Grab a Game for 20p
Any game, from anywhere, legally. 20p. Simple as. Kind of.Published 01/07/2009 at 18:30 by BioEye
How many 20p coins do you have? If you’ve had your eye on the (British) news at all this week, you’ll know that the ‘Royal Mint’ made a muck-up of their most recent coin production, leaving tens of thousands of 20p pieces without a date stamped on them. The company moved the year to the Queen’s side last year, but have now accidentally printed the coins with the new tails side and the old heads side, leaving no date to be seen. So what? It’s just a date, right?
It’s more than that. While the 20p coins are still worth £0.20, ‘experts’ and coin collectors alike are buying the 20ps at £50 due to their rarity, meaning if you were to find one of these coins in your pocket, you could grab yourself a game and more for 20p. It doesn’t stop there, however. If you do find a 20p coin with no date on it, get yourself onto Ebay. Yesterday, one coin sold for £7,100 as collectors scrambled to own one of the dateless pieces of silver. Demand has crept up, and one person was selling a coin for £20,000 today, although has not yet received any bids, but has received at least 21 offers.
£7,100 is 35,500 times the face value of the 20p, and if you’re looking to buy games on the shelf at roughly £40 each, that’s 177 games for 20p. So before you buy your next game, check your silver coins for a dateless 20p. It’s estimated that between 50,000 and 200,000 coins have gotten into public circulation, so there may be over £7000 sitting in your pocket right now. Make that 177 games.
Sources: BBC News , Daily Mail
Photo: Watershed/PA Wire
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nofi | 01/07/2009 18:37
Wants a custom tag.
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right, time to raid the piggy bank!
paxpacis | 02/07/2009 11:54
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Or the local bum?
BioEye | 01/07/2009 18:40
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I looked through about 50 20p coins…. no luck.
gazzagb | 01/07/2009 18:40
Master of speling mitakse
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*searches pockets*
Stupid 2006 20p
*goes to search sofa*
2ofclubs | 01/07/2009 18:42
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If they keep going for £7100 then that’s a potential mass of cash. I imagine after a while it’ll be more likely to get the £50 prize. Not that I’d grumble at £50 for 20p.
haza103 | 01/07/2009 18:44
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What’s most annoying is that you think of all the 20p’s you’ve been using recently, and how any one of them could have sold for £7000. I guess we will never know!
GTOWN | 01/07/2009 18:45
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I’m sure Hodgi tweeted this the opther day. Checke mine and no joy. But a rather unscrupulos company was offering £50.
iBirch | 01/07/2009 18:48
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Yeah heard about this, can’t belive it.
Timesh1993 | 01/07/2009 19:00
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If you save the 20p’s they will be worth even more in the future.
Get finding the 20p’s and than stash them in a safe somewhere!
DarthSharkey | 01/07/2009 19:09
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I was at M&D’s theme park (if you can call it that) playing mini-golf and the claw machines on monday and put a ten spot in the change machine and got loads of 20p coins and I looked through every one before spending them and found zilch.
chudley86 | 01/07/2009 19:19
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I HAD ONE!!
I lost it though
Put it in my wallet to be put into my piggy bank, but it got lost.
I’m going to have a mega hunt for it again now…
XDeadlyWhispersX | 01/07/2009 19:21
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LOL i’ve been looking through all the tills at work for new 20p’s and then looking through all the new bags of 20’s in the safe aswell
Still no luck but we gotta get some more 20p’s from the bank tomorrow so fingers crossed lol
cc_star | 01/07/2009 19:22
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I had a huge pocketful of change left over from Saturday night (why do I always spend notes)… no joy in there.
YOURMUMANDME | 01/07/2009 19:31
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A girl at my g/f’s work sold one for £50 yesterday , bet she’s kicking herself in the twat now , lol .
matty | 01/07/2009 19:33
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you can sell it back to the mint for £50 but you have to sign up i signed up just incase
djhsecondnature | 01/07/2009 19:40
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Apparently my mums got some! I’m off to raid her purse!
BalramRules | 01/07/2009 19:46
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lol, this is what we call comedy, lol!!!
ha ha ha