I used to work in a reference library in the 1960s. Somehow got to the point where we had lunatics coming in every day demanding we value their coins! As if the public library was a coin dealer or auctioneer. Some - consulting the Seabys coin catalogue we typically referred them to - would actually return to the desk, demanding their money there and then! What caused all this? The local newspaper, with their regular valuable coins column - which stupidly never bothered to explain to their readers what a 'mint' quality coin was, or how that market actually worked. The problem didn't end until a group of local coin dealers - as sick of the situation as we were - threatened litigation against the newspaper. But I do remember a bright spot. Middle-aged lady with a 'cartwheel' penny. Not that uncommon - I have a couple myself. After consulting Seaby, she arrived at my counter demanding the £50 that catalogue said it was worth. I gently explained that - firstly - the library didn't buy antique coins, whatever they were worth. And secondly, Seaby was referring to mint or almost mint coins which hers most certainly was not. What did mint mean? It means, madam, that the coin is essentially untouched since it left the Royal Mint. She flew into a rage - how could such a thing be possible for such an old coin? She knew what I was up to! I was trying to rob her of her £50!!! I eventually had no choice but to have a couple of janitors lift her by the elbows and deposit her on the pavement outside.
Well at least you know now that you guys aren't the only ones worth less in this world now my coin joined u guys . Have a great day if I want I could send this worthless coin to u guys for nothing then all three of u worthless a holes can be together
My wife used to collect all of her odd coins and throw them into old coffee jars. I called her mad.. 🤔 Now I'm going to find out where she put all of "my" saved coins.😂
I got given a few of those 2p two pence coins by my grandad..it was in with some new Zealand half crowns with king George on them and also some shilling coins aswell.. didn't think they would be worth that much..i live in Australia and originally from new Zealand but moved to Australia 30 years ago
That's amazing, I just clicked on your video and now I've just found 1 new two pence coin, but I have a large pot of copper coins so I will continue digging and maybe find more. Also if many people own these copper coins then they can't be so rare.
In 2008 I got a handful of change which included 5 shiny new (probably mint condition) 20p pieces (I think the shop had no pound coins in the till) and I thought it was strange that I couldn't find a date on any of them but to my shame didn't give it a second thought and spent them. It was only a few weeks later when I saw reporting about the minting error that I realized what I'd had and lost. At that point they were selling for around £2000 each... 😭
Yeah yeah i know!, and 180 years ago , I posted a letter with a brand new Penny Black on it 😮 if only I'd have realised that 180 years later how much it would be worth! Then there was that rainbow I saw with a REAL leprechaun, dancing round this shiny big pot with like yellow light shining out of it, it was only when i thought about it the next day, i wondered if it coulda been a pot of gold! But no one thinks at the time 😮.. AND DON'T get me started on that Horde of Coins i found in a field that i drilled holes in to make buttons for me mums knitted cardigans! What am I like, hey! 🤷♂️🤦♂️🙄....might buy a lottery ticket on Saturday....but I just don't seem to be lucky, nothing out of the ordinary EVER happens to me! 🤷♂️🫤
I have one of the 1983 sets with the rare New Pence 2p coin :) - Thanks for being very clear in this video. It worries me when I see coins for sale on Ebay claiming to be the rare 2p when they are just standard issue New Pence issues from 71-82. I've never found a way of reporting these scams but I worry that people may be taken in by their claims.
Well if you listed yours on ebay maybe include the sentence only coins minted in xxdate are legitimate errors and include legitimate correctly dated rare error xx coin. people would see this and question others
I have 2 20p mules , one aquatics with water over face and one 1983 2p new pence . All found in my change over last 40 years . Also 250 alphabet 10p coins I bought on eBay gumtree etc only ever found 6 in my change . Sold my n Kew Gardens 50p coins 5 years ago £140 each .
I have about £250 worth of 1p,2p,5p,10p,20p and 50p's back from when i needed a lot of loose change. Might have a look at some point. I shall put it on my to do list and might get around to it before the start of the next decade :)
This special two Pence has been issued in "mint sets" only and are sold to collectors. None are ever issued to circulation. So it makes not sense to look into your purse. read: Spink's catalogue of britisch decimal coins.
To many people there are just a set of coins for that year and nothing special except that year they were to quick to stamp the 2p coins before they had set it up properly so they miss-stamped It.😊😊😊
To have 37 new (2) pence coins, and none of them for 1983. Fun search though, got more coins upstairs, will look at them tomorrow. This has taught me to never turn in coins when you are skint! Keep them! I'm sure Queen Elizabeth coins will be worth something in the future.
😆 when I was young I had a mint set of the new coins in a little collectors folder. My dad gave them to me Being an idiot I promptly popped them out and bought some chocolate...
I’ve got two of the 20pences without a date coz I work in a pub and I used to go through all the bagged change when I found out they were first selling for £3,000 on eBay but the price went down when people were selling normal ones by just showing one side without a date
If you had watched it properly you would have seen it was 1983 coins with NEW pence instead of TWO pence tails side. Any earlier date was correctly struck with NEW pence (worth two pence) and any later date would be a fake. Maybe worth something?
@@siobhanharte5075 I had 2 bags of 2p and I found 17 in them so how can it be rare enough to be £1,000. And online I see it anyway from £2-20-200-1,000-10,000 so what actually is it? The same coin in about the condition has wildly different prices.
I looked on ebay. I have a 1971 1975 and two 1980 new pence 2p. The 1971 coin was selling for £20,000. Thats insane! Especially as other places on the net were selling them for very little, £4.50 one was. Good ole ebay eh!
@BitsAndBobsCoins At the end of the day, it's just a lump of copper. Let fools throw their money away. It's a good reflection of how out of control the whole world is. Some have lots, while many have little. Many can't afford to buy simple basics like food or electricity. Hey ho, that's changing rapidly.
I have got a old two pence coin with extra bronze metal spilt on Elizabeth between the z and the t extra on the 'abe' bit of the coin. And a twenty pence coin 2003 and if I remember correctly it's got a blob of extra metal on the second zero 20🔘3 on it, so it looks this almost like I described. And five and ten pound notes with mistakes on them extra, printing ink smudges on the edges, extra on the mirgins. And on the opposite sides with print of 10's about fifteen of them on the face of Austin country side picture and meant to be on the other side of the note. And on others of some notes with missing print on the Queens neck and Winston Churchill eyebrow and the clock face of five pound notes, you can see the st Steven's tower it says three'0'clock and some on other notes saying quarter to twelve on some five pound notes and extra print on the roundals at the bottom of five pound notes with extra circles of black ink off centre and missing ink on note numbers and extra blobs as well. Notes with black ink on some of these numbers or on the bank of England bit and none of this washes off I have tried. How much could all these be worth. I had a row with one of those coin RU-vidrs over a set of non circulation of a bad of coins that my bank said it had come from a bonded Wearhouse and all forty 50 pences saying they are only worth face value when they have been bagged up in October 2016 peter rabbit and kept at one of the bank's wearhouse's and I bought in 2019 when they were going to close up the counter service and I was told that they sold the rest of the coins to the post office and this person will be unnamed but in my eyes a clown has thousands of RU-vid videos and other videos on other platforms . Bonus on five pound notes if you look at the two figures half way down on the women she has a penis sticking out and those with bad eyesight, near her arse of the woman on five pound if you turn the notes horizontal you can make out a grinning face of a lookalike Ricky Chevaiz that's it from me also checkout two pounds with extra lumps on the skull of Shakespeare's coins and two pounds with the wheels in the centre of the coins with extra blobs of metal sometimes two or three wheels with extra bits of metal some have only one and the pip's on the front side only going half way round or the top and bottom pips gone but only pips on the left side and right sides that's my tips to look out for Love mum
I have just found two 1971 2p NEW PENCE coins and one New word 1981 coin i my lose change, both showing their age in colour but in expectable condition, maybe they are not so rare. Now looking through saved coin jar for more .
Are used to collect coins with my brother and then I stopped and gave them all to my brother but that is very interesting to know. I’ll have to do some searching.
I actually feel sick at learning this helpful information as I'm currently in a desperate financial situation and was recently having to go through a jar of loose change just so I could exchange them in the Post Office for higher denomination coins to be able to buy milk and bread. I found this 2p coin and thought to myself that it was strange having "new" on it instead of "two". But I had to add it to the rest of the 2p's in order to make £1. so that I could get a single coin instead. 😢
@@BitsAndBobsCoins aww thank you, that's sweet of you to reply and say. I've learnt now to be more knowledgeable about this subject so hopefully will be more fortunate next time.
The year 1977 saw the release of the “Nine Hands Fifty Pence” - an urban myth perpetuated by people was that, if you got one with ten hands on it instead of nine, it was worth a fiver!
I have been trying to find out if I have a rare coin. It is a 1982 1/2 penny piece, but mine is silver in colour. Where I only ever used copper colour 1/2 pence pieces. Do you know if this could be worth anything?
For years I wouldn’t spend a 20 pence piece,put a few hundred in the bank with them,still got it in there.give up when you never got so many in your Change it was taking longer to save a pittance.
Yeah yeah i know people!, 180 years ago , I posted a letter with a brand new Penny Black on it 😮 if only I'd have realised that nearly 200 years later how much it would be worth! Then there was that rainbow I saw with some little fella dressed in green, silly hat, mad buckled shoes, dancing round this shiny big pot with like yellow light shining out of it, it was only when i thought about it the next day, i wondered if it coulda been a leprechaun with a pot of gold?! 🤷♂️...But no one thinks at the time 😮.. AND DON'T get me started on that Horde of Coins i found in a field, hundreds of them with CAESAR on them, i just thought they a promotional giveaway for the Dog Food company, and they just dumped the leftovers, so i drilled holes in them to make buttons for me mums knitted cardigans! It was as i was drilling the last one, i thought, wasnt there a JULIUS CAESAR?...😮....What am I like, hey! 🤷♂️🤦♂️🙄....was thinking i might buy a lottery ticket on Saturday....but whats the point? I just don't seem to be lucky, nothing out of the ordinary EVER happens to me! 🤷♂️🫤
when i was you g my mum was given a sideboard with a drawer full of stamps turned out they were penny blacks and reds, i didnt understand what they were and coloured them in iand cut the faces out of them😂oops
The 50p one wouldn’t work they were made smaller in 1997 so you would have to have a non circulation 50p which were larger in size for that to work so you would only be able to do this with the 2ps and 20ps as 20ps changed size in 1982 and 2ps have always been the same size since decimalisation. Also 10ps changed size in 1992 so any 80s 50p or 10ps wont be in circulation any more. And 5ps changed size in 1990.
