"On Crafting A UK Typeset" & "This Yankee Is Getting Dizzy"

Thanks for the info, Ben.

It's late here, and I should number my questions before letting going to bed and seeing what others have to say overnight PST/this morning GMT, then I'll see where I go from there in picking dates for my typeset to try and get.

My 1998 penny turned out steel.

"This Yankee is getting dizzy" -
CCF is a great place to ask questions.

If you are looking for a type set, it depends on how deep you want to go. For example, a basic type set of the ordinary 2p coin might look like this:

1. 1971-1981. Machin portrait, "NEW PENCE" legend, bronze
2. 1982-1984 as above but "TWO PENCE" legend from here onwards.
3. 1985-1991 Maklouf portrait, bronze
4. 1992-1997 Maklouf portrait, steel planchet coated with copper ( cheaper )
5. 1998-2008 as above but Rank-broadley portrait.
6. 2008+ as above but new reverse design ( part shield ).
Some 1998 coins were made in bronze, presumably to use up old planchets.

Type sets for other coins will be similar. 50p reduced in size 1997, 10p reduced in size 1992, 5p reduced in size 1990. Not all years made for circulation, some available only in the uncirculated sets. 5p and 10p made in nickel-coated steel from 2011.

There are lots of commemorative 50p and £2 coins, and until 2008 the £1 coins changed every year.

Hope this helps.

Depends what you mean by "ordinary". I'd say circulating coins are "ordinary", if you mean non-commemorative coins then maybe there are 50 or so.

Right, augsburger, ordinary = non-comemorative.

Not going for commemorative or error varieties.

I think I have it now. All the major types of UK decimal coinage that I may want to obtain sometime in the future and the date brackets:

1) (1968, 1969, or 1971) - 1981: Machin portrait, "New X Pence" legend,
Half-penny, penny, 2p, 5p, 10p, 50p -- 6 coins

2) 1982-1984: as above but "X PENCE" legend
Half-penny, penny, 2p, 5p, 10p, 20p, 50p, pound (1983) -- 8 coins

3) 1985-1991: Maklouf portrait "Coppers" of Actual Bronze
Penny, 2p -- 2 coins

4) 1992-1997: Maklouf portrait "Coppers" of copper plated steel
Penny, 2p -- 2 coins

5) Maklouf portrait Large / Small size:
5p: 1985 - 1990 / 1990-1997
10p: 1985 - 1992 / 1990-1997
50p: 1985 - 1997 / 1997 -- 6 coins here

6) 1985 - 1997: Maklouf portrait, unchanged
20p, pound -- 2 coins

7) 1998-2008: Rank-broadley portrait, original reverses
Penny, 2p, 5p, 10p, 20p, 50p, pound -- 7 coins

8) 2008 - present: Rank-broadley portrait, Shield set reverse
Penny, 2p, 5p, 10p, 20p, 50p, pound -- 7 coins

9) Ni plated steel replaces cupronickle
2011: 5p and 10p -- 2 coins
20?: 20p and 50p (probably eventualy, lol)

Looks like 42 coins total, 43 if I want to include the 2 pound coin.

Compared to that mess, the pre-decimal Queen Elizabeth II coins should be easy for me to get a handle on, unless we have some composition changes there from her coronation till Decimal day in addition to the switch from Gillick to Machin portraits.

I probably wont do the commemoratives, but I'll keep you in mind, Ben.

Anaximander - I've only ever had 2 1988 £1s in my change - they are a great design! nearly the same as the new style. I thought they were commemorative for ages!