Help With Older Type Of £2 Coins.

Those £2 never circulated so I doubt its from change. THe frosted ones are proof coins - 'Proof' means 'Frosted' after about 1975 or something when they started using the frosted proof things.

Thanks for the info. Some of the series did circulate and they still occaisionaly turn up in change behind the bar. That's what started the whole discusion off, a football type turned up. The landlady showed it to me and said she had quite a few. Hearing this the other guy told us about his. Next weekend the landlady will let me know if hers have both types of head or not.

The coins I saw all looked circulated, with scratches and a general used look. Would proofs in a worn state (possibly EF) still be worth more than the non-proof of the same year? Usually proofs are well looked after. The coin seller I buy most of my coins from doesn't usually put a grade on proofs. But again I don't collect proofs so don't know much about them. I think he only puts a grade if the proof is below Unc. Whoever put proofs into circulation must have kicked themselves if they ever realised what they had done. The whole thing seems stranger the more I think about it.