Comments on: UK 20p Undated Error Coins Commanding Huge Premiums

By: dave allen

dave allen — Thu, 26 Jan 2017 22:58:31 +0000

I have a 2p coin.lion .dated 200. 26 / 01 / 2017. Is this coin error issued in great numbers. Dave

By: donna lee

donna lee — Sun, 10 Apr 2016 07:43:49 +0000

I have a 20 pence peice, 2012, with the error ‘half print’ on one side and the normal queens head with the date 2012 on the other. Has this coin any value?

By: ian

ian — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 18:15:21 +0000

I’ve got a 2 pence coin (Lion coat of arms on front) dated “200” – is this worth anything as well

By: c

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 15:11:03 +0000

what about the 2010 20p coins are they worth any money ?

By: carole

carole — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 18:50:06 +0000

hi there, i have discovered a £2 coin in my purse which is inscribed with “PEMEMBER PEMEMBER” instead of Remember Remember. i just wondered if anyone knew if this is a rare mistake? i sent an email to the royal mint and their response was as follows: Edge inscriptions are added by rolling the blanks against a specially shaped tool upon which the letters appear in relief. If you have a coin bearing the word PEMEMBER, perhaps the most likely explanation is that a small section of the R on the edge lettering tool has been eroded to leave what looks like a P. We are unable to offer a definitive opinion, however, without examining the coin at first hand.

i found this to be a very vague answer and on looking at the coin again it is definately a P and not a worn R!!! any help would be much appreciated =)
cheers

By: Denise

Denise — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 17:39:50 +0000

My husband has a coronation crown with some of the letters missing from around the edge, is this worth something?

By: Peter Lewis

Peter Lewis — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 20:38:57 +0000

Any genuine error on British currency is bound to worth good money.

Nobody will actually know how many pound coins have been minted with slight errors on them.

So many coins are struck at the Royal Mint at Llantrisant that it’s physically impossible to check every one for an error.

Both Joel and Mark appear to have in their posession a £1 coin with some slight errors on them.
There are bound to be others in circulation but not that many i bet, possibly a few hundred or maybe less.

These coins are worth holding onto not because they are valuable but because they are rare and to a true collector represent an error at the mint which has gone undetected.

With the countless millions of coins minted annually one with anything slightly wrong with it is certainly worth more than it’s face value.

By: mark

mark — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 21:24:10 +0000

ive got one of these and had it over a year. i will be keeping it

By: Joel Coombe

Joel Coombe — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 20:13:55 +0000

Hi im just wondering if a £1 pound coin with the “e” missing off the one could be worth anything?

By: Peter Lewis

Peter Lewis — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 10:28:12 +0000

Some people are under the apprehension that only a few hundred thousand of these new 20p coins have been minted.

Well the Royal Mint in Llantrisant South Wales have minted many millions of the newly designed 20p piece but accidentally struck only a small number of them without any date whatsoever before realising their mistake.

Many of them will have been returned by the Banks and Post Offices but quite a few thousand reached peoples change.

The last time any coin struck by the Royal Mint had no identifying year of issue on it ( a date) occurred in the reign of Charles 2nd in the 1630-40.

We can be pretty sure that measures have been put in place to ensure it never happens again.

Anyone in possession of one of these MULE coins should keep it safe knowing they own a piece of history.

Why sell it for a fairly small sum of money when you can hand it down to the next generation.

There are many rarer and more valuable coins such as the 1903 Penny but apart from only one other they all have a date somewhere stamped on them.