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Bedrock of the Community
United Kingdom
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I needed to go to the bank yesterday and decided to get a £250 bag of 50p coins to sort through. Nothing spectacular, but quite fun. The best find was a 2011 Gymnastics 50p in AU. I also got a really nice 2015 Battle of Britain coin that looked as if it had just come out of the Mint. But I didn't get a single Brexit or Diversity 50p!
Here's a full rundown.
1997 179
1998 23
1999 11
2000 10
2001 35
2002 12
2003 6
2004 15
2005 10
2006 9
2007 4
2008 Britannia 1
2008 shield 11
2012 29
2013 14
2014 22
2015 Rank-Broadley 9
2015 Jody Clark 18
2017 0
2019 55
2000 Libraries 1
2004 Bannister 1
2005 Dictionary 3
2006 VC Medal 1
2007 Scouts 2
2011 Olympics 1
2013 Britten 1
2014 Com Games 1
2015 Battle Br. 2
2017 Benjamin 6
2017 Jeremy 1
2017 Peter 4
2019 Paddington Tower 1
2019 Paddington St Pauls 1
1997 Guernsey 1
TOTAL 500
Edited by NumisRob
01/23/2021 09:37 am
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
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The Diversity one is certainly around in some numbers - I haven't really handled much change since lockdown, but got one from the newsagents last week. Surprised to see no Sherlock in your list - I seem to get those all the time.
I got the Dickens £2 coin in change today - not scarce but a while since I have seen one. (I have all the circulation and most of the packet only £2s and 50ps already, so finding them now is just idle curiosity!)
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Bedrock of the Community
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Surprised to see no Sherlock in your list - I seem to get those all the time. You never can tell with just 500 coins. I've found more Sherlock Holmes coins altogether since 2019 than Paddington at the Tower ones. I got a 2014 Trinity House £2 coin in change yesterday - my first commemorative £2 for a while. |
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Pardon my ignorance as an American, but why is there nothing older than 1997? It appears to me that there hasn't been a change in composition since 1969.
Edit: Never mind, I answered my own question. Looks like the size was changed.
Edited by Numisma
01/23/2021 11:54 am
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Looks like the size was changed. That's correct. The original larger 50p was replaced by a smaller coin in 1997. |
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That is great, quite a good mix there and see you have got a 2008 Britannia, those are quite scarce apparently. Interesting too just how many of the 1997's are still in circulation, that was a huge mintage for that year.
No Kew Gardens though (Joke)
There is a guy on Youtube called Coin Patrol who does regular buy ins to get coins for his collection and he always finds too many Benjamin Bunnies, which makes me laugh.
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Diversity coins are a mystery for me. I haven't got a single one in my coin hunts and I usually get £500 from the bank! A couple of the guys I know online have received an entire bag of diversity coins. Maybe it was released in specific areas?
Ended up buying a pack of 20 diversity coins at slightly higher than face value from someone willing to share the loot :)
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Bedrock of the Community
United Kingdom
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Got another £250 bag of 50p coins today. Here are the results!
Definitive coins:
1997 172
1998 25
1999 17
2000 13
2001 38
2002 8
2003 11
2004 12
2005 8
2006 13
2007 3
2008 Britannia 2
2008 Shield 11
2012 19
2013 11
2014 30
2015 Rank-Broadley 11
2015 Jody Clark 19
2017 1
2019 45
Commemorative coins:
2000 Libraries 2
2004 Roger Bannister 1
2005 Dictionary 1
2006 VC Medal 1
2007 Scouts 3
2010 Guides 1
2011 Olympics 2 (Gymnastics & Taekwondo)
2013 Ironside 1
2016 Team GB 1
2016 Battle of Hastings 1
2016 Peter Rabbit 1
2017 Benjamin Bunny 2
2017 Tom Kitten 1
2017 Tale of Peter Rabbit 3
2018 Paddington at Palace 1
2019 Paddington at St Paul's 2
2019 Sherlock Holmes 1
2020 Brexit 4
Others:
1997 Jersey 1
1997 Guernsey 1
GRAND TOTAL 500
First time I've ever found Brexit coins in bags from the bank. Still no Diversity coins!
Edited by NumisRob
02/24/2021 2:06 pm
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United Kingdom
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I have had 3 or 4 Diversity 50ps in change here. They don't seem that rare - on ebay there are dozens for sale from £50 down to 50p each (plus postage) and even at 50p unsold! |
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I've had a couple of diversity coins in my change and lastOctober I hit the jackpot, a Kew
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Bedrock of the Community
United Kingdom
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Got 500 50p coins from the bank yesterday. Here is the result:
Definitive coins:
1997 176
1998 23
1999 10
2000 10
2001 41
2002 5
2003 12
2004 16
2005 6
2006 14
2007 11
2008 Britannia 1
2008 Shield 16
2012 26
2013 8
2014 31
2015 Rank-Broadley 23
2015 Jody Clark 31
2017 1
2019 15
Commemorative coins:
2000 Libraries 2
2004 Roger Bannister 2
2005 Dictionary 1
2006 VC Medal 2
2007 Scouts 1
2013 Ironside 1
2013 Benjamin Britten 1
2014 Games 1
2015 Battle of Britain 1
2017 Benjamin Bunny 5
2017 Tom Kitten 1
2017 Tale of Peter Rabbit 2
2018 Paddington at Palace 1
2018 Representation of People 3
I'm pretty sure these coins had all been quite recently paid in, as the bag had been stamped by the branch where I got it, and only a few days earlier. It seems quite a random selection with about the normal ratio of commemorative to definitive coins. No 2019 commemoratives showed up and no 2020 coins of any type. Altogether now I've found 5 Brexit coins in circulation but still no Diversities.
Edited by NumisRob
04/14/2021 04:48 am
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