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Message:: [QUOTE="norantyki, post: 8660067, member: 118879"]Sorry [USER=97258]@toned_morgan[/USER], but these do not sell for anywhere near $50, they actually have a 'negative' value assigned to them owing to their bulk in the trade, and retail you would be lucky to get a few dollars for them. When I was a dealer in the UK, I used to actively dissuade people from selling the 1965 and 1977 Crowns to me, as they piled up, and I couldn't get rid of them. As you said though, they are more of a 'souvenir.' The silver proofs (which these are not) are a different story. Also, those are not RM flips, but rather Barclays Bank promotional holders, and yes, they contain PVC which will damage the coins - the mint dispatched these coins in cloth sacks, as they did virtually all their coins during this period. [USER=142659]@veryberry917[/USER] These are Cu-Ni circulation-issue QEII silver jubilee Crowns (25p coins post decimalization). No, these will not go up in value - the mintages were colossal, and they were virtually all 'put aside' as souvenirs, and as such, still saturate the market today. They also have no 'melt' value, as they are cupro-nickel. You can deposit them with some clearing banks in the UK, if you have an account, and usually with some argument, for 25p each.[/QUOTE]