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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;onecenter, post: 1418383, member: 8703&quot;]From my own collecting interests, most British silver decimal coinage struck for collector consumption, has very low mintage numbers, often less than 10,000 examples.&nbsp; The major exceptions are the 25-pence commemorative silver crowns issued in 1972, 1977, 1980 and 1981.&nbsp; Decimal piedforts issued since the 1982 20-pence silver coin are always minted in very low numbers.</p><p><br /></p><p>British base metal coinage has several years and denominations where there were already sufficient numbers of coins available in circulation resulting in what would normally have been a circulating coin being only made available in proof sets.&nbsp; Examples are the 1972 half new penny and new penny; 1972-1974 two new pence and five new pence; 1972 ten new pence, 1971-1975 50 new pence and as late as 1992, the one penny and two pence in bronze due to the change to copper-plated steel planchets for circulation.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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