Why Is My London Mint Coin Collection Only Worth A Tenth Of

If the original poster had simply gone into a local coin shop once a month to spend his 3,000 Pounds, he would have gotten a good deal of it back when he went to sell, and learned his lesson bit by bit, instead of all at once.

Best thing he can do is to sell the stuff for what he can get for it, today, and put the 300 Pounds towards a debt or down payment, something like that, and chalk it up to experience.

If I had a dollar for every dollar I've ever wasted, I'd be just about even by now...

The "London Mint" is just like the "Franklin Mint" over here in the States. They sell overpriced crap and "collectables" which are worth a fraction of what their retail prices are (which are inflated to begin with to recoup advertising).

A large portion of their business model seems to be explicitly about exploiting people who don't know better.