UK Commemorative themes for 2018

[Alan71]

Well, I never. I predict that one of our members will go through the usual stages:

1] Disbelief.

2] Anger!

3] Acceptance.

4] I've bought some, but only in the expectation that they will go up in value.

Might you be referring to me, <k>? 

Nah, just 3].  I will get just the one but only for completeness.  If it does get to the stage where they are striking 20 different £2 and 50p coins each per year then I might have to review my collecting habits.  For now it's just about manageable.  Over the years (1993 to date) I've gone from having circulated, BU, Proof and silver of each coin available to now just getting BU (and circulated if I happen to get them in change).  Plus I haven't bothered with £5 coins for years.

[<k>]

Might you be referring to me, <k>? 

You are a good guesser.    Or was it telepathy? I do wonder what the fundamentalist Christians will make of that boy, indulging in astral projection and flying through the skies with a snowman. 

[eurocoin]

The Royal Mint will issue a special 5 pounds coin for the 70th anniversary of Prince Charles.

[<k>]

The Prince is looking sombre as always. Will be interesting to see who designed it. They'd better do a coloured version, or Alan71 won't buy it. 

[Figleaf]

What? Still no comments on the ears?

Peter

[<k>]

How dare you, Sir! They're pretty normal for Britain.

[<k>]

Sebastian Kurz, the Austrian chancellor has, em, KING-sized years. Maybe he'll turn Austria into a monarchy.

[Deeman]

Didn't think he had that much hair!

Another significant British anniversary??? Anybody intending to purchase should consider putting their money in a charity box instead.

[Alan71]

The Prince is looking sombre as always. Will be interesting to see who designed it. They'd better do a coloured version, or Alan71 won't buy it. 

It's a £5 coin and it's Prince Charles.  Two good reasons not to buy it!  If it was a 50p or £2 then possibly but I've no interest in £5 coins whatsoever.

[<k>]

It's a £5 coin and it's Prince Charles.  Two good reasons not to buy it!  If it was a 50p or £2 then possibly but I've no interest in £5 coins whatsoever.

You thought coloured coins were rubbish until you didn't. You are consistent only in your inconsistency. Watch this space! 

[Alan71]

You thought coloured coins were rubbish until you didn't. You are consistent only in your inconsistency. Watch this space! 

I still think coloured and photographic coins are rubbish.  Owning some doesn't change my opinion.

[<k>]

I still think coloured and photographic coins are rubbish.  Owning some doesn't change my opinion.

You deserve the 2018 Nobel Prize for Surrealism. 

[Figleaf]

@ <k>, do you mean to say you never owned coins you didn't like? It is different for Alan71, one of whose motivations for collecting is investment. If it is his belief that an awful coin will appreciate, he should buy it, preferably in bulk. Even for those who collect money only, ugly coins are just as needed as nice ones. More so, for them, an ugly, practical coin is to be preferred over a nice, impractical one. That leads me to confess I have a whole series of coloured coins, inevitably Canadian quarters. From my point of view, they are pretty impractical, but they were part of a larger deal. Murphy's law.

Peter

[<k>]

If I didn't like a coin, I didn't buy it. Sometimes I came to dislike some later, usually trivial collector coins, and then I got rid of them. If somebody gave me a coin and I didn't like it, I threw it away. I did that as a child with a coin featuring a tughra, because as a 8 or 9 year old, I thought of it as a "scary watering can" and very ugly to boot. 

Collectors are free to indulge their own idiosyncratic habits, of course, and I am likewise at liberty to regard those same habits as highly amusing, just as you do Prince Charles' ears.

[eurocoin]

Available to buy from 12 am Monday November 5, on the Royal Mint's website and later that day also at the crown post offices: