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Free £50 is OK think I will pass on the company for the meal though

now then, now then.....what a prize eh?

What did the EU do for us😂

It goes to show that values are all due to the hype (and the perceived 'rarity' generated) and nothing to do with the mintage numbers. I think with the coins in sets, packs etc the Kew coin mintage is actually more like 500,000. A really rare one to find would be the 1999 standard £2 coin. 38 million made, but I bet you can't find an UNC one. They didn't go into sets and buying annual sets is the easy (dare I say, lazy) option that most people take. And the 2007 slave trade £2 without the DG initials (all the coins in sets had DG on the reverse). Very rare in UNC, again, because people just collect sets and not actual coins. I'm currently putting a website together in conjunction with my "Collectors' Coins - Decimal Issues of the UK" book. Here: www.checkyourchange.co.uk Oh, and a lot of the hype would appear to originate (although I can't confirm this) from companies that have a vested interest in certain coins becoming higher in value. Pump and dump someone called it.