please empty your brain below

nice correlation

Shall we all check our pockets/purses/savings jars for 1998 and 1999 so you have a full collection? (or would that be sad? )

How much would you be willing to give for a bright, shiny 1998 5p coin?

Actually, I find this quite interesting. Particularly the columns of the page that you linked that relate to the 10p. A relatively small number of old 10p pieces (3.5 million) were minted in 1981, and then none at all until the new ones were introduced in 1992, when they minted 1.5 billion of them! That's fantastic!

I'm a bit bamboozled by the "Crown (£5)" column. I've got a £5 myself, so it's not the existence that I'm bamboozled by, but the fact that there is another column also called "Crown" but referring to 25p coins, of which there haven't been any since 1981.

Bamboozlement number 1 - two different coins called a "Crown"?

Bamboozlement number 2 - a 25p coin? I've never seen any of those ever ever. I was only young though when they stopped doing them. But why stop? They seem to have been a semi-regular thing.

25p coins should come into play, so that us gamblers don't need to fumble around with change for the "25p a play" fruit machines.

I used to date-sort my coinage quite regularly. But then that was before the Internet, when we had to make our own entertainment.

Anyone remember boredom? I sort-of miss boredom.

25p coins? Never seen one in my life, and I wasn't young in 1981. Well, I wasn't *that* young.
And this is interesting, sorry!

Failed! Too interesting, if only for the bit about none being minted in 1993. I feel a bet coming on with the poor suckers at work...

I ordered some INCREDIBLY strong magnets off the internet (at mutr.co.uk) and they really are grippy chaps. I found myself magnetising huge columns of 2p's, except I noticed one 2p, from 1981, isn't magnetic at all, despite looking perfectly kosher. Does anyone know what this cheeky chappie's up to? I hope I haven't got fraudulent coinage in my system.

Your answer, Chairman, is on the Alloys page on the same mint website.

Up until 1991 bronze coins really were bronze and so were not magnetic. After this they were made of coloured steel so were magnetic. I am told they last a lot longer now, though the colour wears off in time. They would also not squash as well on railway lines and would have a higher risk of causing derailment (so don't try it)

Curious that in 1998 they made 2p coins of both sorts it seems.

If you choose to spend these fine coins, I think you should only spend one from 1990. There is something perversely satisfying in knowing that there are 1,634,976,000 out there, and 5 at home. "I have stockpiled 0.000000306\\% of the world's supply of 1990 UK 5p coins," you could say. "and that doesn't even account for the fact that many of them are at the bottom of the sea, or squashed beyond usefulness by railroad trains, and buried in construction sites. Mwahahahahahaha! World conquest will soon be mine!" Hmm. Sounds like fun. Where can an american get those coins...











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