If they do, I MUST have one of the William Shakespeare £2 coins and will trade a bottle of Kentucky Bourbon Whiskey or some other treasure for it.

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You bastard! You're the doddering old fool in front of me almost every time I'm in line to purchase something. Then, when you're done, I'm the doddering old fool blocking eveybody else.Siegfried Shrink wrote:https://www.changechecker.org/coin/166/ ... ories.aspx
I collect coins but nothing modern. There are plenty available though for less than the price of a bottle of whiskey.
I don't even recognise modern British coins without a magnifying glass any more so I usually just use banknotes and give the change to beggars or charity. Well, that's not entirely true, sometimes I am that old man in the queue in front of you taking ages to pick through a fistful of coins for the right money, getting rid of as many small coins as possible.
Sorry -- I've never seen one of these.Burnaby49 wrote:Try Pottapaug1938, he's a coin collector.
The pennies which are dates 1981 or before, and those dated 1982 which weigh 3.1 grams (not 2.5 grams) are worth about twice their face value as scrap. It's still illegal to melt them; but they are very tough to find in circulation, and if you spend them, some speculator will simply snap them up and put them in THEIR hoard.Gregg wrote:I have 3 and a start on a 4th one gallon glass bottles of US pennies, about 20 years worth. I have no idea how many pennies are in a gallon but someday I'm gonna save enough of them to buy a car!
Good luck on living that long. I took one of my gallon paint cans of pennies to one of those cash counting collection machines at the grocery store and wound up with almost $70.Gregg wrote:I have 3 and a start on a 4th one gallon glass bottles of US pennies, about 20 years worth. I have no idea how many pennies are in a gallon but someday I'm gonna save enough of them to buy a car!
That's one of the reasons Canada stopped making them and they are out of circulation. Even way, way back in 1973 when I worked at the Royal Canadian Mint in Ottawa this was true. I was told that there was more than a penny's worth of metal in each penny. Mostly the copper I believe. The government kept cutting back on the copper content but never got ahead of the game. Producing pennies was a permanent losing proposition because no matter how many the mint made there were never enough. People Like Roy Bean, Gregg and every grandparent in the country took them out of circulation faster than they could be produced.The coin guys around here could say more accurately, but at one time I heard pennies were worth more melted down than they were as currency.
That may be so but Canada doesn't have the hysterical Daily Mail and a generation of coffin-dodgers who've prevented full implementation of the metric system and would happily go back to pre-decimal currency. The sort of people who don't give a crap what happens to the economy post Brexit as long as they get a blue passport.Burnaby49 wrote:There was no negative public response to removing them from circulation.
According to this official chart, there were about 4.5 million of each of the three Shakespeare £2 coins produced in 2016, which sounds consistent with them going into circulation rather than being strictly collectibles. So they're probably around somewhere, though it's possible they wound up in about the same place as all those Presidential dollars wound up here (jelly jars and curio shelves, mostly).Gregg wrote:Do your collector coins also have circulating versions like the US President Dollar Coins or State Quarters? You know, a "special" coin that they make in a pure silver proof for big money but they make millions of them in the regular circulation mint and put them out to banks for daily use?
If they do, I MUST have one of the William Shakespeare £2 coins and will trade a bottle of Kentucky Bourbon Whiskey or some other treasure for it.
If you happen to have a little crucible (and I do), it might be illegal to melt them down, but I don't think there's a lot of danger of getting caught. If the specific metal content could be used, tossing in a few fittings and odd piece of pipe should change that. I've also heard that the nickels are worth a lot more melted down and some eccentric fool with more money than cents (pun intended) has a vault with a million bucks in rolled nickels in it.Pottapaug1938 wrote:The pennies which are dates 1981 or before, and those dated 1982 which weigh 3.1 grams (not 2.5 grams) are worth about twice their face value as scrap. It's still illegal to melt them; but they are very tough to find in circulation, and if you spend them, some speculator will simply snap them up and put them in THEIR hoard.Gregg wrote:I have 3 and a start on a 4th one gallon glass bottles of US pennies, about 20 years worth. I have no idea how many pennies are in a gallon but someday I'm gonna save enough of them to buy a car!
Eventually, as in the case of US silver coins, it will probably become legal to melt them.
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