I don’t know what I was originally looking at, because you know what it’s like when you are reading something online and something else catches your eye and before you know it you’re reading a list of 10 actors who had to be re-cast two weeks into a movie shoot. But I ended up reading something about how much a rare £2 coin went for last week. I don’t collect coins, but I quite often keep special coins that I’ve never seen before. Or I at least keep them until I’m searching for change to pay the window cleaner. But I had one or two knocking about so I thought I’d look on eBay, just in case I was sitting on a £2 coin that was worth 5 grand. I wasn’t.
There were loads of £2 coins for sale though, so I sorted them by price to see what the most expensive one went for. It was mildly interesting for a few seconds. But then I ordered them the other way and looked at the cheapest. I was gobsmacked. You would not believe how many people have sold ‘special’ £2 coins for less than £2. And when you take Paypal fees, eBay fees and postage into account (loads offered free postage), there are actually people who have lost more than £2 selling a £2 coin. They have effectively given the £2 coin away and then 30 or 40 pence more for the privilege. And if they got the bus to the post office and back…
But just have a look on eBay. Search for ‘2 pound coin’, view sold items and arrange them by price, cheapest first. There are dozens of them. I can’t quite work out whether it is mass stupidity or an elaborate tax dodge by those blokes out of Take That.
Moose the Mooche says
“I bought some instant water, but I don’t know what to add”
dai says
I remember a guy in my school selling pound notes for 50p….
metal mickey says
Did he then file off the edges of the 50p coins to make 10p’s?
Black Celebration says
It looks like the cheap ones require you pay an additional 12-15 quid or so for postage.
Carl says
I saw the opposite of that earlier this year in Spitalfields market.
A stall had pieces of card with the appropriate coin sized holes cut and the coins fitted in. Some coins were duplicated, but as I recall there was no more than about £2:50 worth of coins which I think were being sold for £12:00.
pawsforthought says
I did actually buy an a couple of old pound notes and a ten bob note the other week, which came in at £6.50. That was pretty cheap compared to the coin set from the year of my birth- £7.50 for coins of the value of 68 1/2p!