Royal Mint Issues 20 pence Coin Worth £50
THE BBC reports that a batch of 20p coins issued with no date on them “could be worth £50 each”.
The BBC says the coins were issued “accidentally”. Although if 20 pence can be worth £50 by leaving off a date then why not repeat the mistake with 1 penny pieces and so turn each little coin in £2.50?
Or, better yet, turn the might £2 coin into £500.
The BBC notes:
A batch of somewhere between 50,000 and 200,000 of the coins are thought to have entered circulation.
Loadsa money all round!
Posted: 29th, June 2009 | In: Money Comments (11) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0 | TrackBack | Permalink
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July 11th, 2009 at 7:26 pm
We have not one, but three pages on one of our websites, with information, opinion, and advice about the “rare” 20 pence error coins, and right now I feel a fourth page coming on.
Our pages should provide definitive answers to most of the questions about these coins. (They might also spoil some of the fun!).
July 4th, 2009 at 11:00 pm
I personaly think everyone with one of these coin’s should post it or them to me for a free valueation then I will send u what I genuinely think they are worth. Lol B-)
July 3rd, 2009 at 1:55 pm
Sorry Yampy
An ebaying colleague was telling me about all these coins for sale and loads of them are just normal 20p pieces. I know they’re being greedy but I’m just too soft and feel sorry for the people about to be duped.
BTW, do you have any of those bank notes left?
July 3rd, 2009 at 1:46 pm
Oh Batty, don’t spoil it. A fool and his money deserve to be parted.
P.S. Wanna buy a bank? Several going cheap
July 3rd, 2009 at 1:24 pm
In case anyone is about to get caught out on ebay (it seems some sellers are advertising coins with the date on the other side as if they’re worth something) here’s a link to a site that makes it easy to spot if your coin is worth anything more than 20p
http://www.undated20p.com/identification.html
July 1st, 2009 at 8:25 pm
i’ve got one of those but it has 2008 on the other side
June 30th, 2009 at 7:56 pm
@ tony
If it’s got a date on either side it’s not one, sorry
Google Image search it you’ll see what an undated 20p looks like
June 30th, 2009 at 6:11 pm
i got 1 of these but has a date on the other side is it one of them
June 29th, 2009 at 11:59 pm
I have 12 of these 20 pence pieces, so how do I turn them into £50 each??
June 29th, 2009 at 2:21 pm
Since the announcement this morning there are alread 33 of these coins for sale on Ebay ranging from £250 buy it now (optimist) to £4.09 (realist)
June 29th, 2009 at 2:16 pm
I have some £500 notes which were accidently printed at the Royal Mint in orange ink with ‘Monopoly’ on them instead of Bank of England. I am prepared to let Anorak readers have a limited supply at face value