'
which was intended for the 2016 Great Fire of London £2.
Edited by triggersmob
09/11/2022 07:32 am
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Bedrock of the Community
Canada
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 to the CCF As the edge lettering is done at a different stage from the minting of the coin, it is 50-50 which way the writing can read. |
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New Member
 United Kingdom
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I've seen similar ones sell on ebay from £250-£5000 mark Edge reads for king and country |
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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Probably money laundering. I can see the same coin on ebay, sold twice for £3500 on 2 different dates, both with only 1 bid. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Probably money laundering. How does that work? |
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
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You find some intangible item, list it on ebay - sell it for a ridiculous amount to your friend in another country - then the money is moved to or from the UK for a seemingly genuine reason. Or if you have lots of cash from illicit sources, you tell the nice police man "that's my ebay account, where I had this from." Edited by andyg
09/11/2022 2:24 pm
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Bedrock of the Community
United Kingdom
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As the edge lettering is done at a different stage from the minting of the coin,
it is 50-50 which way the writing can read.  It's a common spendable coin, worth £2. You may get a little more than that on ebay if an overseas collector, who can't easily get one in change, wants one for his collection. I think I once put one on ebay as an auction starting at £2 and it sold for £3 to a collector in France. lb8787 - there's a useful guide to £2 coins here: https://www.checkyourchange.co.uk/2-pound-coins/ |
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
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Yes, common currency and worth face value only.
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 Australia
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Just to confirm what the others have stated: the edge inscription on late 20th century and 21st century British coins is placed onto the edge by a separate process at the mint. This happens after the coin is struck. The struck coin tumbles randomly though the machine before the edge inscription is added, meaning that the orientation of the script is random, and the location of the start of the text is also random. There is therefore no "upside down", because there is no officially defined "right way up", and there is no "too far round", because there is no officially defined "correct position" it should be starting from.
Grab yourself several identical 1 pound or 2 pound coins, examine their edges, and see for yourself. Chances are, each one is different.
Earlier British coins with inscribed edges, such as silver crowns from Queen Victoria's time, do have officially defined alignments and orientations, because those inscriptions were imparted by the collar die, rather than being engraved in a separate step. So some of those earlier coins can, and do, have such varieties. And even here, these varieties rarely sell for thousands of pounds.
Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
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