Comments on "Milestones in the decimal coinage of the Falkland Islands"

[eurocoin]

To get back to your question below and your further questions. Unfortunately all information from the 90's is already archived. That's why the Ministry of Finance of the Falkland Islands was unable to guarantee that their reply was correct. However the commissioner of currency recalled that the coins were called in and shipped back to the UK after the UK had changed the coin sizes. She thought this was somewhere around 2001. Until that time both sizes of UK coins circulated alongside each other.

She thought that the matter of the Falklands not introducing the smaller size coins until 1998 was possibly a combination of waiting for all UK coin resizing to take place and also of logistics.  It can take 6 months or longer from ordering coins until receipt.

The large Falkland coins ceased to be legal tender on 1 October 2001.

This means that possibly none of the 3 possibilities you suggested were correct. And so that all small and large UK coins circulated alongside small and large Falkland Islands coins from 1998 until 2001.

2] The UK had demonetised its large 5p and 10p coins by the end of June 1993. The Falklands did not follow suit with smaller versions of its own coins until 1998. Did the larger UK coins still circulate until then?

[Alan71]

Blimey, that's interesting!  A three-year period when there were two sizes of three denominations in everyday use! I suppose with a population as small as that of the Falklands it was no big deal.  Guessing we can expect similar with the £1 coin.

[<k>]

To get back to your question below and your further questions. Unfortunately all information from the 90's is already archived. That's why the Ministry of Finance of the Falkland Islands was unable to guarantee that their reply was correct. However the commissioner of currency recalled that the coins were called in and shipped back to the UK after the UK had changed the coin sizes. She thought this was somewhere around 2001. Until that time both sizes of UK coins circulated alongside each other.

She thought that the matter of the Falklands not introducing the smaller size coins until 1998 was possibly a combination of waiting for all UK coin resizing to take place and also of logistics.  It can take 6 months or longer from ordering coins until receipt.

The large Falkland coins ceased to be legal tender on 1 October 2001.

This means that possibly none of the 3 possibilities you suggested were correct. And so that all small and large UK coins circulated alongside small and large Falkland Islands coins from 1998 until 2001.

Thank you, Niels. That's very interesting. So I assume from your answer that the larger UK 50p is also included in those that were repatriated in 2001, in addition to the larger 5p and 10p coins that I asked about.

[eurocoin]

Thank you, Niels. That's very interesting. So I assume from your answer that the larger UK 50p is also included in those that were repatriated in 2001, in addition to the larger 5p and 10p coins that I asked about.

You are right indeed. 

[<k>]

Above you see the Falkland Islands commemorative 50 pence coin of 2007, 25 years after the Falklands war. Does anybody know whether this coin circulated in the Falklands? It's unusual, because all the other 50p commemoratives I've seen from the Falklands are 38.6mm in diameter (i.e. crown-sized) and therefore surely not intended to circulate. And have there been any other Falkland heptagonal 50p commemoratives, apart from the one above?

[eurocoin]

According to the Weltmünzkatalog by Dr Gerhard Schön only 2566 of these coins have been minted, so I don't think it circulated 

[<k>]

According to the Weltmünzkatalog by Dr Gerhard Schön only 2566 of these coins have been minted, so I don't think it circulated 

Thanks, Niels. Well, that's nearly one each for every adult on the island! How many do they need? So, probably a collector coin, then.

[eurocoin]

Thanks, Niels. Well, that's nearly one each for every adult on the island! How many do they need? So, probably a collector coin, then.

I have now sent an email to their treasury, just to be sure.

[eurocoin]

According to their treasury, the Falkland Islands have till date issued 4 circulating commemoratives:

50 Pence, 1981. Royal Wedding
50 Pence, 1983. 150th Anniversary of the Falkland Islands
50 Pence, 2007. Liberation
2 Pounds, 2014. World War I

[<k>]

Thanks, Niels. War, war, war - and royalty. 

[Alan71]

According to their treasury, the Falkland Islands have till date issued 4 circulating commemoratives:

50 Pence, 1981. Royal Wedding
50 Pence, 1983. 150th Anniversary of the Falkland Islands
50 Pence, 2007. Liberation
2 Pounds, 2014. World War I

The first two of those are Crown-sized pieces aren't they?  Only the last two are struck in their circulating forms (seven-sided 50p, bi-metal £2).  If the "Crown" ones did circulate, it wouldn't have been that widely or for long, surely?

[andyg]

Someone, who posts on this forum occasionally, bought a 2003 IRB 1p recently on ebay.  I have never seen another one before or since.

I now know of two of these

Seem to be somewhat scarce.

[Prosit]

Is it just the 2003?
Dale

I now know of two of these

Seem to be somewhat scarce.

[andyg]

Is it just the 2003?
Dale

2004 is common and have been around for a long time, 2003 I never did hear of until recently.  Numister notes the date is available so there must be a few more around....

[andyg]

Pobjoy are apparently minting a series of 50p coins with penguins this year....