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There's probably more than one reason. 1) People were generally less than thrilled about the change from silver to cupro-nickel - it was only imminent decimalisation that changed that. 2) The first decade of Liz II is often poorly struck, with shallow designs that wore quickly 3) By the time that people were pulling stuff from change (late 60s), those earlier coins had already had a good deal of circulation The big question is : why are some 50s dates so much harder than others? My own theory is that some years were minted but not fully issued, so Mint bags got distributed to banks significantly after the date on the coins. You also spoke of the 1958 and 1959 halfcrowns - it's worth pointing out that the 1960 is criminally underrated; in fact, only 1966 and 1967 are common in genuine BU.

The reason is that simply few people kept these coins as investments/keepsakes/collectors items one of the reasons being that a florin or a halfcrown was probably an half an hours wage for most people . Coins were only seriously hoarded from 1961 onwards as people got richer and had more money to spend on hobbies anyway. A raft of books on coins also helped including the check your change series and cw pecks bmc on coper tin and bronze coins which had few fans before his book was published.

A bargain if it includes the wreaths and a gothic, but I suspect it's just a load of bullion common date coins that they've sourced from eBay!

Can we see the ad please Colin? I can't find an online link. I think it may be the first time in my life I've gone searching for the Daily Mail…..