Rare 10p Coins
Exciting news! The Royal Mint have revealed the latest mintage figures for 2019 coins!
Three 50p coins entered circulation in 2019 and collectors across the nation have been debating how rare each one might be.
What’s more, we were all eagerly awaiting the reveal of the mintage figures for the 2019 A-Z 10p coins.
But now the official figures have been revealed and it looks like there are some particularly rare ones we should be looking out for…
The Rarest A-Z 10p Coins!
Sep 06, 2016 Undated royal 20p — value £100. In 2008, the Royal Mint launched a Royal Shield of Arms series of coins. A different detail from the shield was printed on the reverse (tails) of 1p, 2p, 5p, 10p. Collector values for circulation 10p coins found in your change, prices are based on 200 recent eBay sales for each coin. The price in gold is how much the coin would cost to buy on eBay, silver shows the amount you can sell your coin for on eBay (after fees are taken into account).
Whilst each of the 2018 dated A-Z 10p coins had the same mintage of 220,000, this year the mintages are varied among the designs!
Collectors who have managed to find the 2019 dated Q, W, Y, Z, and R 10p coins will be delighted to see that these have a lower mintage than the other 21 designs from that year.
The 2019 World Wide Web, Yeoman Warders and Zebra Crossing 10p coins all have a mintage of JUST 63,000! When you compare that to the rarest 50p in circulation, the Kew Gardens 50p, which has a circulating mintage of 210,000, it puts into perspective just how rare these 10p coins are.
When you combine the 2018 and 2019 mintages for these coins, it confirms that a total of 283,000 of each design has entered circulation.
The other 10p coins to look out for are the Robin and Queuing 10p, with a 2019 mintage of 64,000 and 83,000 respectively.
Are you lucky enough to have these coins in your change? Let us know in the comments below!
50p Mintage Update
Sherlock and Paddington Join the Chart!
The Paddington Bear coins are some of the most popular 50ps in recent years and collectors have been waiting to find out just how rare they are.
It’s now been confirmed that 9,001,000 of each 2019 design (Paddington at the Tower and Paddington at St. Paul’s Cathedral) were issued into circulation.
Whilst these coins aren’t exactly rare, they are certainly a collector favourite, with children, parents, and 50p collectors alike all wanting to find all four coins from the series in their change. Have you got these coins in your collection? Let us know in the comments below!
The mintage figure for the 2019 Sherlock Holmes 50p has also been confirmed. 8,602,000 of these 50p coins, celebrating the 160th anniversary of the birth of author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, were struck for circulation.
What about the Olympic 50ps?
In 2012, the release of the Olympic 50p series kick started a collecting frenzy across the nation.
Rare 10p Coins
It’s estimated that around 75% of these coins have been removed from circulation by collectors which means they are incredibly sought-after, especially considering these 50ps have some of the lowest mintage figures in circulation…
Rare 10p Coins Letter L
Many of the Olympic 50ps have a mintage less than 2,000,000 with the rarest (the Olympic Football 50p) having a mintage of just 1,125,500.
Taking these rare 50ps into consideration, the 2018 Peter Rabbit and Flopsy Bunny coins would sit in joint sixth position, below the Kew Gardens, Football, Wrestling, Judo and Triathlon 50ps.
£2 Coin Update
As well as updating the 50p mintage figures, The Royal Mint also revealed that no £2 coins were issued into circulation in 2019.
There have been no new £2 coins issued into circulation since 2016, which may in part be due to the introduction of the new 12-sided £1 coin in 2017.
It was recently confirmed that The Royal Mint has no plans to strike any £2 coins for circulation for the next 10 years, so unfortunately, there may not be any mintage updates for this denomination for a while.
No 1p or 2p coins entered circulation in 2018 either, perhaps suggesting it’s time we question what the future has in store for our beloved coppers.
Have you been lucky enough to find any of these coins in your change? It’s always exciting when new mintage figures are revealed and your realise just how rare the change in your pocket really is!
We’ll be updating the Change Checker Scarcity Index this month and it will be exciting to see how these new figures impact the index.
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The original 10p was first issued in 1968 as a larger coin and was initially used alongside and was the same size as its predecimal equivalent coin, the florin (two shillings). In 1992 the 10p was made smaller and lighter. For the smaller current type, see here. Note that there are many minor varieties for these old-size 10p coins. The best information on them that I have seen is in a book called ‘The Identification of British 20th Century Silver Coin Varieties” by David J Groom. It contains over 30 pages just covering large 10p varieties!
Specifications are shown at the bottom of this page.
Obverse Type 1, used 1968 – 1984 (bust design by Arnold Machin):
Reverse Type 1, used 1968 – 1981 (design by Christopher Ironside):
Edge: Milled.
The design:
English lion, royally crowned. ‘NEW PENCE’ and ’10’ above and below.
Dates:
1968, Mintage 336,143,250.
1969, Mintage 314,008,000.
1970, Mintage 133,571,000.
1971, Mintage 63,205,000.
1972, None for circulation, an unknown quantity were made for proof sets.
1973, Mintage 152,174,000.
1974, Mintage 92,741,000.
1975, Mintage 181,559,000.
1976, Mintage 228,220,000.
1977, Mintage 59,323,000.
1978, None for circulation, an unknown quantity were made for proof sets.
1979, Mintage 115,457,000.
1980, Mintage 88,650,000
1981, Mintage 3,487,000.
Collectability/Scarcity: 1 for the high mintage coins, 2 for 1972 and 1978 (for scale details see here)
Obverse Type 1, used 1968 – 1984 (bust design by Arnold Machin):
Rare 10p Coins 1992
Reverse Type 2, used 1982 – 1990 (design by Christopher Ironside):
Edge: Milled.
The design:
English lion, royally crowned. ‘TEN PENCE’ and ’10’ above and below.
Dates:
1982, None for circulation, 205,000 were made for annual sets.
1983, None for circulation, 631,000 were made for annual sets.
1984, None for circulation, 158,820 were made for annual sets.
Collectability/Scarcity (all): 2 (for scale details see here)
Obverse Type 2, used 1985 – 1992 (bust design by Raphael Maklouf):
Reverse Type 2, used 1982 – 1992 (design by Christopher Ironside):
Edge: Milled.
Dates:
1985, None for circulation, 178,000 were made for annual sets.
1986, None for circulation, 167,000 were made for annual sets.
1987, None for circulation, 172,425 were made for annual sets.
1988, None for circulation, 134,067 were made for annual sets.
1989, None for circulation, 77,569 were made for annual sets.
1990, None for circulation, 102,606 were made for annual sets.
1991, None for circulation, 74,975 were made for annual sets.
1992, None for circulation, 78,421 were made for annual sets.
Collectability/Scarcity (all): 2 (for scale details see here)
Rare 10p Coins 2014
To see the 1992 to date smaller current 10p coins, see here.
Specifications for all old size 10p coins:
Size: 28.5mm
Width: 1.85mm
Metal Composition 1968 – 1992: Cupro-nickel (75% copper, 25% nickel)
Weight: 11.31 grammes
Rare 10p Coins Letter L
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