UK Olympic 50p series

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I am stuck at 12.   The supply seems to have dried up and they will no doubt start appearing on eBay in a couple of years time as 'Rare'.

The distribution around the country is probably just a matter of which area is 'ordering' more 50-pence coins rather than any attempt to direct them to specific areas.

Bill.

[Prosit]

I have four.  Thanks Andy!

Dale

[Bimat]

I have two. Thanks, Andy!! 

Aditya

[chrisild]

Me two. Thanks, Andy!

Christian

[andyg]

This is the list published here on 23 Jan 2011.   There are 21 reported, but I am suspicious that the ones reported by Tony on 13 January might be ones bought direct from the Mint.   That would give us the total of 16 which seem to have appeared in circulation.   This is partially confirmed by Andy's message asking for scans of the five.   The text from here is the original list but with those five questioned.

Except you have 17 in your list - which includes one I've not seen anywhere else - Wheelchair Rugby....

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Here we have the details of those found in circulation so far, together with the date reported to WoC :-

Sports	Date	Reported in circulation
Aquatics	2011	17-Dec-2010
Archery	2011	28-Dec-2010
Athletics	2011*	17-Dec-2010
Badminton	2011	23-Dec-2010
Basketball
Boccia	2011	17-Dec-2010
Boxing	2011	17-Dec-2010
Canoeing	2011	23-Dec-2010
Cycling	2011	17-Dec-2010
Equestrian	2011	13-Jan-2011   ???
Fencing	2011	21-Dec-2010
Football
Goalball	2011	27-Dec-2010
Gymnastics	2011	23-Dec-2010
Handball
Hockey	2011	23-Dec-2010
Judo	2011	13-Jan-2011   ???
Modern Pentathlon	2011	13-Jan-2011   ???
Rowing	2011	23-Dec-2010
Sailing	2011	13-Jan-2011   ???
Shooting	2011	13-Jan-2011   ???
Table Tennis	2011	23-Dec-2010
Taekwondo
Tennis
Triathlon	2011	23-Dec-2010
Volleyball	2011	30-Nov-2010
Weightlifting
Wheelchair Rugby
Wrestling

* also with date 2009 issued by Royal Mint as UNC.

Any more?

Bill.

OK, I've corrected it.   My mistake, the one that I took as being Wheelchair Rugby was in fact Boccia.

The corrected list, showing 16 as in circulation is as given above.

Bill.

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Although here we are looking at the ones in circulation, are all 29 already available in packs from the Royal Mint?

Bill.

[andyg]

Although here we are looking at the ones in circulation, are all 29 already available in packs from the Royal Mint?

Bill.

yes... and have been since last November.
http://www.royalmint.com/sportscollection/site/default.aspx#fullcollection

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Many thanks.

Bill.

[Figleaf]

Lessee. You pay £85 for a £4.99 piece of carton with appropriate colourful decoration and artful holes and 29 coins. So that's (85-4.99)/29 = £2.758965517241 for each piece marked 50p. What a great deal!

Assuming that postage is also "free", of course.

Peter

[paddyirish]

I have just the two- Badminton and Boccia, though have agreed to do some swaps with the lady in the coffee van, so hopefully she'll come across a few.  Hopefully it'll start to pick up sooner rather than later...

[kena]

Thanks to some trades and my son-in-law, I have all 16 which are now circulating:

Aquatics
Archery
Athletics
Badminton
Boccia
Boxing
Canoeing
Cycling
Fencing
Goalball
Gymnastics
Hockey
Rowing   
Table Tennis
Triathlon
Volleyball

Ken

[chrisild]

Time to 'fess up ... I could not resist any longer. So yes, that football coin (with the great explanation of what "offside" is) is now mine. Yes, it came in a card and a bag, right from the mint. But the suspense was about to kill me, and avoiding sudden death is always a good excuse.

Christian

[augsburger]

Figleaf, you'll have to excuse my little bits of sarcasm from time to time  Someone once wrote of facebook that it's not official until it appears on facebook, so i twisted it a little!!!


You say you pay £2.75 for each coin, on ebay they have been going, circulated, for more than that at times, though it seems to have settled at around £1.50 now. I bought the lot because I remember back in 2002 with the commonwealth games coins that they were going for a fortune, and I managed to get my last one, the welsh one, two days ago from circulation!

Maybe i should run a little competition to see who can guess which coin is mine, Kena is not allowed to participate!!! I'm not at school so you can narrow it down quite a bit!

[Figleaf]

Don't worry, augsburger, the sarcasm and the pleasure are all mine.

Sure, I realise you get unc from the RM and circulated from eBay (plus the risk you are dealing with a crook). In fact, I am in the same position. I am trying very hard to get the new Dutch Erasmus issue in some quantity. It's out there, but not everywhere. I can get it at unc for five times face if I am not patient. If I wait too long, there won't be any unc coins left in circulation. But if I'm lucky, I get it at face from circulation. That's the game.

I'm disqualified from your little guessing game as well, because I have inside information.

Have fun,

Peter