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The Royal Mint has released the 2010 coins, the 50p for the girl guides, £2 for Florence nightingale. But they are releasing two £1 coins, one for london and one for belfast, and the 2010 coin set includes, none of these two, but the shield design used in 2009. They still have not released the £5 coin for £5 in 2009 which is annoying and means I won't bother with £5 coins any more. Seems the mint is going to way of the US and Canadian mints and releasing more coins of the same series. The £1 coin has followed a pattern of rotation every 5 years and they have broken this.
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I have a lot of catching up to do!
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You can get the 2009 £5 for five pounds from www westminsterorders.com - at least I've just ordered mine - from a flyer that came through the post.
I needed a ref no when ordering - but I have a spare is you want it :)
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Bacchus2, does it cost for delivery? I would assume so!
I was going to wait until xmas to buy a load of things from the mint but I have also found out that the year sets not only are £19.99, a rip off, but they do not even include the £2 or 50p commemoratives, nor the 50p olympic blue peter coin, nor do they contain the two new £1 coins for next year. SO I am not buying that, nor the £5 from Henry, which also means I am not paying postage just for the olympic £5 on its own. And there is really nothing else I wanted expect the n
I think this is called "how to lose a customer through incompetence". They seem think that everyone will shell out for all the little packages. So it now costs £54.97 to get the uncirculated british coins when only three years ago it was £19.99 (and without postage).
I think I will just stick to collecting my coins from circulation, and the mint can.......
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Actually no - the delivery is free
Even though I'm in the UK I don't collect UK coins above and beyond interesting things I get in change.
The only countries I don't collect coins from are the UK and the US.
Malcolm
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11/27/2009 06:53 am
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If I could have the ref number that would be great!
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Try 289/128U/3 ;) This flyer was sent to both my and my mum's addresses so I assume it is just some sort of generic thing
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Westminster does offer each year one of the £5 coins for face value. Basically the use it to get you on their mailing list in hopes you will buy something else from them. I do find that they are very slow to ship the £5 coin. The last few years have been the similar for The Royal Mint. Do wish they would make an affordable set which has all of the British base coins for the year since finding some of the releases in circulation is a pain. Ken |
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They do have the £25 version which has the £2, 50p (girl scouts) and the three pound coins in it. But then the prices are going up every year, this is something like a 66% increase in 2-3 years!
Bacchus2, I looked up at that and it is the coin for the olympics, there was something for the henry VIII coin but it always went to the olympic one with the code, and I may get that from the mint!
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Don't mention it - glad I could be of help
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The Royal Mint has various 2010 sets, and as you mentioned, the BU Set (£24.99) contains the 12 coins. Yes, a little pricy, but due to the exchange rate (£/€) and the free shipping I won't complain yet ... Christian
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12/01/2009 11:58 am
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Maybe that is the problem, I was working in the Euro zone when the pound dropped and guess everyone is expecting the prices to stay the same within the UK. But not so. I am less rich (or at least my British money side is less rich) than it used to be!
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Posted 11/22/2009 3:24 pm
