1970 5p coin

[Guest Mark]

I have come accross a 1970 5p coin ? Am wondering what it's worth...

[Chris Perkins 228]

Erm, 5p.

Unless you could pass it off as a 10p (I didn't tell you that!)

If it's in mint condition, it'll be worth slightly more, but an average circulated 1970 5p is about as interesting as the most boring man in the world.

[Guest Mark]

Well there goes the excitement straight out of the window..

[Chris Perkins 228]

Well what did you expect?

It's only 34 years old, and was spent as legal tender right up until the 1990's. If the time coins were made was represented by a 24 hour day, your 5p would have existed from about Quarter to midnight until now...It's not old, and they made them by the million.

Can you tell me, because this interests me...What was it that made you think that such a new coin would be in anyway exciting? I'm not being patronising, it's just that as a coin dealer I cannot understand why people get excited by ordinary coins that are dated well within living memory.

Is it because of all these programmes on TV about going to get 'old' bargains at car boot sales, the fact that the media seems to lead you to believe that anything over 10 years old is rare and valuable? Or are you very young, and don't remember the 5p's being that larger size?

[william 0]

Well i certainly don't, being 11!

[Sylvester 15]

Well i certainly don't, being 11!

I do remember them, but only just as i was a young 'en when they were legal tender. And we still had a female PM who shall remain nameless...

Times have changed quite a bit in such a short space of time.

[Emperor Oli 0]

And we still had a female PM who shall remain nameless...

I guess you're referring to Baroness Thatcher but all the people i hear talking about her seem to hate her. Does anybody know why this is?

[Sylvester 15]

I guess you're referring to Baroness Thatcher but all the people i hear talking about her seem to hate her. Does anybody know why this is?

I can't stand her. She wanted to make Britain great, but at the same time she tinkered and throughly detroyed what was left of the industry that had once made this country great.

It was her that made us make the final shift from buying things made in Britain, to cheap rubbish from abroad, she destroyed the industry so we had no other choice. Hence MacMillan's comments about her selling off the family silver.

Conservative my foot. Conservatives are by definition opposed to change, she did nothing but change everything with her 'new right' and all those bloody yuppies.