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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
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I have seen a tentative of 2018 Royal Mint coin releases which listed x6 different £2 coins and x2 50 pence coins along with thoughts about x4 Beatrix Potter 50 pence coins. So on a site I posted what I heard with themes of the coins in a thread and my post was edited since there is an embargo from The Royal Mint about such listings. Has anyone ever heard of this? |
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Pillar of the Community
Germany
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I've heard of embargoes, I once got sent a questionnaire about likes and dislikes and posted it on a forum and some Royal Mint person then got angry with me about it. I've not heard anything about next year's coins, they used to release this stuff around now, but in the past few years they've been much later. |
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Pillar of the Community
 United Kingdom
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Here is what I heard to expect:
50 Pence 100th Anniversary of the Representation of the Peoples Act
50 Pence 60th Anniversary of Paddington Bear
50 Pence - four more Beatrix Potter coins
2 Pound RAF Centenary
2 Pound 100th Anniversary of the Royal Airforce Spitfire
2 Pound 100th Anniversary of the First World War Armistice
2 Pound 100th Anniversary of the Royal Air Force Vulcan
2 Pound 250th Anniversary of Captain Cooks Voyage of Discovery
2 Pound 100th Anniversary of the Royal Air Force Sea King
5 Pound 65th Anniversary of the Queen's Coronation
5 Pound Four Generation of Royalty
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
516 Posts |
They're dragging these Beatrix Potter coins out too much... Do we need 4 more?
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Pillar of the Community
Germany
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It seems to me that the four £2 RAF Centenary/Spitfire/Vulcan/Sea King will be part of a set.
My question: Why didn't they include an aircraft from WWI in the series? Will the RAF coin show one?
I don't understand the RM's fascination with Beatrix Potter either.
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
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>>I don't understand the RM's fascination with Beatrix Potter either.
The fascination is that they sell well....
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Pillar of the Community
Germany
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The fascination is that they sell well... Okay. That explains it all. |
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Bedrock of the Community
Australia
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It seems that The Royal Mint is slowly slipping into the issuing habits of the RCM and the RAM. That's sad.  If they are going to do these things, they should be issued into general circulation in base metals, so the whole public can appreciate or criticize. At least, the Mints would be in a better position to introduce kids to coin collecting / numismatics, with face value general circulation issues. |
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
1682 Posts |
Are there any famous RAF planes from WWI to put on a coin?
They do tend to release them to circulation sometimes that I make one a lower mintage:
Jemima Puddle-Duck 2,100,000
Squirrel Nutkin 5,000,000
150th Anniversary of Beatrix Potter 6,900,000
Mrs Tiggy-Winkle 8,800,000
Peter Rabbit 9,600,000
Why not an even amount of each coin?
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
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Sel, all of the 50p and £2's in Ken's list are expected to be circulating. Whilst we may not like the Potter 50p's due to them being opportunist, they are attracting new collectors into the market. Royal Mint do however produce far too much NCLT nowadays - marketed as "investment". When I first started collecting if I asked for British decimal coins for sale very often I got a "what are you bothering with them for" attitude from the dealers - Now 20 years later they are best sellers. |
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Bedrock of the Community
Australia
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That especially applies to kids, because that is what they first understand, when it comes to coins collecting.
For kids, it has to be unsophisticated, and readily accessible.
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Pillar of the Community
Germany
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If you're going to have a 100th anniversary of the RAF, have one coin with a plane from 100 years ago. It's ridiculous to have the Spitfire or Vulcan on there. But yes, I agree, the mint has reached the point of pumping things out so much that it's not so interesting any more.
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
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So the other place had an updated post with a list of £2 coins for 2018
2 Pound 100th Anniversary of the Royal Airforce
2 Pound 100th Anniversary of the Royal Airforce - Spitfire
2 Pound 100th Anniversary of the Royal Air Force - Vulcan
2 Pound 100th Anniversary of the Royal Air Force - Sea King
2 Pound 100th Anniversary of the Royal Air Force - Lightning II
2 Pound 200th Anniversary of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
2 Pound 100th Anniversary of the First World War - Armistice
2 Pound 250th Anniversary of Captain Cooks Voyage of Discovery (1768-2018)
Edited by kena
11/18/2017 2:20 pm
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Pillar of the Community
Germany
992 Posts |
Good luck finding all eight coins in actual circulation...
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Moderator
 Australia
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For the RCM, the "embargo" is in effect because it releases new info to their "Master's Club" of premium VIP customers; those customers sign an agreement not to disclose Masters Club material to outsiders. If The Royal Mint has a similar arrangement, then yes, they probably do have an embargo on special premium-grade news. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
1319 Posts |
The "embargo" (if you can call it that) is because news of next years new issues leaked - before they were officially announced by the mint.
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