Is your 20p coin worth £50?

D D Danneh · 29 Jun 2009 at 20:17

A comment in that ebay advert makes a very good point. "How have you managed to photograph both sides of the same coin in a single photo?". The seller says he had a few, but you could quite easily take a photo of the head of an old coin, and the other side of a new coin, and claim it as an undated coin. Without an actual video of you turning the coin around, no-one would know if it's a scam or not.

G-MAN2004 · 29 Jun 2009 at 20:21

SherberT* said:
Gonna be hard posting pictures of these.

1. Grab an old 20p, photo the Queens side.

2. Grab a new 20p photo the Tails side.

3. ??

4. Profit

Well, no, because they look different...

Schizo · 29 Jun 2009 at 20:45

that coin on e bay sold for £5,800.....dodjy going's on there i think.

GeForce · 29 Jun 2009 at 20:45

G-MAN2004 said:
Well, no, because they look different...

How? What have I missed?

Here's a pic I just took of an old and new 20p. It looks exactly the same as the image on http://undated20p.com/ does it not?

ElectroBlaster · 29 Jun 2009 at 20:47

Dam it lol! back along I swear we had one of these. I remember commenting to my wife that it looked odd but I just thought it was some new design and the fact the shiney-ness of it stood out.

izzy eckerslike · 29 Jun 2009 at 21:03

£5,800

Turtles · 29 Jun 2009 at 21:22

There has to be some trickery involved. No way it sold for £5800 :eek:

And to think I got excited today thinking I'd got £50 for my 20p only to turn it over and see the date. grrrrr...

setter · 29 Jun 2009 at 21:29

Had a look through my change bottle, over 70 20p coins and only 2 of the new style, sadly both were dated correctly

Phobia_mp3 · 29 Jun 2009 at 21:35

I have about 100 2p's and 50 20p's and still non for me

LeftfieldTilt · 29 Jun 2009 at 21:46

i shall be looking.

PMKeates · 29 Jun 2009 at 22:36

We had over 500 20p pieces in the house.

Not one is undated

Destination · 29 Jun 2009 at 22:43

New method of 'Quantitative Easing'

20p is worth £50, Inflataion is 0%.... honest gov... its not Zimbabwee

Ev0 · 29 Jun 2009 at 22:50

PMKeates said:
We had over 500 20p pieces in the house.

Not one is undated

no, but you've got 20ps that are worth £100

St.Josh · 29 Jun 2009 at 23:00

B&W said:
good thing i work on a till..

Thats a good point i may have a cheeky look through at work

Locke · 29 Jun 2009 at 23:05

Have only one coin and it's dated.

Guest2 · 29 Jun 2009 at 23:12

Why are some going for £5800 and other that look the same are going for £100?

spoonz · 29 Jun 2009 at 23:22

my guess is **** off coind dealers who, due to publicity, are suffering from a flooded market when until today they sttod a chance of getting at them for £50. Shill bidding

ken1307 · 29 Jun 2009 at 23:26

went through 40 quid of 20p coin today and not found a single one undated, doh :S

Spend_day · 30 Jun 2009 at 12:43

todays ebay prices are from £400-£1000 and these seem to be ligit sales.

Lysander · 30 Jun 2009 at 12:54

D D Danneh said:
A comment in that ebay advert makes a very good point. "How have you managed to photograph both sides of the same coin in a single photo?". The seller says he had a few, but you could quite easily take a photo of the head of an old coin, and the other side of a new coin, and claim it as an undated coin. Without an actual video of you turning the coin around, no-one would know if it's a scam or not.

You'd have to take a short video of the coin being turned over. Or shown in a mirror.

Is your 20p coin worth £50?

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