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29 Mar 17
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I have a load of mint current £1 cons of various years and designs
Are they worth keeping or cash in before they not currency?
Are they worth keeping or cash in before they not currency?
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You mean will they ever become collectable due to rarity in your lifetime? Hardly likely is it, there are millions of em. My dad left a load of pre decimal bronze coins which were worth more because of the copper content, we weighed em in at the scrappers when copper was high.
I still have a large coin collection (and stamps) here now which I simply don't know what to do with. Spend the pounds on something nice and don't hoard low value junk for decades imo. |
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I'll use them to buy a couple of gold sov for the girls. Thanks Saddo.
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https://www.thesun.co.uk/money/2523342/rarest-most-valuable-pound-coins/
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Thank you web Hubble I have all of them in mint condition.
Perhaps ebay is the answer. Thank you both I'll not bother sitting in them hoping for rarity I'll flog the lot. |
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You could buy em a solid Gold and silver pair of stamp replicas of Princess Annes wedding to Mark Phillips
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Lol are they spot value or more?
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No idea m8, probably spot, which is a shame as they are beautiful things (apart from hoss face). I have silver coins from all over and haven't been able to face getting rid.
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I have a pile of silver coins.
Old sterling ones. 50% and loads of new ones. I was a mug and purchased the garisoppa ones just because of the history. |
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I have to agree with the sitting on worthless junk now I think about it.
I have a vast cd collection that is worth nothing like what I spent. As I've got older I've gone off or got bored if most of it. As bad as interest rates are the money would of been better in the bank. Similar to my watches. Had 12 at one point down to 7 now bit in reality you only wear one or two. Lessons for the girls I think. |
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Depends whether you are collecting or investing. You could do the latter with one expensive watch, and you have something to wear.
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There was an article about rare recent coins in the paper not long ago. Some can be surprisingly valuable, don't be too hasty.
Very quick google and this is just a list from yesterday in The Most Popular Paper In Liverpool https://www.thesun.co.uk/money/2523342/rarest-most-valuable-pound-coins/ Or http://metro.co.uk/2017/03/28/as-new-pound-coins-sell-for-300-heres-the-other-rare-coins-worth-a-fortune-6539821/ |
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buy some crisps - six months to the event
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Thanks just checking that made me look on ebay.
Hilarious the prices people put coins up for. Silly prices so basically just wasting their own time. A Olympics aquatics 50p for £7200. Jokers. |
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Don't believe the description ''rare'' of the coins being offered on ebay.
I looked through my loose change and a third of them are on there. |
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The coins on there are crazy prices.
Why can't people be realistic. |
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Its like the media on about inflated ticket concert prices. They look on eBay and see someone wanting £20,000 for a Justin Bieber ticket and go nuts.
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Doesn't matter if people are mad if people are paying the prices.
Check the boxes for completed listsings and sold on the left so you see not what people are trying to sell them for but what people paid. I've not looked myself for this but I do it for other things (Uranium, Japanese girls knickers, Elvis's toe nail clippings - I collect mundane stuff  ) |
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Yes just seems a waste of their own time if they overprice things.
I think I'll give it a go and list them in groups and see if any sell. Use the proceeds and any that are left to get a few gold sov |
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Exactly jack.
No one would pay it. |
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Just Checking - Probably the best piece of Ebay advice posted over the last several years.
Stuff IS NOT WORTH WHAT PEOPLE ARE ASKING.... it is worth what it sells for (and even that need checking to be sure both seller and buyer are happy) As Just Checking says - do your search then check on sold in the left hand column to see what actually sold and what it sold for, AND whether it is exactly what you have for sale. |
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Thank you all for firing in some ideas.
I might as well cash in on them now if they go up so be it. Life is full of situations like that. Currently having huge spring clean which is great feeling. The CDs will also go to fee up space. Hope you all have a good day. |
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Got a decent amount for the capital city coins.
A good start. |
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All selling well and IMO people laying over the odds at the min.
I am going to clear all my none vintage coins now I think. Can't beat a bit if streamlining. |
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What kind of ones you making cash on i got a few quid coins here doing nothing
Dont look at BUY IT NOWS The auctions are where the real prices come into play |
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The floral ones and capital city ones are going easily.
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Hi Callisto.....
Do people still do this "Spring Cleaning" thing? I remember, back in the day, that it was done mainly because the coal fires that most people had, made everything filthy! |
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Forth road/rail bridge can i sell them for a few bucks?
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Chaser they will sell for more than face value.
Aunty I'm no sure people still do it. I just fancied a big clear out. Have a few collections that I think the money would be better in my girls banks. |
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And my experience is people buy anything on ebay.
The bigger stuff goes yo charity shop. |
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Fuuny old place ebay.
Many if the coins sold way above a realistic value. But the buyers are happy. |
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hi guys ,, i recetly got a new pound coin dated 2016 [dont know how ]as they have only been out a month..will these coins be worth more than the face value
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I doubt it.
People trying to sell them on ebay for hundreds of pounds. Not very realistic. |
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there are reported to be 500 million dated 2016, and will be twice as many with this years date on
so unlikely to be worth much unless you find a mug on ebay |
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Before you cash your old £1 coins in, which you HAVE to do, before or by October, check if any have Edinburgh Castle on the back, with the word "Edinburgh" above it. They're worth around £40. I million were printed which sounds a lot, but it isn't.
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These are selling regularly for £5 to £7 on Ebay. I think it's people paying over the odds because they have read somewhere that they are worth around £40.
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I have 3 EC ones Kenny (these are rare as only had 3 in around 10 years)
about 30 Cardiff around 25 London and Belfast along with the same of the thistle/daffodil/rose/shamrock also lots of two pound ones Have collected these as save up and used them to pay Car insurance/tax each year you can have the lot for £1,000 if you want Kenny |
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ha ha,I've not actually looked into what the £2 are worth so don't know if that's a good offer or not wit-ham.
Anyone recall going through silver coins to find out if there were any pre 1947 ones in their change? Around D-Day. They were worth arond 6 times face value, if memory serves, and the pre 1920 ones were more valuable than that. All to do with the silver content of course. I used to (along with many others) go to various banks asking for bags of silver in exchange for notes. There were quite a lot about and I filled around a quarter of a jam-jar with my haul. Happy days. |
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Oh i'm not including the TWOpounds ones in that Kenny
although a few of those are fairly rare But over the years have had plenty £1 that are worth a few quid except the EC ones |
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You hang on to them mate, or rather don't as they'll be worhless after mid October. They can be worth up to £100 despite what blackbarn says.
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