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Well presumably if £5 worth of 20ps was enough to virtually guarantee one, they wouldn't actually be that rare, and therefore not worth much. I did think I'd got one out the coffee machine at work this morning, before realising that (unlike old 20ps) the date was actually on the heads side. D'oh. I'd done a little dance and everything.Derek Hazell wrote:On the morning of the very day this was announced I was given an amazing £5-worth of 20 pences by a bus driver who didn't have any other change - and not one of them was one of these!
I think that is taking bad luck to the extreme!
Yeah, I've seen a few too. I reported one which was blatantly just an old coin - he'd just photographed the dateless head side and not shown the tails side! It was at £100 too, with about 2 hours left. Shocking that somebody would do that, but also that people are so easily duped.Michael Wallace wrote:I was watching some of these auctions on ebay yesterday. Curiously, the first one I saw went for around £5,600, but then one that went overnight only went for about £460. Makes me wonder if the former was a result of fake bids.
Also seen a couple of instances of people selling regular 20ps for about £20, because people can't read (there was one guy who was selling a lot of coins, and so seemed pretty legit in the sense of not trying to scam anyone, he even answered a question on the page from someone asking if it was dated - he still got £26 for it!).
Me too. £50 well spent right?Jon Corby wrote:I've got one of these btw
Damn straight. I'm going to buy up as many as I can, thus forcing the price up. Genius.Charlie Reams wrote:Me too. £50 well spent right?Jon Corby wrote:I've got one of these btw
That's easy, 20p of gold!!!!!!Rhys Benjamin wrote:What's worth more - 20p of copper or 20p of gold?
They're the same!Ryan Taylor wrote:That's easy, 20p of gold!!!!!!Rhys Benjamin wrote:What's worth more - 20p of copper or 20p of gold?
FIFYRhys Benjamin wrote:What's worth more - 20p worth of copper or 20p worth of gold?
If they start making 20p coins out of gold, they might make them smaller than if they made them from copper.Jon Corby wrote:A 20p (made) of gold is definitely going to be worth more than a 20p of copper.
Hell, if they made copper coins out of copper they'd make them smallerGavin Chipper wrote:If they start making 20p coins out of gold, they might make them smaller than if they made them from copper.Jon Corby wrote:A 20p (made) of gold is definitely going to be worth more than a 20p of copper.
Actually ,20p coins are 75% copper nowadaysGavin Chipper wrote:If they start making 20p coins out of gold, they might make them smaller than if they made them from copper.Jon Corby wrote:A 20p (made) of gold is definitely going to be worth more than a 20p of copper.
I reckon you could double your money on that.Ryan Taylor wrote:I've got a half pence from 1962. How much will that fetch me?
Actually, according to the London Metal Exchange, the copper content is probably worth about four (American) cents or so, just under three pence. Of course, you'd have to extract the tin and zinc somehow. Probably not worth it, really.Gavin Chipper wrote:I reckon you could double your money on that.Ryan Taylor wrote:I've got a half pence from 1962. How much will that fetch me?