Collectable £2 coins are they worth keeping?

[AurumArgenti]

I just wanted to get peoples opinions on circulated collectable £2 coins. Is it worth it nowadays or possibly in the future keeping them? 

Like mainly I have kept the ones from my change and have a few of the various designs.

I'm not saying that I have any of the ultra rare ones because I'm fairly sure I haven't.

I did give some thought about cashing them in at face value for a half bullion sovereign?

It's Saturday and I'm a little bored can't you tell.😆

 

 

 

Edited September 10, 2022 by AurumArgenti

[Scootermuppet]

£2 coins are quite a popular coin to collect, some collect just the commemoratives and some do a full date run etc - very similar to 50p coins, which happens to be my ‘thing’ ☺️

If you like them , I’d say collect them - I have a full set of circulated 50p’s and a fair chunk of the BU ones as well. I try and pick them up cheaply (or occasionally get one in change, but that’s getting rarer these days ), but if I have to pay a little more for one I don’t have then so be it - they’ll always have a value to collectors in the future.

My budget won’t stretch to collecting Sovereigns, (apart from a few nice examples tucked away as a nest egg) and I would like to get the date run of Gillicks (eventually! 😅) but I collect the 50p’s as they are a way of satisfying my inner Magpie without having to live on baked beans for extended periods 😏🤭

Not a big fan of the £2 coins myself, but have to admit there are some nice commemorative designs out there - and even the ‘super rare’ circulating ones can be had for around £30 still, so I understand… 🤔

Basically, if you like it, go for it - has to be cheaper than collecting Precious metal coins 😁

[Petra]

I just keep an eye on my change. Mainly find amongst the 50p’s and occasionally the £2’s. No doubt the grandkids will get them!

[MrB]

On the bright side they will always be worth 2 quid per coin. How much your 2 quid will buy on the other hand...

[Scootermuppet]

If you decide to go for the full set, here’s a couple of YT channels that may help…

Be warned though, it’s addictive! 😏 You could find yourself going to the 50p’s as well!

 

 

[AurumArgenti]

17 minutes ago, Scootermuppet said:

If you decide to go for the full set, here’s a couple of YT channels that may help…

Be warned though, it’s addictive! 😏 You could find yourself going to the 50p’s as well!

 

 

The mrs collects 50ps.😉

[blackadder]

I collect the £2 and 50p's just for fun really Not that i find alot in my change.

[LawrenceChard]

3 hours ago, AurumArgenti said:

I just wanted to get peoples opinions on circulated collectable £2 coins. Is it worth it nowadays or possibly in the future keeping them? 

Like mainly I have kept the ones from my change and have a few of the various designs.

I'm not saying that I have any of the ultra rare ones because I'm fairly sure I haven't.

I did give some thought about cashing them in at face value for a half bullion sovereign?

It's Saturday and I'm a little bored can't you tell.😆

"I did give some thought about cashing them in at face value for a half bullion sovereign?"

Do you want one which is half bulllion and half proof?

😎

[LawrenceChard]

3 hours ago, AurumArgenti said:

I just wanted to get peoples opinions on circulated collectable £2 coins. Is it worth it nowadays or possibly in the future keeping them? 

Like mainly I have kept the ones from my change and have a few of the various designs.

I'm not saying that I have any of the ultra rare ones because I'm fairly sure I haven't.

It's Saturday and I'm a little bored can't you tell.😆

 

They are all worth £3,000 if you read The Sun, and some of the other "newspapers", or their online editions!

https://www.lincolnshirelive.co.uk/news/local-news/rare-50p-coin-sells-ebay-7519432

You can find almost identical "news" stories on about 50 other Reach PLC titles, with a random selection of different journalists names on them.

Some of the prices may also be random, along with most of the other "news" in those rags!

😎

[AurumArgenti]

1 hour ago, LawrenceChard said:

"I did give some thought about cashing them in at face value for a half bullion sovereign?"

Do you want one which is half bulllion and half proof?

😎

 

[Stuntman]

I enjoyed finding and keeping the commemorative £2 coin designs from change.  I have almost all of them, plus some good condition spares of some of the later rarer ones.  Otherwise I just put them back into change if I already had a nicer example, so that someone else could collect them.

The only one that I have actually bought from a dealer was the 2012 Handover to Rio coin which I was looking for but couldn't find.  I paid £3 for a very nice example so I think I did all right there.

Have quite a few 2015 Magna Carta and 2015 Navy spares in very good grades if anyone's particularly interested, plus 14 different spare Olympic 50p coins (none of the really rare ones in my spares but I also collected a full set of 29 from change) and also a spare BU set of all 29 coins plus the completer medallion in the original RM folder.

These just need a good home at a fair price for both sides.

[KevjustKev]

Yep they are worth it. Look at the sold prices on fleabay. 

I just need one to finish my first book of £2

[bluffer]

8 hours ago, tallthinkev said:

Yep they are worth it. Look at the sold prices on fleabay. 

I just need one to finish my first book of £2

what one?  i have a few dupes

[KevjustKev]

16 hours ago, bluffer said:

what one?  i have a few dupes

Commonwealth NI

[bluffer]

11 hours ago, tallthinkev said:

Commonwealth NI

ah. thats one i still need.

[KevjustKev]

9 hours ago, bluffer said:

ah. thats one i still need.

Yep, that's the one. Maybe the WWI navy 'flag error' and the Lord Kichener mule error

[dicker]

And let’s not forget the necklet error….

@LawrenceChard’s recent post in customer queries contains a fair few mentions in this topic.

[Britannia47]

Here’s a photo of my earlier £2 coin collection - not just a sovereign collector!…..stuntman please note!

 

 

[Paul]

Provided they only cost £2 to buy. I see no problem collecting them 

[bluffer]

if you have some spare commonwealths i will happily buy them off you for £2 each and just to be fair, will pay for the postage as well.

16 hours ago, Paul said:

Provided they only cost £2 to buy. I see no problem collecting them 

😁

[Arganto]

I try and hold on to any change that's made primarily of copper. Don't know why, but I've made it a thing now so buggrit. Anything from pre '92 pennies up to the £2s 🤷🏼‍♂️

[Britannia47]

Found another one!  The forgotten 1914 Battle of the Falklands which is commemorated each year on December 8th. Briefly the Royal Navy decimated a German cruiser squadron about 80 miles off Port Stanley, sinking the Scharnhorst, and the Gneisenau amongst others. This £2 coin is worth far more than intrinsic value as I personally picked it up in Port Stanley 5 years ago. The penguins were very friendly!…..🐧

 

 

[Petra]

3 hours ago, Britannia47 said:

Found another one!  The forgotten 1914 Battle of the Falklands which is commemorated each year on December 8th. Briefly the Royal Navy decimated a German cruiser squadron about 80 miles off Port Stanley, sinking the Scharnhorst, and the Gneisenau amongst others. This £2 coin is worth far more than intrinsic value as I personally picked it up in Port Stanley 5 years ago. The penguins were very friendly!…..🐧

 

 

Nice coin, never going to find that in me change! The Falklands were still tactically important back then as it was a major coal bunkering location for the ‘local’ British fleet. That is why originally there were Royal Marines stationed there.🤔

[Robda1986]

When the hell did the 2002 ni get so expensive 😳 any can anyone clue me in on wtf is going on with the 2019 Kew garden are people really paying 80+ for them or is it just people trying to drive the price up😐

[bluffer]

only 485,000 NI minted so the smallest amount of all the games coins and i think the smallest of all the circulating coins.

 

I think with

With the kew its just the cheaper cousin so some of the glamour is rubbing off, which is crazy, as are some of the prices on the original kew.