Can you buy commemorative coins (£5 etc) on the high street?

cheesyboy · 9 Oct 2019 at 11:18

Does anyone know if this is possible, from banks or the Post office or wherever?

I need to try and pick one up today, and can visit a town high street on my lunch break, but is it possible to get one? Googling isn't helping me much.

thegreysquirrel · 9 Oct 2019 at 11:23

Surely it depends on what commemorative coin you want?! I think post office might be your best bet.

https://www.postoffice.co.uk/branch-finder

Put your postcode in and select Collectibles under the Mail category. Long shot but you never know.

cheesyboy · 9 Oct 2019 at 11:26

thegreysquirrel said:
Surely it depends on what commemorative coin you want?! I think post office might be your best bet.

It doesn't really matter - just a big chunky £5 coin.

The Cheesylass was due a visit from the tooth fairy last night.... who managed to miss her out from her deliveries

For our son, when the same thing happened, he got a £5 coin we had, the following night - so need a similar one for her!

cheesyboy · 9 Oct 2019 at 11:43

thegreysquirrel said:
Put your postcode in and select Collectibles under the Mail category. Long shot but you never know.

Unfortunately, none of the local ones do collectibles

Anyone know if banks sell them?

jimjamuk · 9 Oct 2019 at 13:59

I was going to suggest a crown post office - they normally sell all the "extras"

Mercenary Keyboard Warrior · 9 Oct 2019 at 14:53

The come from the royal mint so very few places have them

If its going to be your default thing then you can get them from the mint fairly cheaply if you buy a few when offers are on
What you actually need is a coin collector as opposed to a post office really, but its going to be a fair bit more than a fiver

They are legal tender but not circulated

Some places on ebay get them bulk and sell them on, probably the cheapest way to get a supply, such as

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2019-BU-...036082?hash=item591b5af8b2:g:r8UAAOSw0xtcL0XO

cheesyboy · 9 Oct 2019 at 21:43

Found one in the attic, so we're in the clear! It's a 2009 classic mini commemorative one - we'll tell her it's Mr Bean's car

She also had another tooth fall out today, so I suggested that might be why the tooth fairy didn't come last night!

[FnG]magnolia · 9 Oct 2019 at 21:49

It's all about Stalker coins my dude

Pawnless Endgame · 10 Oct 2019 at 02:28

I'm not sure if I would bother tbh OP.

In 1990 I was given the Queen Mother's 90th Birthday coin. £5 legal tender. A couple of friends had them as well and they spent theirs but I kept mine + packeging. 29 years later in 2019 and they're trending on eBay for...

Wait for it...

£5

Efour · 10 Oct 2019 at 05:40

Should have just gave a 2£ coin.

We live in hash economic times.

morbid42 · 10 Oct 2019 at 06:16

You could always try not on the high street

Martynt74 · 10 Oct 2019 at 08:20

Facebook is probably a decent place for this aswell if you did ever need one urgently.

thegreysquirrel · 10 Oct 2019 at 09:02

Cheesus christ, £5 for every tooth?! This can't be the going rate can it?!

cheesyboy · 10 Oct 2019 at 09:11

thegreysquirrel said:
Cheesus christ, £5 for every tooth?! This can't be the going rate can it?!

It's only because the tooth fairy missed her on the first night (oops

). It's usually a £1.

She was pleased with her £5 coin, plus the £1 for the second tooth, but even more delighted that the Tooth Fairy wrote answers to the questions she wrote in a letter to her

Jean-F · 10 Oct 2019 at 09:30

thegreysquirrel said:
Cheesus christ, £5 for every tooth?! This can't be the going rate can it?!

£5, or a jacks (Jack’s alive = five) as my uncle called them?
When I was a kid it was a sprazi (silver sixpence), as my grandad called them, or tanner, as my dad called them.
Allegedly, sixpenny pieces were called tanners, as they were small, tanner of skin = thin, I could never keep up with it, or believe most of it.