Uk~ Interesting Find From The Circulation In The Uk~

You did well to get Flopsy and Peter Rabbit with the Radishes - both those are already quite scarce. They made less of both of those, and also Mrs Tittlemouse, than they did of Jemima Puddleduck, and they are already selling for £10 each or more.

Paddington at St Pauls is pretty common, as is him at the Tower of London - you should get that fairly easily.

The Brexit coin should be very common - they are making 10M of them, so five times as common as Jemima.

I needed to go to the bank today so decided to get £20 in 50p coins. I didn't want to get too many, as (a) I was on my pushbike, and (b) the branch I visited is normally my 'dump bank' and I was worried I might get back some coins I dumped a few weeks ago.

One of the £10 bags was quite normal, without a single commemorative. The other was amazing! Nothing valuable, but 12 of the 20 coins were commemoratives!

3 x 2019 Paddington at St Paul's
1 x 2019 Paddington at Tower of London *** Collection Addition! ***
2 x 2019 Sherlock Holmes
1 x 2018 Paddington at Station
1 x 2018 Tailor of Gloucester
1 x 2017 Mr Jeremy Fisher
1 x 2006 Victoria Cross soldier
2 x 2005 Johnson's Dictionary

I've never had so many commemoratives in one bag before, except for two occasions when I've been given a sealed bag of Uncirculated 50p's. Maybe someone was saving them and then decided to bank them...

Picked up a Sherlock Holmes 50p this morning that must be the nicest example I've found - it is absolutely stunning.

I haven't had one yet! I got out £100 in 50p's and £20 in 20p's from the bank yesterday. No interesting 50p's and only four commemoratives - two Benjamin Bunnies and two Tom Kittens! The 20p's were more interesting - I got a 1988 Gibraltar and an addition for my collection - a 2004 Isle of Man showing Castle Rushen Clock!

Congratulations, tenbobbit! I have never had a Shakespeare Comedy coin in circulation!

No new finds of late, though have got people looking out for me. Annoyingly they keep producing NIFCs and charging extortionate amounts for them, which I simply refuse to pay. The Royal Mint has really gone down in my estimation in these past few years - it used to be that all 50ps and £2s got released and if you wanted a slightly nicer one then you'd buy it - it was good for the collecting hobby as a whole because younger collectors could afford to save the odd 50p/£1/£2 they got and they were happy because they didn't need to pay £10+ for each design, even if their's might be circulated. Those who had the funds could buy the uncirculated examples, though it wasn't really required if you wanted to get all the designs. Nowadays, there are so many coins being produced that aren't released that it can be quite demoralising, knowing that your collection is missing a bunch of designs that you are unable to obtain through honest searching, and being unable to buy the plethora of "collector's editions". I started collecting when I was a young child, and would get really excited when I got a new design, often using most of my pocket money swapping for designs I needed (and it was affordable). The Royal Mint claims to want to encourage collectors, but by doing acts like this they are only serving to put people off, since they may reason that there's no point in only being able to get a partially complete set without resorting to paying through the nose.

It's a fake, but a very good one. As you may know, only BUNC etc £1 were released for that year; MOST 1998s found in circulation were fakes. And that remains true even if one EXCLUDES some inferior fakes that had a spoofed Jersey 1998 obverse and wrong reverses, which were also numerous. More information here: http://www.thefakepoundcoindatabase...rieties.html

Not had any decent finds of late, largely due to not leaving the house very much at all. However, I'm quite disappointed to see the level of hoarding that goes on - one youtuber (who people may be aware of) recently displayed his entire collection, and had ridiculous numbers of some coins from his coin hunts. Whilst he's entitled to do as he pleases with his money, it really disheartened me to see because it just is ridiculously excessive (he had nearly 200 Mrs Tiggywinkles - no wonder it took me ages to find one with people like this around). Save the best ones, sure, but do you really need THAT many copies of a particular coin? Cash a load of them in and purchase coins you don't have, instead of hoarding the same coins. I was further disappointed to see that, not only did he himself think it acceptable, a lot of people in the comments were bigging him up and telling him how amazing his "collection" was. It's people like this that are going to end up killing coin collecting through their greedy ways - hoarding so many coins reduces the chance of others finding them, and new collectors being formed. If he'd kept say, the best 10, fine - but he had 438 of one particular design which is way more than anyone needs.

Sorry, wanted to rant about this