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United States
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Personally, it seems to me that The Royal Mint is about as overpriced as the US mint. 8 pounds is about $16. Most bimetallic 2 pound British coins are worth $5 Unc., maybe a bit more BU. Even if the BU price is double the Unc., that's still only $10. Unless the middle is silver, but I don't see anything to indicate that it is, then it doesn't seem worth it, to me. |
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I'm not really into coins that have a lot of words and nothing else on them. The actual lettering is nice, but the 2009 coins was writing only along with the 2005 50p. I do like the other £2 coin, the mary rose, I think the boat is okay, but the lettering and old style border make it a little more classy! Have you seen the WWF coin, no, not wrestling, but wildlife, I like that a lot more, though it'll probably not be seen in circulation. http://www.royalmint.com/store/Brit...UKWWFBU.aspx |
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Silver girl, you can buy all 13 coins, for £25 which is $40 at today's rate. That is all the normal circulating coins, 1p, 2p, 5p, 10p, 20p, 50p, three £1 and three £2. So you can buy just under £10 for £25, so each coin is up 2.5 times its normal value or something like that! Buying each individually is quite expensive!
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I do know this. For this year's £5 coin they asked for a portrait. The guy who designed it did two portraits and one other coin which he slipped in for the heck of it, they chose the other coin.
This year's £5 coin is a portrait. 2008 had a prince Charles portrait. You get the theme?
It seems they stick with what they believe is successful and seem to be afraid of choosing coins that might be a little more artistic!
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Oh and a little bit of irony, the day after we find out about the 2011 coins, prince william says he's getting married, so there'll be another coin for that!
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United Kingdom
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The worst kept secret of the 21st century!
It had already been murmured that the mint was preparing designs for a commemorative £5 coin to celebrate the nuptuals next year.
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Do you think they'll have a picture of kate being chased by the paparazzi with william pretending to be george and the paparazzi being the dragon, sort of classic soveriegn style?
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Posted 11/15/2010 6:30 pm
