British 1951 1d

coinkat · June 14, 2004 8:55AM

The new Spink lists this at 60 pounds sterling in BU and even 35 in EF... now this date really isn't that though is it?

spinaker2000 · June 14, 2004 8:57AM

<< <i>now this date really isn't that though is it? >>

Don't know, can't find one.

wybrit · June 14, 2004 9:02AM

It's not tough in the US. Even US-only coin shops have BU 1951 1ds. I found 2 examples in such shops in Denver last year.

coinkat · June 14, 2004 9:12AM

This is just probably one of those dates that everyone wants and that kind of explains it.

ajaan · June 14, 2004 9:18AM

Six on eBay right now.

cladking · June 14, 2004 9:39AM

I once dispersed a horde of a few hundred of these. Wouldn' mind having them back now.

Aethelred · June 14, 2004 9:40AM

Not as rare as everyone makes it out to be and a bit overpriced in Spinks IMO.

coinkat · June 14, 2004 9:45AM

Aethelred, I tend to agree that they are overpriced in Spink, but I think there is a demand for them

Aethelred · June 14, 2004 9:57AM

Withoutout a doubt they do have a following!

wybrit · June 14, 2004 10:44AM

The whole issue was shipped to Bermuda, if memory serves. That's why you can't find them in the UK. Not a single example ever showed up in pocket change when I lived there.

lordmarcovan · June 14, 2004 10:53AM

I got four or five AU-BU coins in a bulk lot, once. Paid ten cents a coin for the whole lot. 400 coins; forty bucks. Well worth it, since there were a lot of better-date Brit large pennies in there- five or six 1950's, and four or five each of the 1918 and 1919 King's Norton pieces, plus some EF-AU Young Head Vickie material. It was a sweet lot. $1,280 Krause value, all told. Not bad for forty bucks. (Forty bucks was a king's ransom to me in those days- it took some sacrifice.)

British 1951 1d

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