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I've got a undated 20p, on both sides, is it really worth anything?

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Old 24-07-2009, 09:03 AM
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Originally Posted by CraigoScott
DONT TAKE THEM INTO BANKS, A BANK WILL NOT GIVE YOU £50 FOR ONE, THEY WILL GIVE YOU 20P

the royal mint however will give you £50 for them, so you need to speak to the Mint rather than a bank!
As far as im aware, its not the royal mint coughing up, its a coin collection agency call "the london mint"
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Old 24-07-2009, 09:09 AM
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Originally Posted by Chip
As far as im aware, its not the royal mint coughing up, its a coin collection agency call "the london mint"
ah right ok, well still not a bank, i knew it was something minty
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Old 24-07-2009, 09:10 AM
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Originally Posted by CraigoScott
ah right ok, well still not a bank, i knew it was something minty
Agreed, as you say, to a bank they are worth exactly 20p
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Old 24-07-2009, 09:27 AM
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I wonder if its possible to remove the date from ordinary coins, I could start making undated ones
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Old 24-07-2009, 09:36 AM
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if you look on ebay, buyers are paying upwards of 100 quid for them. but my advice seriously is to keep it. the longer you keep it the more it will be worth. but it has to be undated on both sides.
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Old 24-07-2009, 10:06 AM
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Originally Posted by Chip
As far as im aware, its not the royal mint coughing up, its a coin collection agency call "the london mint"
your very right chip, the royal mint is a goverment company, but the london mint isnt!
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Old 24-07-2009, 10:23 AM
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Originally Posted by Martin Hadland
I wonder if its possible to remove the date from ordinary coins, I could start making undated ones
It would be very obvious what you had done though as the coins in question have a combination of front and back pattern that isnt found on any dated coin.
It would also be illegal if you deliberately vandalised currency.
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Old 24-07-2009, 10:42 AM
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Just found one in my change after reading this thread - hadn't really paid any attention to it on the news!
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Old 24-07-2009, 11:21 AM
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Originally Posted by Chip
It would be very obvious what you had done though as the coins in question have a combination of front and back pattern that isnt found on any dated coin.
It would also be illegal if you deliberately vandalised currency.
I was joking!!!
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Old 24-07-2009, 12:01 PM
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A friend of mine got £160 for one on the bay .
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Old 24-07-2009, 12:08 PM
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Originally Posted by Chip
As far as im aware, its not the royal mint coughing up, its a coin collection agency call "the london mint"

What do they then do with them? Shove them on ebay and make a fooking fortune?
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Old 24-07-2009, 03:01 PM
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rich they will keep them a few years and sell on for profit once the "hysteria" has calmed down and they are mostly out of circulation.

As said in a link, theres millions of coin collectors around the world so demand will exceed supply and hence price will go up. Not necessarily much but remember they offered to pay £50 a coin and already have 10000 of the coins and are hoping to get another 15000 so do the math, theres a good profit to be made!!
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Old 24-07-2009, 05:42 PM
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teh royal mail thing isnt strickly true, the place that will give you a nifty isnt the royal mint, its a private collection half posing as the mint that will then punt them out again

ebay it
dont get knocked for £50
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Old 25-07-2009, 12:22 AM
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rich they will keep them a few years and sell on for profit once the "hysteria" has calmed down and they are mostly out of circulation.

As said in a link, theres millions of coin collectors around the world so demand will exceed supply and hence price will go up. Not necessarily much but remember they offered to pay £50 a coin and already have 10000 of the coins and are hoping to get another 15000 so do the math, theres a good profit to be made!!
No they havent already got 10,000 of them and 15,000 more coming clearly you havent read it very well.

They are encouraging people to sign upto a database submitting their data, wether they have a coin or not just in case they ever want to sell one.
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Yep I "watched" one that went for £5800- check it out
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...=STRK:MEWAX:IT
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Old 17-08-2009, 06:16 PM
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Originally Posted by MewMew
Yep I "watched" one that went for £5800- check it out
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...=STRK:MEWAX:IT
Thats bollox, gotta be the nigerians on a massive bidding war scam!

The true value seems to be around £100 mark, even then there not selling there loads of them on ebay bin for just over £100 for example http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Genuine-Undate...d=p3286.c0.m14

so why bid thousands?
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Old 17-08-2009, 06:21 PM
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mines at £46 at the mo
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Old 17-08-2009, 06:30 PM
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I'd keep it personally!
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