He Hid, But Still Got Tagged! £250 50p coin hunt 102 book 1

Welcome back to the channel for another coin hunt!

Today it’s the 1st December 2023 and we’re hunting through a £250 bag of 50p coins. So what are we looking for?

Commemoratives
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We’d particularly like to find commemorative designs which we haven’t seen in our previous hunts so we can put them in the book. The outstanding designs are:
2009 – Kew Gardens
2011 – Olympic Judo
2011 – Olympic Shooting
2011 – Olympic Taekwondo

We’re interested in commemoratives which we’ve found before but are above face value (*), and if we find any they’ll be kept in the wider collection. The full list of commemoratives is:

1998 – NHS *
1998 – EU Stars *
2000 – Public Libraries Act
2003 – Suffragettes *
2004 – Roger Bannister
2005 – Dictionary
2006 – VC Award
2006 – VC Heroic Acts
2007 – Scouting Movement
2009 – Kew Gardens *
2010 – Girl Guiding
2011 – WWF *
2011 – Aquatics *
2011 – Archery *
2011 – Athletics *
2011 – Badminton *
2011 – Basketball *
2011 – Boccia *
2011 – Boxing *
2011 – Canoeing *
2011 – Cycling *
2011 – Equestrian *
2011 – Fencing *
2011 – Football *
2011 – Goalball *
2011 – Gymnastics *
2011 – Handball *
2011 – Hockey *
2011 – Judo *
2011 – Modern Pentathlon *
2011 – Rowing *
2011 – Sailing *
2011 – Shooting *
2011 – Table Tennis *
2011 – Taekwondo *
2011 – Tennis *
2011 – Triathlon *
2011 – Volleyball *
2011 – Weightlifting *
2011 – Wheelchair Rugby *
2011 – Wrestling *
2013 – Benjamin Britten *
2013 – Christopher Ironside
2014 – Glasgow Commonwealth Games
2015 – Battle of Britain *
2016 – Battle of Hastings *
2016 – Jemima Puddle-Duck *
2016 – Squirrel Nutkin *
2016 – Beatrix Potter Portrait *
2016 – Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle
2016 – Peter Rabbit *
2016 – Team GB
2017 – Isaac Newton *
2017 – Peter Rabbit
2017 – Tom Kitten
2017 – Jeremy Fisher
2017 – Benjamin Bunny
2018 – Peter Rabbit *
2018 – Flopsy Bunny *
2018 – Tailor of Gloucester *
2018 – Mrs Tittlemouse *
2018 – Paddington at the Station *
2018 – Paddington at the Cathedral *
2019 – Sherlock Holmes
2019 – Paddington at the Cathedral
2019 – Paddington at the Tower
2020 – Diversity
2020 – Withdrawal from the EU
2022 – Pride
2022 – ER II Platinum Jubilee
2022 – ER II Memorial
2023 – KC III Coronation *

Very occasionally, we might even be lucky enough to find an NIFC (“Not Intended For Circulation”).

Definitives
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We’re interested in definitive designs which are either of low mintage or shouldn’t be in our change. Britannia was the definitive design from 1997-2008 and Shield is the definitive design from 2008 onwards.

For Britannia, 2008 is a lower minted year which some people keep. Any year after 2008 would be an NIFC.

For Shield, 2009-11, 2016, 2018, and 2021 are NIFC years, while 2017 is a lower minted year. There’s also a 2022 shield (tooth-fairy) which has a privy mark on the reverse.

In 2023, the Atlantic Salmon became the definitive design. The NIFC version has a privy mark on the obverse.

What Else?
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Errors, territory coins, and any oddities we spot through the hunt!

Some Useful 50p Links
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Royal Mint Circulating 50p Mintage Figures:
https://www.royalmint.com/corporate/circulating-coin/uk-currency/mintages/50-pence/

Royal Mint 50p Design And Specifications:
https://www.royalmint.com/discover/uk-coins/coin-design-and-specifications/fifty-pence-coin/

Hello welcome back to the channel for another coin hunt today we have £250 of 50 piece to have a hunt through we’re on the sealed bags again today no date on this bag and I can see we’ve got pre- tears again so hopefully it’ll go as

Smoothly as it did in the last hand okay without further Ado let’s get this bag opened up and see what we can find and while that bag’s being opened up let’s have a quick look at the book to see which designs we still after on page one Q Gardens the rarest 50p in

Circulation page two is complete on page three we need three Olympics Judo shooting and Taekwondo and then after that we have everything up to an including the king’s coronation very nice in the first bag we’re in the finds already that is a Battle of Hastings this was restruck in

2019 so worth just turning over having look at this side if you see 2019 on this side it’s the NFC version you shouldn’t be finding in your change as it is that 2016 version is a low tier keeper here we have pride from 2022 here we have Mrs tigy winkle from 2016

She’s the only one from that set that I don’t keep here we have a brexit from 2020 first 31st of January 2020 here that’s the correct date Here we have something 201750 T Peter Rabbit that’s the second most common commerative 50p you can find after Benjamin bunny I’m going to finish that bag off with another brexit with the correct date on there’s Mr Jeremy Fisher also from the 2017 set and another brecket that’s the third one of the

Day there’s the tail of Peter Rabbit again and here we have a memorial coin very cool and there’s a Glasgow Commonwealth Games dictionary another very common One and another Memorial Coin another Battle of Hastings come on give us a 2019 not this time another tail of Peter Rabbit a few commemoratives in this back that’s VC heroic ax this is another one that was restruck in 2019 2006 is the original circulating year not Surprised another dictionary 2020 22 50 it’s another pride and another tail of Peter Rabbit straight after it’s a 2017 Shield it’s a low mintage year on the shields only 1.8 million million of them were circulated so that is defin from your keeper here we have Paddington at the

Tower it’s a 2019 Paddington don’t hold on to Those there we are diversity our old friend we find that one more than any other commemorative on the channel 2022 it’s another Pride there’s another Paddington at the Tower I think that’s a Benjamin bunny it is a Benjamin bu please don’t have a rotation error I can’t tell well that one will get signed as well somehow I don’t know how I’m actually going to sign That and this is the last bag of the Hunt Okay I’m going to double check all the coins now and make sure I didn’t miss anything the first time round for Shields I’m looking for years 2009 10 11 16 17 18 and anything from 2020 onwards and I’ll pose back in a few seconds with what I

Find okay I finished checking all the coins and I did find one 2017 Shield to add to the other one that we found during the hunt so that’s very cool and then looking back at the hunt itself but pretty skinny today nice number of fines

Um but I think the only ones I’ll be keeping are these Battle of Hastings and the 2017 Shields thank you very much as always for watching if you enjoyed the hunt please do hit the Thumbs Up And subscribe and I’ll see you next time for another Queant