daveh Posted June 29, 2009 Report Share Posted June 29, 2009 http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK-News/20p-Worth-50-Royal-Mint-Error-Leaves-Coins-Dateless-And-Worth-Its-Value-Many-Times-Over/Article/200906415322389 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shetland123 Posted June 29, 2009 Report Share Posted June 29, 2009 Dont you remember when there was a big thing when the new £2 coins came out?? Some rubbish about the queen wearing a necklet was worth £15! "An Urban MythDuring 1999, we became aware of a persistent rumour that a two pound coin with the queen wearing a necklet was worth £15. There is no truth in this rumour. It is the sort of story which appears to start for no particular reason, and then self-perpetuates in a form of "Chinese whispers", so that it becomes part of an urban folklore of misinformation" I might be wrong but i think its a way of keeping our spirits up in hard times! £50 raid the piggy bank..... ...or.... ....is the banks short of 20pence pieces?? anyway who cares SUCKERS First to get £50 tell us all! sure we would like to hear about it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MuckleJoannie Posted June 29, 2009 Report Share Posted June 29, 2009 According to this BBC story A batch of 20p coins accidentally issued with no date on them could be worth £50 each, say coin collectors. Tens of thousands of the coins have been produced in error by the Royal Mint at Llantrisant, near Cardiff. They are said to be the first undated British coins to enter circulation for more than 300 years. The Royal Mint said the issue had been resolved but wanted to reassure the public that the faulty 20p coins were still legal tender. But with experts saying the coins could be worth up to £50 each, anyone finding an undated 20p may be reluctant to put it towards a loaf of bread. The date on the new 20p was moved from the 'tails' to the 'heads' side when the country's coins were redesigned last year. The coins without a date were created by accidentally pairing up the new 'tails' side with the old 'heads' - meaning no date appeared at all. The London Mint is indeed offering £50 for the first 10,000 coins registered with them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muppet Posted July 2, 2009 Report Share Posted July 2, 2009 Apparently one coin sold for over £7000 pounds on ebay on Tuesday! I had a quick squint at ebay after reading that and there are 30 pages of 50 items a page selling these "rare" coins! Some took my attention when I noticed that it was the old Queens head on them, and it turns out, the 'honest' sellers were advertising them as 'no date on the heads side - No idea what these are worth'. Well, the old coins never had the date on the 'heads' side. It was on the 'tails' side. Because of the new pattern, the new coins should have the date on the 'heads' side, but that seems to where the mistake has got through. Seems there are plenty of suckers out there by the amount of bids they are getting. Oh and if my brain is still functioning at this late hour, if there were 50 000 released in a population of 50 000 000 or so, that gives you a 0.1% chance of owning one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
briantwigley Posted July 6, 2009 Report Share Posted July 6, 2009 Its the same with old 2p's with New Pence from ONLY 1983... some idiots are selling them from dates like 1971 on ebay thinking they're rare... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghostrider Posted July 6, 2009 Report Share Posted July 6, 2009 ^^ The only idiots are anyone who buys a 1971 2p thinking its rare. You can't blame a seller for trying.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whiskin Posted July 6, 2009 Report Share Posted July 6, 2009 Just come across one of the new 20p's on Ebay with a buy it now price of a quarter of a million!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whiskin Posted July 6, 2009 Report Share Posted July 6, 2009 I don't believe it! -- just noticed the highest price paid on Ebay completed listings for a genuine undated 20p was £1.75million on Friday! Are these people for real? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghostrider Posted July 6, 2009 Report Share Posted July 6, 2009 ^^ In a word, "No". Considering one of the sold for £1 Million "But it Now"s was for a standard, normal, well used 2001 dated 20p, and the seller repeatedly rubbed it in that he was just listing it as a joke. An expensive joke for him though, as I would not imagine the buyer has any intentions of paying, and he'll be charged somewhere around £50,000 in selling fees. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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