UK commemorative themes for 2016

Started by <k>, October 18, 2015, 04:17:19 PM

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Alan71

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The "angry unicorn" design was this year wasn't it, not last year?

I'm surprised the "final round pound" will be in 2016.  I assumed that sets in 2017 would include both the round one and the new version (similar to how 1990, 1992 and 1997 sets had old and new 5p, 10p and 50p respectively).  Obviously not.

The annual coin set has "only" gone up by £5 to £55, which I suppose isn't bad considering there is £15 worth of £2, £1 and 50p coins alone.

<k>

Quote from: Alan71 on November 04, 2015, 09:52:09 PM
The "angry unicorn" design was this year wasn't it, not last year?

True. People were thinking back to November 2014, when it was introduced as the next "new" pound, but now are thinking ahead to 2016, which is very soon, and the next "new" pound. Anyway, the unicorn is not angry and doesn't look angry.
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augsburger

Quote from: <k> on November 05, 2015, 01:31:04 AM
True. People were thinking back to November 2014, when it was introduced as the next "new" pound, but now are thinking ahead to 2016, which is very soon, and the next "new" pound. Anyway, the unicorn is not angry and doesn't look angry.

How do you know the unicorn isn't angry?  >:D

Might be a little angry that it only gets on the one pound coin for one year, and this is just not the done thing for unicorns in the 21st century.

Looks pretty angry to me. Lions are supposed to be angry and fierce, it's what they do. But unicorns, I mean, have you ever seen a unicorn walking around your high street looking angry? I know I haven't.

Alan71

Quote from: <k> on November 05, 2015, 01:31:04 AM
True. People were thinking back to November 2014, when it was introduced as the next "new" pound, but now are thinking ahead to 2016, which is very soon, and the next "new" pound. Anyway, the unicorn is not angry and doesn't look angry.
It wasn't actually one of the designs unveiled then... it was revealed after the new portrait sets were first issued in March this year.  I was more than a little miffed that it wasn't a part of those sets and that I was going to have to shell out £10 plus postage for a £1 coin!

Perhaps it's not angry, just in some discomfort from having to sit with its front legs in that awkward position.

eurocoin

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Quote from: Pabitra on November 04, 2015, 04:02:29 AM
Does that mean they were bimetallic for 2014 and 2015?
If yes, can I have the images?

Correct:

2014:



2015:


Pabitra

Ok. Now they look familiar.
Thanks for taking the trouble of locating them.

Alan71

I still wish the Royal Mint were made to justify why their sets are priced so high.  I was in Washington DC last week and bought a US silver proof set for $64 (about £43).  OK, so only eight of the 14 coins are actually silver (and just 90% silver at that) but when you think that the Royal Mint is selling a non-silver, non-proof set for £55 it surely indicates that we're being completely ripped off?  Aside from not bothering at all with them (which I am close to) what is the alternative?  Write to my MP and ask them to look into this?

A basic, no-frills set with all the coins in is all that's required.  The lavish packaging of the annual coin set is unnecessary.  If I want to find out more details about a coin, I can google it on the web.  All I need from a set is the coins themselves and something to protect them, allowing them to be viewed.  I have suggested this to the Mint but I'm not naive enough to think what I or anyone else says will matter!

augsburger

I stopped buying sets ages ago.

However what they're doing is making people speculate that another coin could be like the Kew Gardens coin, therefore they could, potentially, strike it rich if they spend all this extra money.

Bimat

Those are some nice medals...Pity that they are part of a set and can't be bought separately. Otherwise it would have been nice addition to bimetallic collection. :)

Mints will issue surcharged BU/Proof sets as long as there are buyers. Indian mints do the same. They don't even offer high quality. People still buy them... ::)

Aditya
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Pabitra

That is the advantage of being a monopoly.

Who is interested in giving value for money or being competitive?

Alan71

^^ I've argued before that the Royal Mint's monopoly should end.  I agree that they should be the only producers of the actual coins, but that any company that's interested should be allowed to make its own presentation sets of these coins and compete with the Mint (the "no frills" sets I mentioned in my previous post). 

Plus if the Royal Mail can be sold off, what's so sacred about the Mint?  It became a private limited company (owned by the government) several years ago, and this was when prices started to rocket.  Prior to then they were very reasonable.  Their customer service was appalling but that was OK because the prices were appealing.  Nowadays there is nothing good to say about them.

Today I got an email from them offering a Black Friday deal - free postage!  Recently they've been offering free postage if you enter a code when you order (prior to that it was free for orders over £40, and in the good old days free on all orders).  Hardly an exciting offer.  Are Royal Mint customers helping to pay off the government's deficit?

Alan71

Well, if five commemorative £2 coins for 2016 weren't enough, it appears there are to be five more commemorative 50p coins coming.  Two of these will be for the 150th anniversary of the birth of Beatrix Potter, and the other three are so far unannounced.

http://blog.royalmint.com/more-2016-uk-coins-to-come/

Clearly it's too much to ask to have one set that houses all of the commemorative/new design coins. 

<k>

Beatrix Potter is certainly a worthy subject. I can't find anything else in the proclamations as yet, apart from a silver sixpence:

https://www.thegazette.co.uk/notice/2446538

The Mint has got wise to me posting the subjects immediately after reading the proclamations, so today they have pre-empted me. I blame our member hertfordian for showing me that trick. He should be sent to the Tower for that.  >:(
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SandyGuyUK

Quote from: <k> on December 11, 2015, 05:32:44 PM
I blame our member hertfordian for showing me that trick. He should be sent to the Tower for that.  >:(

I'm sorry!! ;-)
Ian
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eurocoin

Quote from: <k> on December 11, 2015, 05:32:44 PM
Beatrix Potter is certainly a worthy subject. I can't find anything else in the proclamations as yet, apart from a silver sixpence:

https://www.thegazette.co.uk/notice/2446538

The Mint has got wise to me posting the subjects immediately after reading the proclamations, so today they have pre-empted me. I blame our member hertfordian for showing me that trick. He should be sent to the Tower for that.  >:(

Actually it was due to the last silver 50 pounds coin, everyone already knew the theme and the Royal Mint had to decide to reveal the theme and design 1 day earlier than planned. You can imagine they weren't happy about it. I am sure however that this is just something temporary and within a year from now nobody will know about the gazette thing anymore.

https://www.thegazette.co.uk/notice/2446362