Check those 20p's...could be worth £50!!

ella_ella_ella

What would be the sellers fee's on this...

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Undated-20p-coin-muel-mint-error-no-date-either-side_W0QQitemZ270418603449QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_Coins_BritishDecimal_RL?hash=item3ef6346db9&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=65%3A3%7C66%3A2%7C39%3A1%7C240%3A1318%7C301%3A1%7C293%3A1%7C294%3A50

scorpiokitten

If the buyer doesn't pay within so much time, they can file a NPB claim and they then get their FVF (final value fee/sellers fee) refunded anyway

moiramber

I feel like sticking some of my old manky 20p's on and seeing what I can get for them! People seem to be very stupid these days!

dickieg

FatAndy wrote: »

According to BBC News this morning someone recently sold a 2p coin for £600. All because it had '2p New Pence' on it after they were supposed to have dropped the word 'New'. Seems there's money to be made from dodgy coins.

Does anyone know anything or have a picture of this 2p coin, and what the design is like, im sure all the 20ps will have been snapped up by now, so maybe we could look for the 2ps

ella_ella_ella

I could be wrong but I think the 2p was in the 80's...

ella_ella_ella

So its just the listing fee to pay? Still must be quite steep on a 1.2 million buy it now price!

dickieg

Ive just been going through my copper colection and i can find one that on the tail side as got 2 at the bottom and new pence at the top (1980) and ive got noe that says on the tail side 2 at the bottom and two pence at the top, but i cant see any that have 2 at the bottom tail side and two new pence or 2 new pence at the top. Can anybody tell us what we are looking for

ella_ella_ella

The British 2p was introduced at decimalisation in 1971. Because all the coins were new the Royal mint put the words 'New Pence' on the coins. The coins remained with this wording until (and including) 1981. The back of all Two pence pieces dated between 1971 and 1981 will look like this:

In 1982 the Royal mint decided that the Two pence piece was not really that new anymore and replaced the word 'New' with the word 'Two'. They also did this with the other denominations that were introduced in 1971, the 'New Penny' became 'One Penny', and so on... So now from 1982 to now the back of the Two pence coin looks like this:

Without any exceptions all of the 1982 coins had 'Two Pence' on the back. However, and this is where the confusion comes from, in some years of the early 80's no Two pence coins were issued for general circulation and the 637,100 1983 dated coins that were produced all went into special sets containing one of each coin from that year. In a few of those sets the 2p coin was struck with the older ('New Pence' type) reverse by mistake and is indeed very rare.

The 1983 2p Coin with 'New Pence' on the reverse is the only rare coin, all of the others are very common and were struck in very high numbers.

From 1984 to 2003 all of the coins without exception have the 'Two Pence' reverse like they should

ella_ella_ella

The chance of finding one of the rare 2p's is 1 in 14 million...more chance of winning the lottery!

Edited to add; There seems to have been only 450 of them minted and they were in the sets.

matt1987

damn, I have a two pence that says New Pence... its dated 1971.