New UK coin to celebrate Queen Elizabeth being the longest ever reigning monach

...... da what????

 

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Buy them in ten years time if you must buy them at all. They will no longer be topical and the after market will be flooded.

These are not coins, they are little metal objects made to slurp up the surplus cash of the impressionable.

Spend the dosh on real coins instead. There is literally no limit to the number of things that can be commemorated and as long as the public keep buying the producers will happily churn out some new 'must have' item every few weeks.

 

The 'after market' for UK Commemorative coins is useful. I picked up 3 1970s proof sets last weekend for a fiver each. No idea what they cost new but imagine, accounting for inflation, these were cheaper now. Nice sets though.

 

Umm, apparently so. The Royal Mint blog mentions "the words ‘One Crown’, which pay tribute to the significance of the fact that one person, Queen Elizabeth II, has worn that crown between the years 1952 and 2015" ...

Christian

 

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Don't really like the design

 

Well, I opted to grab the coin - I don't particularly buy the commemoratives for the royal family (I'll go broke if I try to chase all the releases for the kids' birthdays... The royal mint needs to cut that out), but I thought this was a really unique moment. Just got the cupro-nickel coin, and appropriately arrived today:

 

Why the pic of Patrick Macnee

 

That's the designer of the reverse - I think his name was James Butler. Don't have it with me at the moment

 

How much was that?

 

Sorry, trying to be funny, Patrick Macnee was the guy in the old Avengers TV series.

 

Sorry Kentucky - I never saw the Avengers! That just went over my head...

As for cost, it was £13 in the UK, but shipped to the U.S., I didn't have to pay taxes, so it was £10.83. If I buy something from the Royal mint, I usually try to get about £80 face value so the amount I save on taxes covers the cost of shipping to the U.S.

 

Keep in mind that the coin with the 5 portraits has a face value of £ 20 and is legal tender. Here in England you can order them from the mint at face value, PP is included. The £5 or Crown coin is available at face value from the Post Office.

 

Ah, the "Mit Schirm, Charme und Melone" (Avengers, German) guy. No, he did not design any coins as far as I know ...

 

But are you SURE? : - )

 

He may have done a few coin designs but found them to be bad and trashed his sketches before anybody else got to see them ... Now James Butler (remember? the "Crown" designer ) did an interesting design for this WW1 collector coin (5 oz gold or silver, face value £10). His Crown is less appealing in my opinion.

Christian

 

I agree - I do like the design of the £20 coin with all of the portraits, but I have yet to purchase a £20 coin. I am too much of a completist, and if I bought one, I would have to find the others (and the Royal Mint is already going too crazy with the various releases - I don't need another coin series to keep up with)