Public Service Broadcasting
Nothing to do with police, crime, politics or any of the other things I usually blog about, but more a public service to my readers kind of thing.
The Telegraph & other sources are reporting a cock-up on the money-producing front which might see thousands of us with a little bit of a cash bonus.
The new 20p piece’s design changed a little while ago & in so doing the Royal Mint made a bit of a fopar.
The design change put a fragmented image of the Royal coat of arms on the tails side & a new portrait of the queen on the heads side. In order to accommodate the new design the date was moved from the heads side to the tails. The problem was that a batch of between 50,000 & 200,000 20p pieces were minted with the old front & the new back which missed off the date completely.
Numismatists (I had no idea either) said the last time the Royal Mint left a date off a coin was 1672.
These coins are set to become collectors’ pieces & a company is already offering £50 a pop. One site predicts the coins may be worth up to £250 each in ten years time. One site reports that in 1983 the Royal Mint issued a two-pence coin which said “New Pence” instead of “Two Pence” which now sell for up to £200 each.
I’m off to check the whisky bottle with all our loose change in it.
