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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;scottishmoney, post: 2548416, member: 12789&quot;]The Royal Mint got particularly snarky over the £20 and £100 coins that they sold at face value, people were buying them up to get credit card points then trying to turn the coins into the bank for redemption.&nbsp; The RM took them at first then put the brakes on the operation.&nbsp; But predecimal coins are redeemable, with a lot of paperwork and waiting.&nbsp; Unless you have a large amount of say cupronickel halfcrowns or something it is not worth the trouble though as sterling has decreased considerably in value since the £SD days.</p><p><br /></p><p>Bank of England and the Royal Mint are both Crown Corporations, the former was a publicly held company until it was nationalised in 1946 whilst the latter has always been a Crown corporation.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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