Rare 50p & £2

[GoldenPhil]

I have quite a lot of rare 50p and £2's but the prices they fetch dont inspire me to part with them although of course it is many times the face value.  Should I just sell them on? 

[TeaTime]

I recently sold a 'Kew Gardens' 50p and a 'Blue Peter' 50p on Ebay. Forget how much for, probably a couple of hundred pounds... Neither of them are what i would call rare but i took advantage of the current desire for collecting £2 and 50p. I'm confident that prices for modern circulating coins will plummet eventually once the collecting fad peters out (yes, intentional joke). Sell them now is my advice.

'Rare' coins historically have not become so until a long time after originally minted when very few of them were kept in good condition. Nowadays virtually all low mintage (and a lot of high mintage) coins are put aside. They'll never become genuinely rare as long as people keep hold of them. I believe that right now it is only speculators who are keeping the price of modern coins high and that wont last when demand eventually declines.