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[Guest Lorna]

Hi - I am wondering if anyone could help me. I am not exaggerating here but I have literally spent the lat three hours on the internet trying to find out anything and a rough guide price on some coins.

I honestly have no idea if they are worth anything at all, they were a present from my dad a few years back and had forgotten about them till I came across them in a draw today and only being 25 I’m not very clued up on this kind of thing!!!!

They are the 500th Anniversary 1489 – 1989 Gold Proof Sovereign three coin set and the Britannia 1989 Gold proof set of four coins ( titles from outside of the boxes)

Even if any one could point me in the right direction of whom or where I could contact someone re: finding out the price

I would really appreciate it as I just have not a clue where to start, If this has nothing to do with your discussion forum, im really sorry and just ignore.

Thank you. Lorna

[guyincog]

Anything gold has value (about £7/gram).

Addtionally, those sets have collector value.

First one is worth about £700. Second one about £1300.

Will be less if anything silly has been done to the coins, but never less than the value of gold.

HTH

[kuhli]

The 3-coin Sovereign set had a mintage of 7936, and retails for up to £700.

Chard lists it at £695, and PandaAmerica lists it at US$1,238 (£710). Both of these are reputable dealers, but are often considered on the "high" side of prices.

The 4-coin Britannia set had a mintage of 2268, and retails about the same as the Britannia set.

To sell your set, expect a dealer to pay you roughly 50-60% of these prices. If you wish to make out a little better, you would have to put in some effort and sell it to a collector yourself.

[Chris Perkins]

Lorna,

Young 20 something females are always very welcome in here, so you can talk about what you like

The 3 coin Sovereign anniversary set is worth £450 (at least, that's what i'd probably pay if it's as new).

The Britannia set, perhaps £500. I'm less sure about that one.

Where are you? Perhaps we could meet somewhere, maybe a nice restaurant somewhere, so that I can inspect them?

(I really must stop doing that!)

[kuhli]

Second one about £1300.

£1300 is about right for the 4-coin set, only £700 for the 3-coin set.

[Chris Perkins]

£1300 for the 4 coin Britannia!! Spink says £700, so offers would be around £500.

[guyincog]

Spink live in la-la land sometimes though. Or maybe collectors do. Either way, £700 is too low.

There's a three coin 1989 set on Ebay right now with bids of £500

And this four coin set went for £1260 (from a seller with a feedback of 1)

[guyincog]

Ah, I misread, thought both were the anniversary sets. 700 and 700, then...

[Guest Lorna]

Thanks so much for all your help, I really appreciate it and feel like a bit of a fool now with you guys knowing so much about them. I really had not a clue and no I’ve not done anything silly with the coins as one comment said, there still in little plastic case things in there boxes and not been touched since I was given them, least now I know to be a little more careful then throwing them in a draw now. If I did want to sell them would this be the right place to post my intentions???? Thanks again for your help.

[Chris Perkins]

Ah, I misread, thought both were the anniversary sets. 700 and 700, then...

Yes, £700 and £700 retail.

I'd offer £450 and £500, which is quick and fair.

Yes, here is the right place to post your intentions Lorna. I'm amazed how you had about 6 replies within minutes!

[Guest Guest]

I probably got the prompt replies because of peoples pure annoyance of my lack of knowledge on coins, I mean after all your mean to use this forum site to discuss coins ( i think!) and I’m sure your expected to have at least a hint of a clue what your talking about, not interrupt serious conversations with such an uneducated email regarding coins that everyone else seems to know everything about without even having to surf the net for three hours!!!

[Chris Perkins]

No, not at all. My philosophy has always been to make information available to anyone that wants it. Anyone that wants to ask anything is welcome to.

What I can't tolerate though is people that write badly, with no puctuation, text message abbreviations, and generally use very chav like nonsense phrases. I also hate it when people don't know what they have and post here to find out, without first exploring the website or doing a google search. Lots of things crop up quite often, and when people ask twice a week, it bores me to tears.

If sure you had a good response because:

1. You knew what you had.

2. You asked nicely using a good standard of English.

3. You sounded genuinely interested.

4. What you have is very modern, and therefore pretty 'easy'.

5. You admitted you know nothing, and everybody likes to show off their knowledge after such an invite!

6. You're female and 25. (which psychologically helps, even for those that don't flirt with the posters!)

So there we are.

And thankyou for your contributions, do call again soon.

[Peter]

MMMMMMM a lady with COINS.....scrummy.

[Geordie582]

Now then! A woman. Saying lady has been deemed patronising!