Looked through your loose change recently ?

Ron Goldstein · 02-07-2009, 09:13 AM

Did you spot this item in the Press the other day ?

Looked at my 20p pieces, the pic shows one of them, and as you can see the date is clearly shown and so all the coin is worth is the face value of 20p

Start looking !

Ron

Bodston · 02-07-2009, 09:17 AM

There was a bloke at work yesterday checking everybody's pockets, I wondered what that was all about.

Drew5233 · 02-07-2009, 10:20 AM

Hahaha The Mrs's has just handed me a jar full of 20p's !

geoff501 · 03-07-2009, 12:51 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ron Goldstein

so all the coin is worth is the face value of 20p

I have a couple of bags of 1p and 2P which I believe have a scrap value greater than the face value (new coins are copper coated steel).

I've never understood why the treasury does not get the mint to create wacky coins. They could sell these on ebay and be a nice little earner. Is there a 1960s one old penny from one year that only got minted in small quantities (one I think) and is worth a fortune?

phylo_roadking · 03-07-2009, 02:14 AM

Here's one for all the members from Northern Ireland...

You know the "indestructible" Northern Bank "Space Shuttle" fivers? The blue ones with the see-through plastic bit? Apparently dealers and collectors will now pay anything up to £20 for them!!! And there's plenty still around!

For other members - about twelve years ago, a local bank here was bought over by foreign owners, and they decided to revamp the bank's notes...in particular the £5 note, for they were too easily damaged and too expensive to keep replacing. So they produced a batch of 25,000 PLASTIC five-pound notes from a foreign "manufacturer" that were to be indestructible.

Not like the old Isle-Of-Man £1 "indestructible" plastic paper notes....that as schoolboys we discovered COULD be "worried" apart into two layers LOL these were one-layer plastic, with a fancy star-shaped insert that a counterfeiter couldn't replicate... and a very fancy Space Shuttle-based design that had absolutely NOTHING to do with Northern Ireland or the Northern Bank's heritage...

Only one teensy weensy leetle problem...

The plastic note didn't "grab" in the rollers of ATMs!!! So it was a complete dead-end, none of the bank's other larger denomination notes appeared...but the fivers have proved REALLY to be indestructible and are STILL in circulation!!!

http://aes.iupui.edu/rwise/banknotes...ank-1999_b.jpg

-tmm- · 03-07-2009, 09:23 AM

I know of someone who had 5 of the buggers...

And someone else sold one for £7,100 on eBay

marcus69x · 03-07-2009, 09:41 AM

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Originally Posted by -tmm-

And someone else sold one for £7,100 on eBay

I'd heard that too. I don't understand why someone would pay that much when the royal mint will only pay £50 back?

I've heard they're gonna be worth a lot more in years to come.

marcus69x · 03-07-2009, 09:41 AM

Guess I've just answered my own question....

-tmm- · 03-07-2009, 12:46 PM

I guessing rare coin collectors are wanting to snap them up quickly..before they become really rare.

Smudger Jnr · 03-07-2009, 03:20 PM

[quote=geoff501;207773]I have a couple of bags of 1p and 2P which I believe have a scrap value greater than the face value (new coins are copper coated steel).
quote]

Geoff,

Are they steel? I was always under the impression the alloy was copper/ nickel.

Regards
Tom

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phylo_roadking Very Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: feels like Brigadoon! Posts: 1,264	Here's one for all the members from Northern Ireland... You know the "indestructible" Northern Bank "Space Shuttle" fivers? The blue ones with the see-through plastic bit? Apparently dealers and collectors will now pay anything up to £20 for them!!! And there's plenty still around! For other members - about twelve years ago, a local bank here was bought over by foreign owners, and they decided to revamp the bank's notes...in particular the £5 note, for they were too easily damaged and too expensive to keep replacing. So they produced a batch of 25,000 PLASTIC five-pound notes from a foreign "manufacturer" that were to be indestructible. Not like the old Isle-Of-Man £1 "indestructible" plastic paper notes....that as schoolboys we discovered COULD be "worried" apart into two layers LOL these were one-layer plastic, with a fancy star-shaped insert that a counterfeiter couldn't replicate... and a very fancy Space Shuttle-based design that had absolutely NOTHING to do with Northern Ireland or the Northern Bank's heritage... Only one teensy weensy leetle problem... The plastic note didn't "grab" in the rollers of ATMs!!! So it was a complete dead-end, none of the bank's other larger denomination notes appeared...but the fivers have proved REALLY to be indestructible and are STILL in circulation!!! http://aes.iupui.edu/rwise/banknotes...ank-1999_b.jpg

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