looking for good UK coin dealer to get set of £1 and £2 coins

Nooker

Does anybody know of a good dealer where I could purchase a set of £1 and £2 coins for all the years they have been in circulation? I'd like BU coins, and I can't seem to find anybody on eBay that is selling sets of all the years . . . they are only selling individual coins.

I'm in the USA, but wouldn't mind if the dealer was in the UK, as long as they have a good reputation.

thanks

Mark

Gazza

Could you be a bit more specific. We have had coins in circulation for several thousand years, which particular era are you interested in?

RobP

<< <i>Could you be a bit more specific. We have had coins in circulation for several thousand years, which particular era are you interested in? >>



We've only had pounds and two pounds since Henry VII, so that narrows it down a bit.

On a more serious note, they have never been issued as complete runs so what the initial request is unlikely to exist, unless you can find a collector who is selling off his collection. There are people who collect the recent issues but they tend to be accumulated from circulation. Due to the diarrhoeic output of the mint which puts off people, there are likely to be far fewer collectors of decimal coinage as a series of choice and you would still be reliant on them selling up. That is why you find them typically sold individually. The other problem is that the early hammered gold coinage and later decimal coins tend to be mutually exclusive in collections because of the prices involved - thousands of pounds compared to a few pounds. As Gazza says, you would need to be a bit more specific, but I think you would be lucky to find complete runs of any modern material. Most dealers wouldn't be interested in acquiring large stocks of modern material because the demand isn't great, and it is probably worth noting that I haven't been offered a collection of modern material in the past 6 years. As a dealer you can not realistically sell most currency for too much more than face, so would have to buy at face value, which means the seller may as well use them in the shops.

Gazza

Please excuse me if I was bit flippant with my first reply, the pound signs were not showing as £ when I first accessed the thread.

JamesMurray

Several thousand years ? My oldest is not quite 1000 years old , an Alexander lll and i know there were celtic staters and norse coins circulating prior as well as a few other monarchs but surely several thousand years is a bit of a stretch ?

Gazza

Well the Romans got here 50 years short of 2,000 years ago and the celtic stuff starts 100-200BC so as several thousand is more than 1,000 I don't think I'm stretching it too far

JamesMurray

Can we count roman coins as being part of Britains coinage ?

Nooker

Sorry, I should have been more specific now that I see what I wrote.

I'm looking for the £1 coin in use since 1983, and the Bi-metallic £2 coin since 1997.

I would like a collection of all circulation coins & special commems, etc.

Mark

Gazza

Roman coins circulated in Britain from Celtic times, even before the conquest by the emperor Claudius in A.D.43. Following the occupation normal Roman coins were then used for some 250 years before Britain had its own mint. However, the Romans issued many coins with reference to Britain, including gold coins of Claudius showing a triumphal arch inscribed DE BRITANN, commemorating the conquest. Also during this time there were many so called imitation coins minted in Britian copying the Roman coinage. So I would say yes we can count Roman coins as being part of British coinage.