i have got a 1980 10p round about the same condition on the picture but a little darker 1980 50p x2 these are not my pictures there are of the internet
i used to like those! Much nicer than the little ones we have now... i think i had a few lying around somewhere.
Modern circulated coins are not usually worth face unless you happen to be right there in the country that issued them. So, you have about a pound, or 1-pound-10 actually. I like those early decimal designs, and you've gotten that same comment already. Queen Elizabeth was younger, of course, and the lion and all is nice. When I hit the junk boxes at the coin stores, I usually pick up the UK 50p if they are not too worn. I have worked as a substitute teacher in middle school and coins are useful in the classroom for any number of purposes. Michael
The ones he described were demonetised many years ago, so they are worth even less than that here now. Old large pre-1997 50ps can be bought for 10p, and the pre-1992 10ps can be bought for about 5p.
Of course... I had forgotten. All American money is American money: for more than 30 years now the government has considered everything it ever issued, coins, silver certificates, nationals, etc., legal tender by modern law. I know that when a country loses a war, or has a revolution, the currency is usually a casualty. The British situation did not ring a bell with me. Thanks for the reminder.
Well they had no choice but to demonetise them really, because the old 10p (about half dollar size) was reduced to the size of a quarter which incidentally was only a mm or too bigger than the old 5p. If that had heppen people would have been passing 5p's off at double face... And most things prior to 1968/71 were demonetised due to decimalisation.
sylvester the only exeption i think in the uk was the sixpence which were still being used to about 1980 due to there silver content. they changed the value of it to 2.5p though but as silver value increased these gradually disappeared too. what a shame because the sixpence was a lovley little coin with real value.
Actually that's wrong... Most of the sixpences in circulation by 1980 were the 1947+ Cupronickel issue, they weren't in circulation because of their silver content... they were in circulation (however grudgingly from the government's point of view), simply because upon decimalisation in 1971 it was possible to give and recieve correct change for them, 2 1/2p. So why demonetise them? It's only by the mid 70s that people began to look upon a 2 1/2p coin as an odd denomination. So in 1980 they went.
or maybe i should send them here instead...? http://www.coinpeople.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=2210&start=0
i remember as a kid still able to use sixpences in scotland, the silver ones were still circulating and the shopkeepers would take them soley for there silver content often giving you more than the 2.5p. strange how i remember that but i do
sylvestor perhaps i can pick your brains about them what weight is a sixpence and were they the same weight before 1920 and after 1947 ? looking for a bullion value to them also are they worth mch more than bullion also the ones after 47 how much are they worth exactly much appreciated
Sixpence weighs; 1674-1787 between 2.9g-3.0g 1816-1967/1970 exactly 2.8g They always made them to the same weight when changing metals so that it didn't cause confusion, most likely when people take change bags to the bank they usually do those on weight... but also by the 1930s vending machines. Bullion value ain't much, probably about 70p or so for pre 1920s, and about 40p for the .500 silver issue. (I haven't checked the silver prices lately but i should imagine they are somewhere around there). The post '47 ones are only really worth anything in top grades (except 1952 which makes a few quid in low grades), most others in low grades go for about 10p.
