What Coins To Look For?

Thanks for the reply much appreciated.
Just having a look on ebay at the minute and seems to me that the underground £2 coins seem ok to collect, also the bimatalic? coins are worth keeping hold of?

You forgot the horse Olympic 50p too. Hehe.

If you want to collect circulating coins, they just try and get them all. There are sides like http://en.numista.com/catalogue/ind...t=&dg=&w=&g= which can give you a list of all the coins, also books in Waterstones and other places that can give you information of all the coins.

The Kew Gardens coin went nuts because The Royal Mint did a promotional type thing on it with people paying silly money for a coin that isn't as rare as those who think it's rare think it is (if that makes sense).

Also, some of the older coins like the Commonwealth Games coins from 2002 aren't that easy to get, though I found a few when working in a shop for a few months.

There are a few that are impossibly rare, like the 1998 and 1999 1 pound coins, which were never in circulation. But yeah, there's not much in the way to collect other than £2 and 50ps and the coins from places like the Isle of Man and Gibraltar etc.

Also London Underground £2 - I grabbed some shortly after they came out then saw no more, seems a buoyant market on ebay and they could go up further. One would expect the chuffa-chuff buffs to share a liking here.

Manx/Channel Is./Gibraltar/S. Atlantic coinage is fun to collect though not all are 'worth' above face value e.g. I have seen Gibraltar skull reverse only fetch p+p over face value on ebay. Then again certain other bikers (if that's what you do) might prize them!

There's been some discussion of fake £1 and £2 in other threads. Some have fetched around £10 on ebay with sellers warned they were/probably fake. It is illegal knowingly to pass on or keep fakes without lawful excuse so this is a risqué area. Will current fake £1s become a legitimate commodity when the mono-metallic £1 ceases to be legal tender in 2017 or soon after?

Let's say it can be fun to make one's own assessment of which types would then be worth something, and which would not!

Proof coins can also turn up in circulation, I believe there is a special term for these.

how do people usually tell if a circulating coin was
originally proof? surely it would have lost some of it's
shine/degraded a little?

HH

Very good point about the undated 20p having said that I have sorted through a lot of 20 pence pieces and so far ......

Has anyone found an undated 20p in circulation recently ?