Look at this wonderful gold!

[Half Penny Jon 0]

Gold.

When I went onto ebay.com, I found this seller who is selling the most wonderful collection of gold I have ever seen:

[william 0]

Wow, that looks nice

[Emperor Oli 0]

Have you seen he want's 20% comission!

Pfff

Loads of nice stuff, we don't get that on ebay.co.uk

[william 0]

Ebay.co.uk is full of Churchill crowns

[Emperor Oli 0]

...getting remarkably good prices I hasten to add!

[Chris Perkins 228]

Are they? How much?

[Half Penny Jon 0]

You mean people are actually BUYING churchill crowns!

[Emperor Oli 0]

I saw a lot of eight I think go for £10 which I thought was a super price!

[Sylvester 21]

that's a very good price, over a £1 a piece!!!

[Half Penny Jon 0]

I didn't think that anyone would pay over 25p (their face value) for them.

[Chris Perkins 228]

Blimey, I'd better get mine when next in the UK before the Churchill Crown bubble bursts!

[Sylvester 21]

i'm not sure if they are still legal tender or not, they are predecimal you know. I heard someone say they definately weren't, but i don't recall them being demonetised.

[Emperor Oli 0]

I think the market's saturated, Chris!

[Sylvester 21]

i say we destroy a few hundred thousand, no one will notice.

[Geoff T 3]

i'm not sure if they are still legal tender or not, they are predecimal you know. I heard someone say they definately weren't, but i don't recall them being demonetised.

Yes. all post-1816 crowns are still legal tender. The letters patent of 1971 specifically refers to coins of 5/- being redefined as coins of 25p. Post-1902 crowns have always had an odd status anyway; they're principally commemoratives but can be used as legal tender. That's true of the current £5 coins as well. Therefore, unless they are formally demonetised at some stage, crowns remain currency.

Now try spending your Churchills in ASDA...

[Chris Perkins 228]

I tell you what gets on my nerves, and it happens a lot....

People assume that because modern Crowns have a £5 face value, that the old Crowns must do too. People actually want 5 whole pounds for their churchill etc crowns!

Of course when I tell them the actual 25p truth I rarely hear anything back, which normally is quite rude, but on those occasions, I don't want the bloody things anyway!

[GDJMSP 0]

Have you seen he want's 20% comission!

If you don't wish to pay the 20% ebay commission - then don't. Just go to Goldberg's home site

Goldberg