Does anybody collect rare notes / coins?

wesimmo said:
My mum just found 100 sequentially numbered £1 notes with the original paper retaining band with the withdrawal date in 1982 hand written on it.
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if it were £100 in 1982 worth of heinz beans you'd probably be a millionaire.

same goes for nail clippers, tweezers, thermometers or any number of other housrhold items you could be flogging on easybay to make your fortune.


Why invest in barrels of booze, coins/notes etc when you could buy a stock pile of a simple household item now and wait 20years+.

I bet wooden chopping boards 100x their value since 1982, John Lewis tells me 20-50 for a wooden chopping board is now the norm
 
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wesimmo said:
I found a facebook group and someone messaged me to say he thought £1 notes were worth £7-10 individually....
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You can get a good idea of the general price for this stuff by simply looking at e-bay, I guess the trying the dealers thing or specialist groups might be needed to ascertain whether the sequential serial numbers is of interest or not.

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These listings are sold as consecutive pairs or trios, works out at £9 per note rather than the £7 above for the individual ones... would be nice still I guess to see if a whole wad all with consecutive numbers goes for a bit more still though.


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Edit: interestingly though someone seems to be selling 3 modern, consecutive £20 notes for what seems like a ridiculous price:

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Lysander said:
Uncirculated means literally:



Not that they never went into circulation. I mean, you have to get the notes somehow, unless you literally took them from the printing press.

IBNS Grading Standards

International Bank Note Society; a non-profit educational organization aiming to promote, stimulate, and advance the study and knowledge of worldwide banknotes and paper currencies.
www.theibns.org www.theibns.org

I see what you're saying, but it's not about "in most peoples' eyes" it's about the condition as defined by strict grading standards.
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I'm definitely going to see about getting them appraised.

The UNC bit is interesting, my bro in law found some listed on ebay for £999 described as UNC with that little red paper band round.

I'd guess my grandpa took them out and stashed them somewhere as he liked to collect coins for sure, these were in a lockbox with a load of special edition coins etc that aren't worth much themselves.
 
arknor said:
if it were £100 in 1982 worth of heinz beans you'd probably be a millionaire.

same goes for nail clippers, tweezers, thermometers or any number of other housrhold items you could be flogging on easybay to make your fortune.


Why invest in barrels of booze, coins/notes etc when you could buy a stock pile of a simple household item now and wait 20years+.

I bet wooden chopping boards 100x their value since 1982, John Lewis tells me 20-50 for a wooden chopping board is now the norm
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Have Heinz Beans increased in price by a factor of 10,000 since 1982?
 
BDEE said:

Stamp auctions and coin auctions by Corbitt Stamps, philatelic and numismatic dealers and auctioneers.

www.corbitts.com

This guy will give you an honest and free of charge appraisal.

Good chap. He has lots of notes in his shop. I suspect any value will more be in the overall nature of them rather than the individual notes, but I’m not the expert.

Would be interested to hear how you get on!
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Thanks, will give thema shout, pity i drove back from the East Mids to Newcastle last night without the notes!
 
Surveyor said:
Have Heinz Beans increased in price by a factor of 10,000 since 1982?
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No but if you invested in apple with £100 in 1982, today it would be worth £240,000.

Thats a 20% annual growth rate for 40 years.

FYI the index returns around 10%, a 10% annual return turns into about £4,500.
 
Surveyor said:
Pound coins were introduced in 1983 and pound notes withdrawn in 1988. In Scotland pound notes were last produced in 2001 but some are still in circulation.
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Wow. We still have and use one pound notes in guernsey everyday..
we also use the one & two pounds coins here
 
I did have the Kew Gardens 50p. Don't know what's happened to it.

Have a few of the 10ps with the alphabet of Britishness on them. Got I (ice cream) H (Houses of Parliament) and T (Tea). Found a few more for my colleague
 
platinum87 said:
No but if you invested in apple with £100 in 1982, today it would be worth £240,000.

Thats a 20% annual growth rate for 40 years.

FYI the index returns around 10%, a 10% annual return turns into about £4,500.
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Wonder what £100 in 82 would be the equivalent in todays money taking into account inflation all these years
 
Bought these on eBay while I was bored on furlough during that magical time in 2020. They didn't cost much more than face value and are crisp notes.

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LeeUK said:
Bought these on eBay while I was bored on furlough during that magical time in 2020. They didn't cost much more than face value and are crisp notes.
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Why don't your exchange your entire lottery winnings for £1 notes? Then sell them back for extra profit.
 
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