UK millenium (2000) £5 coin

[Guest craigs6124]

Hello all

Is you can see I am new to the forum and I am also a novice collector. I have recently returned to coins after previously collecting a few as a child. I have slowly been gathering a collection of decimal coins and I finally have the resources to start purchasing a few £5 coins.

My latest buy is a year 2000 Anno Domini Millennium coin that I purchased from a seller on eBay. I bought it as a standard Cupro Nickel coin but now I'm not sure if I have been sent the silver version. The British Isles on the back of the coin are in gold. This doesn't seem to be very accurately applied and due to this, at first, I thought someone had coloured it in with a felt tipped pen! The "what's past is prologue" around the edge is raised, which I am hoping is significant as the other £5 coins I have all have recessed writing (sorry if I'm using the wrong terminology). Can anyone confirm from this description if this is the silver version?

Thanks for taking the time to read.

Craig

[Gary D 76]

Hello all

Is you can see I am new to the forum and I am also a novice collector. I have recently returned to coins after previously collecting a few as a child. I have slowly been gathering a collection of decimal coins and I finally have the resources to start purchasing a few £5 coins.

My latest buy is a year 2000 Anno Domini Millennium coin that I purchased from a seller on eBay. I bought it as a standard Cupro Nickel coin but now I'm not sure if I have been sent the silver version. The British Isles on the back of the coin are in gold. This doesn't seem to be very accurately applied and due to this, at first, I thought someone had coloured it in with a felt tipped pen! The "what's past is prologue" around the edge is raised, which I am hoping is significant as the other £5 coins I have all have recessed writing (sorry if I'm using the wrong terminology). Can anyone confirm from this description if this is the silver version?

Thanks for taking the time to read.

Craig

If the British Isles on the reverse is coloured in 22 caret gold it will be the proof in silver. I only have the Millenium dome version which has incuse edge lettering. Spink doesn't mention the whether the lettering is raised or incuse.

Gary

[Guest craigs6124]

Thanks for replying

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Ah yes, incuse is the word I was looking for

I have concerns about the gold on the British Isles as it looks a bit "rough". Does anyone else have the same coin and if so how accuratley applied is the gold? I was hoping the raised edge lettering would be significant.

Would it help if I posted a picture?

[Peckris2 0]

Thanks for replying

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Ah yes, incuse is the word I was looking for

I have concerns about the gold on the British Isles as it looks a bit "rough". Does anyone else have the same coin and if so how accuratley applied is the gold? I was hoping the raised edge lettering would be significant.

Would it help if I posted a picture?

Spink says merely "coloured with 22 carat gold", which implies that is only gold leaf and hence could well look "rough".

By the way, it's your right to collect what you want, but if youre returning to the hobby after a time away, you may not be aware of certain trends. One concerns modern issues which are all listed in the Spink catalogue but only very rarely fetch those catalogue values when sold or auctioned. The 'secondary market' for what are in effect only commemoratives, is not robust and such pieces can be picked up at auction for a fraction of their catalogue values.

The predecimal coin market is pretty robust however, as can be seen on eBay. As I say, it's your affair what you collect, and good luck to you, but be very careful about paying at or near catalogue values for modern issues.