St Georges Cathedral 2 Pound Coin With 2 Minting Errors.

Hello and to the Forum! This is a great place to start if you want to learn about coins!

Do you mean the St Paul's Cathedral £2 coin issued in 2005, like this one?


Firstly, there is no such thing as the writing on the rim being upside down. It's completely random. The writing goes onto the blanks before the coins are struck, and the blanks are then fed into a hopper and pass between the dies. So roughly half the coins will have the writing the right way up in relation to the obverse, and the other half the right way up in relation to the reverse.

The dots around the Queen's head quite often get lost in the join between the two metals and this doesn't normally make the coin of any extra value, unless it's a really spectacular error. We'll need a good photo to judge if your coin has such an error.

Unfortunately some people have been putting ordinary coins from their pocket change on ebay for ridiculous prices and certain tabloid papers have printed inaccurate reports that some coins are very valuable.

Entirely with Numisrob here, unfortunately the reports are grossly exaggerated and many times completely incorrect. Nevertheless, don't let this dissuade you - there are goodies out there if you look hard enough!

to the community, too :)

Thanks for all the replies guys, id send a picture, but my phone camera sucks so I cant really get the details in lol. I did have my suspicions about the article, so thanks for clearing everything up. At least I now know just to spend it on choccos or somthing, instead of holding onto it, cheers all. :D