Any Brilliant Uncirculated fans on here?

[AaaGee]

Found myself buying a few here and there when the bank balance is low and silver and gold is out of reach. Is there any money in them in the future or am i paying over £10 for 50 pence pieces? 😄

Anyone else buy these?

Mine...

 

Edited June 25, 2023 by AaaGee

[Petra]

11 minutes ago, AaaGee said:

Found myself buying a few here and there when the bank balance is low and silver and gold is out of reach. Is there any money in them in the future or am i paying over £10 for 50 pence pieces? 😄

Anyone else buy these?

Mine...

 

Nice coins, there appears to always be a market for 50p coins, so… why not? I have some 50p’s, sure not the only one🤔

[AaaGee]

7 minutes ago, Petra said:

Nice coins, there appears to always be a market for 50p coins, so… why not? I have some 50p’s, sure not the only one🤔

Any pix?

Interested to see what others have 🙂

[paulmerton]

54 minutes ago, AaaGee said:

Is there any money in them in the future or ...

There are some BU packs out there that definitely weren't a waste of money.

This one came out last year, and a lot of people shunned it for being quite expensive and having 3 grubby circulated coins in it. But the smart kids realised the BU coin in the set had a unique privy mark and that only 2,022 of them would ever be made.

[paulmerton]

These were also a good one to get, again due to the limited edition, and quite novel as there aren't many bunc packs that show the obverse by default.

[paulmerton]

And this £5 coin can only go up, as RM were giving them away for free with any order in xmas 2021. Sadly there haven't been any good deals like that ever since   

[AppleZippoandMetronome]

I don't have any to hand to take pictures of but I do try to make an effort to pick up the BU packs for the £2 and 50p coins that don't get released into circulation. I have to admit that I've been better at grabbing the £2 coins than the 50p's but thats mostly because I have a preference for them and its easier to track since the mint isn't putting any £2 coins into circulation currently.

[AgD]

I'm in the process now of selling the last off that I have. I used to religiously collect the 50p's with my brother ( he passed away last year and my love of collecting these went we he did).

I also inherited his collection and moved a lot of it on and the proceeds went to his children and they done very well out of them.

So there definitely is a market out there for the 50p's, £2 & £5 coins.

Below are what I believe is left,(think one or two may have been sold now)

Also I've got a collection of the queen's last coins stashed away.

 

[AgD]

26 minutes ago, paulmerton said:

There are some BU packs out there that definitely weren't a waste of money.

This one came out last year, and a lot of people shunned it for being quite expensive and having 3 grubby circulated coins in it. But the smart kids realised the BU coin in the set had a unique privy mark and that only 2,022 of them would ever be made.

My brother got me this set and definitely one I'm keeping hold of 👍

[paulmerton]

13 minutes ago, AgD said:

My brother got me this set and definitely one I'm keeping hold of 👍

That is pretty cool. There are some nice sets above that I don't have yet  

[AgD]

15 minutes ago, paulmerton said:

That is pretty cool. There are some nice sets above that I don't have yet  

Just shoot me a pm, I'm sure we can sort something out. Moving these on and putting into gold in the end. 👍

[AaaGee]

1 hour ago, paulmerton said:

There are some BU packs out there that definitely weren't a waste of money.

This one came out last year, and a lot of people shunned it for being quite expensive and having 3 grubby circulated coins in it. But the smart kids realised the BU coin in the set had a unique privy mark and that only 2,022 of them would ever be made.

Just had a look at these. Yeh, pricey!😄

[AaaGee]

Going to get the 2022 Her Magesty The Queen next.

Reasonable price on ebay at the moment.

[paulmerton]

This is another BU+circulated set from last year that I thought was worth getting.

[Spyder]

At the end of the day, anyone of those might be the next Kew Garden

[AaaGee]

5 minutes ago, paulmerton said:

This is another BU+circulated set from last year that I thought was worth getting.

Looks very smart. 

I havnt come across that set on my Googlings.

[TeaTime]

Yes. I started out as a numismatist and got sucked into stacking precious metals. I have crates of BU and proof base metal coins which i occasionally haul out and spend an hour or two just staring at them... I often buy proof £5 coins on Ebay for less than the mint sell the BU ones for too. It's astonishing how many proof sets get broken up for one particular coin and the rest get sold off cheap.

It's also very difficult to stop buying a particular denomination once you have a few - i find myself buying the 50p's as they are released because the collector in me wants a full set 🙄 - normally i'll buy one RM packaged coin to stick away and one unpackaged (Westminster or Koin club) for the collection. I try not to think of the premium....

[AgD]

28 minutes ago, TeaTime said:

Yes. I started out as a numismatist and got sucked into stacking precious metals. I have crates of BU and proof base metal coins which i occasionally haul out and spend an hour or two just staring at them... I often buy proof £5 coins on Ebay for less than the mint sell the BU ones for too. It's astonishing how many proof sets get broken up for one particular coin and the rest get sold off cheap.

It's also very difficult to stop buying a particular denomination once you have a few - i find myself buying the 50p's as they are released because the collector in me wants a full set 🙄 - normally i'll buy one RM packaged coin to stick away and one unpackaged (Westminster or Koin club) for the collection. I try not to think of the premium....

My brother did the same. I still have and will keep a big binder full of the three denominations, the question is now do I carry on with that and get the cheap loose ones from change Checker and the likes to carry the set on (and to back date from when he passed)

[TeaTime]

If you get pleasure from them then the cost is irrelevant. We all hope our coins appreciate in value but the reality is that modern high mintage BU coins will rarely act as a retirement fund !

In most instances the packaging is worth more than the product. Buying loose coins from the secondary market should only be done if your motivation is not profit orientated. 

I was gifted the very first UK silver proof £1 coin and ended up buying every design (not every issue, just different designs, patterns and finishes). I know that what i have invested exceeds their current worth but i enjoy owning them. And for me, that's worth more than making a couple of quid ☺️

 

 

[Nik]

As a novice, I had to research after reading this thread.  Other novices may be interested in this information: Brilliant Uncirculated Coins BU BUNC Coin Meaning

[Petra]

This is a good way of getting people into the whole world of coins and can lead on to the wider aspects of collecting or stacking.

[Zhorro]

I've just bought a couple of the 2023 BU cupro-nickel £5 Pride of England coins because I liked the design:

[paulmerton]

Don't forget the strike-your-own coins are buncs too (made to the same standard with 3 strikes). These are probably the most special ones I have!