undated 20p on ebay (mine)

[blazey]

Originally Posted by Neil

If I was in charge of the mint I would produce 1,000,000 of them to make all the undated ones worth 20p again

Haha that'd be brilliant

[Retlaw]

Originally Posted by Neil

If I was in charge of the mint I would produce 1,000,000 of them to make all the undated ones worth 20p again

Full page spread in todays Daily Express showing the difference in the coins, the Royal Mint is offering £50 for each returned coin.

Retlaw.

[blazey]

Originally Posted by Retlaw

Full page spread in todays Daily Express showing the difference in the coins, the Royal Mint is offering £50 for each returned coin.

Retlaw.

But you can get £150 for them on eBay

[Retlaw]

Originally Posted by blazey

But you can get £150 for them on eBay

And I'll bet a lot of folk have been done as well, buying scam coins.
Retlaw.

[ian1]

one went for 5k on news today !!
ian

[blazey]

Originally Posted by Retlaw

And I'll bet a lot of folk have been done as well, buying scam coins.
Retlaw.

I should've thought of that. I'm proper skint until I start work.

[jedimaster]

just got me hands one one of these and did a bit of research
what did yours eventually go for?

it is the london mint company that is offering the £50 NOT the royal mint the london mint company is a consortium of coin collectors seking to cap the selling price of these coins and get their hands on as many as they can to sell at an inflated price to collectors

originally the offer was only open to the first 10000 people who sold their coins to the consortium very shortly afterwards the added another 15000 opportunities to sell up
proof that given time these coins will be worth a mint themselves


anyone willing to part with ooooooh lets say start the bidding at a cool million send me a pm and maybe we can do business lol

[cmonstanley]

its been took off

[MargaretR]

My son sold an ordinary (dated) 20p on ebay and made 90p profit(after P&P)

[emzy]

Originally Posted by MargaretR

My son sold an ordinary (dated) 20p on ebay and made 90p profit(after P&P)

Ive seen a few ordinary one get sold for a little more than what they are worth. Might start randomly listing the coins that I get, might make a couple of quid

[accyman]

one guy is selling normal 20p coins for £50 each on buy it now and is making quite a good go out of it lol

he syas exactly what it is so people buying it cant complain , they shoudl just learn to read things more carefully

[Neil]

A bit like this plonker selling standard coins 20P COIN 2008 UNDATED SHIELD SIDE on eBay (end time 26-Jul-09 19:14:01 BST)

[emzy]

Originally Posted by Neil

A bit like this plonker selling standard coins 20P COIN 2008 UNDATED SHIELD SIDE on eBay (end time 26-Jul-09 19:14:01 BST)

He's not the plonker, its the person who bid on it that is, hes just made 60 odd pence on that

[gavmrgav]

I will give you a Genie bottle for it!

[blazey]

I personally think it should be illegal to sell 'ordinary, common' coins for more than their actual worth.

Tickets for festivals normally have T&Cs stating they can't be sold for more than what they are worth (if they are permitted to by sold on at all) and I think this should apply to things like money as well. It undermines the entire concept of cash value if you can sell it for more than it is actually worth, it's absolutely ridiculous, especially when the justification of it is 'well people should read things properly'... yes, they definitely should, but that also indicates that people are taking advantage out of people who don't know any better, and if it was done of the scale of big business, I'd like to think more of a fuss would be made.

Exploitation isn't nice in any given situation and I think to justify one kind but disapprove of another is inconsistent at too many levels for me!