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I needed to go to the bank yesterday and decided to get a £250 bag of 50p coins to sort through. Nothing spectacular, but quite fun. The best find was a 2011 Gymnastics 50p in AU. I also got a really nice 2015 Battle of Britain coin that looked as if it had just come out of the Mint. But I didn't get a single Brexit or Diversity 50p!
Here's a full rundown.
1997 179
1998 23
1999 11
2000 10
2001 35
2002 12
2003 6
2004 15
2005 10
2006 9
2007 4
2008 Britannia 1
2008 shield 11
2012 29
2013 14
2014 22
2015 Rank-Broadley 9
2015 Jody Clark 18
2017 0
2019 55
2000 Libraries 1
2004 Bannister 1
2005 Dictionary 3
2006 VC Medal 1
2007 Scouts 2
2011 Olympics 1
2013 Britten 1
2014 Com Games 1
2015 Battle Br. 2
2017 Benjamin 6
2017 Jeremy 1
2017 Peter 4
2019 Paddington Tower 1
2019 Paddington St Pauls 1
1997 Guernsey 1
TOTAL 500
Edited by NumisRob
01/23/2021 09:37 am
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The Diversity one is certainly around in some numbers - I haven't really handled much change since lockdown, but got one from the newsagents last week. Surprised to see no Sherlock in your list - I seem to get those all the time.
I got the Dickens £2 coin in change today - not scarce but a while since I have seen one. (I have all the circulation and most of the packet only £2s and 50ps already, so finding them now is just idle curiosity!)
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Surprised to see no Sherlock in your list - I seem to get those all the time. You never can tell with just 500 coins. I've found more Sherlock Holmes coins altogether since 2019 than Paddington at the Tower ones. I got a 2014 Trinity House £2 coin in change yesterday - my first commemorative £2 for a while.
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Pardon my ignorance as an American, but why is there nothing older than 1997? It appears to me that there hasn't been a change in composition since 1969.
Edit: Never mind, I answered my own question. Looks like the size was changed.
Edited by Numisma
01/23/2021 11:54 am
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Looks like the size was changed. That's correct. The original larger 50p was replaced by a smaller coin in 1997.
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That is great, quite a good mix there and see you have got a 2008 Britannia, those are quite scarce apparently. Interesting too just how many of the 1997's are still in circulation, that was a huge mintage for that year.
No Kew Gardens though (Joke)
There is a guy on Youtube called Coin Patrol who does regular buy ins to get coins for his collection and he always finds too many Benjamin Bunnies, which makes me laugh.
Loving Halfcrowns. British and Commonwealth coins 1750 - 1950 and anything Kiwi.
If it's round, shiny and silvery I will love it.
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Diversity coins are a mystery for me. I haven't got a single one in my coin hunts and I usually get £500 from the bank! A couple of the guys I know online have received an entire bag of diversity coins. Maybe it was released in specific areas?
Ended up buying a pack of 20 diversity coins at slightly higher than face value from someone willing to share the loot :)
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Got another £250 bag of 50p coins today. Here are the results!
Definitive coins:
1997 172
1998 25
1999 17
2000 13
2001 38
2002 8
2003 11
2004 12
2005 8
2006 13
2007 3
2008 Britannia 2
2008 Shield 11
2012 19
2013 11
2014 30
2015 Rank-Broadley 11
2015 Jody Clark 19
2017 1
2019 45
Commemorative coins:
2000 Libraries 2
2004 Roger Bannister 1
2005 Dictionary 1
2006 VC Medal 1
2007 Scouts 3
2010 Guides 1
2011 Olympics 2 (Gymnastics & Taekwondo)
2013 Ironside 1
2016 Team GB 1
2016 Battle of Hastings 1
2016 Peter Rabbit 1
2017 Benjamin Bunny 2
2017 Tom Kitten 1
2017 Tale of Peter Rabbit 3
2018 Paddington at Palace 1
2019 Paddington at St Paul's 2
2019 Sherlock Holmes 1
2020 Brexit 4
Others:
1997 Jersey 1
1997 Guernsey 1
GRAND TOTAL 500
First time I've ever found Brexit coins in bags from the bank. Still no Diversity coins!
Edited by NumisRob
02/24/2021 2:06 pm
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I have had 3 or 4 Diversity 50ps in change here. They don't seem that rare - on Ebay there are dozens for sale from £50 down to 50p each (plus postage) and even at 50p unsold!
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I've had a couple of diversity coins in my change and lastOctober I hit the jackpot, a Kew
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Posted 01/23/2021 05:24 am
1997 JERSEY 50 PENCE COIN GROSNEZ CASTLE CIRCULATED MINTAGE 1500000
1997 GUERNSEY 50 PENCE COIN FREESIA FLOWERS CIRCULATED MINTAGE 1044000
2016 GB SHAKESPEARE HISTORY 2 COIN CIRCULATED MINTAGE 4615000 NOT AN ERROR
2014 GB TRINITY HOUSE 2 COIN CIRCULATED MINTAGE 3705000 NOT RARE OR ERROR
2007 GB ACT OF UNION 2 COIN CIRCULATED MINTAGE 7545000 NOT RARE OR ERROR
