We’ve got your Commonwealth Games 50p!
The Commonwealth Games 50p is the very latest UK commemorative coin to be released, and Change Checkers are already desperate to get their hands on one while they are circulating in their freshly struck condition.
Fear not! We can offer you a brand new Commonwealth Games 50p…as long as you’re willing to swap with us!
Here’s how it works:
- Find any commemorative 50p from your change
- Complete our online form and post a copy with your coin
- We will return your brand new uncirculated Commonwealth Games 50p within 10 days
It’s as easy as that.
You can swap up to five commemorative 50ps with us. As long as you’re happy with their quality, we’re happy to take them.
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Confirmed: A new Edith Cavell £5 Coin
The Royal Mint have confirmed that next year they will honour the life of wartime heroine Edith Cavell on a new £5 which commemorates the centenary of her death during World War One.
The announcement comes after pressure from relatives of Cavell who recently submitted a petition with over 100,000 names to Her Majesty’s Treasury in a passionate appeal for her to be included in any First World War commemorative plans.
A sense of injustice has been felt ever since Lord Kitchener was revealed as the face of the new 2014 £2 coin. Critics have branded his ‘Your Country Needs You’ message as jingoistic, and completely juxtaposed to the bravery of Edith Cavell who sacrificed her life to help around 200 allied soldiers escape from German-occupied Belgium.
The face of a wartime heroine
Our blog on a possible Edith Cavell £2 coin earlier in the year included a poll which offered you the choice between the Lord Kitchener £2 and our artist’s impression of an Edith Cavell £2, featuring her portrait and famous last words “Patriotism is not enough”.
The Times have mistakenly believed our artist’s impression to be the new Edith Cavell £5 coin
The result: Edith Cavell and our artist’s interpretation of her commemorative £2 coin triumphed.
In fact, it was such a well-received design that the Times have picked it up in their editorials and mistakenly believed it to be the new design for the £5 coin next year!
A fitting tribute
It remains to be seen whether the new 2015 £5 coin will bear any resemblance to our mocked-up version, but whatever the design, it will be a well-deserved tribute and justified recognition of a wartime nurse who made the ultimate sacrifice to help others.
When will I ever find a 2014 coin in my change?
Waiting for information about when you will find the new year’s commemorative coins in your change can be a frustrating time for Change Checkers. But the Royal Mint has finally released some details about when you can expect to find the 2014 coins in your change.
The Royal Mint started striking the circulation Commonwealth Games 50p on 25 May.
We already reported that the Royal Mint started striking the 2014 Commonwealth Games 50p coin on the 25 May, to coincide with the Queen’s Baton Relay visiting the Mint. As anticipated, the Mint has now confirmed that you should begin to see the circulation 50p in your change from around the start of the Games in mid-July. It is expected that approximately 5 million coins will enter circulation over the rest of the year.
So what of the £2 coins? Well it seems that the Royal Mint’s stocks are still quite high, with more 2013 London Underground coins still working they way through the banking system. That means that the £2 Kitchener coin won’t be hitting our pockets until the Autumn, with the Trinity House coin following on behind.
The £2 First World War Kitchener coin is not scheduled until the Autumn
Fortunately, you won’t have to wait quite so long for the Scottish and Northern Irish floral emblems £1 coins, which are slated for the end of the summer (we guess that probably means September). Again it looks likely that will be around 5 million of each design struck.
As for the circulation version of the Queen Anne £5 coin, sadly the Royal Mint has not issued face-value circulation £5 coins through banks and post offices since the Restoration Anniversary coin in 2010.
So if you want a 2014 commemorative coin, you still have a few weeks to wait. But if you’re simply looking for a new shiny 2014 coin of any denomination, check your 5 and 10 pence pieces. That’s because high metal prices have seen the Royal Mint busy collecting in the old cupro-nickel coins to replace them with the less expensive nickel-plated steel versions.
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