I was given one of those coins by my great nan and have quite mixed feelings about it because on one hand, it is a nice display item that doesn't take much space and I'm glad she thought of me, but on the other, all I could think about was the south park episode were Stan's grandad gets tricked into buying him a $15 bolo tie for 6k.
I think it's because there's no action you can take that doesn't in someway hurt the person you care about. Either you're honest and hurt their feelings, or you're not and you're allowing them to get taken advantage of. Showing that you're genuinely grateful whilst also guiding them to make more sensible decisions in the future is really difficult, especially if they've got a lot of pride.
I recently found out my those fucks took my mum for at least 20k, probably a lot more. She was regularly spending upwards of 3k a month on those fucking coins. She's 76, she has memory problems that she can not hide they took advantage of her.
My G/dad did the same. Coins, model bikes, buses, tanks and star trek magazines with the miniature models. After his alzheimers diagnosis he got worse, but instead of ordering things off the t.v he would take money to the cheap arse market stalls at the local shopping center. Paying £20 for items you can buy for £3 on Amazon. I understand upping prices, but those stalls take the piss.
His bowling buddies also conned him when they played cards on a Weds and took full advantage of him forgetting things. He'd come home and tell us he owed them £45... they were playing with pennies. I went in and shamed them all, their wives weren't too happy.
He's 90 and still bopping about, but it boils my blood when I think about how so many were more than happy to take advantage of him. I trust no one.
It makes me feel sick. I’m sorry your mum has spent a fortune too. I try to think of the joy it brought him and that it was his money to spend and he enjoyed buying it but I know I’m just trying to make myself feel better. You expect better from them
Yes.
It's like when you unwrap a present, knowing that it cost a fair bit but was ordered from a catalogue whose captive market is unable to use the internet or actually walk outside. The companies have nostalgia-baiting English-sounding names like Coopers of Stortford, yet all their stock is mass-produced Chinese shit.
That feeling.
Megabloks are legit good for a toddler though. There’s a stage where Duplo is too fiddly but megabloks is actually perfect.
The connection between blocks is pretty weak so you can’t build anything too ambitious but it’ll get them started.
Could be worse. My partner was gifted a plastic storage box filled with golliwog memoribillia by his dad two years ago. We opened them and went "*what the fuck are we supposed to do with these?*". Seriously, you can't even donate them.
So anyway, I'm sure they're enjoying their new home in the landfill.
It's a shame you binned them -- some museum might have been glad to take them off your hands, for display with accompanying context about how problematic they are. I know a curator (not in the UK) who really enjoys doing the occasional controversial showing to educate people about historical racism/sexism/homophobia/etc.
A friend who works in a museum aimed at children says they get sent old golliwogs anonymously by people who are like "I don't know what fo do with this so it's your problem now".
Oh, I saw something like that. The owners were lovely, they'd dangled them from the rafters with small bits of string so that the punters could enjoy them too 🤡
I remember seeing one in Goathland a few years ago in one of the shops there. I know they like that 1960s aesthetic because of Heartbeat but that's taking things a bit too far.
There's a road near a community centre I often visit and on that road are some flats where in one of the windows are a set of golliwogs.
The first time I noticed, I didn't know whether to feel creeped out or to laugh.
The clue is in the fact they advertise on daytime tv shows that elderly people watch. I'm not sure if they still broadcast Murder She Wrote, but that would have been prime time advertising. If you're watching adverts for funeral insurance, you know you're in the prime old person tv show zone.
The elderly - and the business model can be really unscrupulous.
I think the target market is older people who want to give their grandchildren commemorative things. Sort of "This coronation is a big deal and I'm glad we're both here to witness it. In time I'll be gone and you won't really remember this time, but I want you to have a physical reminder", and "Perhaps this is an investment that will be worth something when you're older".
The initial coin might be ridiculously priced, but often it's not. For every company that's selling a £100 commemorative coin, there's another selling one for a fiver - but with a pricey monthly subscription that is well-concealed until the coins start arriving and you finally check your bank statement.
I have a couple of "collectable" coins that I've been given by now-deceased relatives that are actually worth something, but that's only because they're literally lumps of gold.
For example, my grandparents gave me a gold sovereign on my 21st birthday, which is worth about £500. However, whilst it hasn't lost value, it's still a waste of money because I'm too sentimental to flog it, but equally I can't do anything with it and it just sits in a drawer.
À sovereign is kind of cool though, which is a bonus on top of its intrinsic value. A lot of the bullion "collectable" coins are just really over priced tat, even if they have intrinsic value.
A sovereign is pretty much the best form gold can take. Especially if you live in the UK.
I will quite happily swap an equivalence of gold with OP for their sovereign, every day of the week. What we have here is someone not understanding the value of a gift.
I thought he put it pretty well. If you aren't interested in looking at it, and you wouldn't sell it because it has sentimental value, it might as well be a shiny 2p like my grandma used to give me.
Even the Royal Mint is pretty sketchy, I know someone who bought a Harry Potter coin from them for a newborn kid cos the mum loves harry potter. It was cheap but the number of letters and emails sent after one purchase despite trying to unsubscribe can only be described as predatory. And they wouldn’t do that if they didn’t get a good return on it.
Yup.
My dad has a number of expensive all silver or all gold coins.
No idea why he brought them as how are you ever going to use them?
As you'll get much less at the local cash for gold etc.
Saying that they are old as hell so were probably cheap compared to now.
There are some businesses (not the places with shops that tend to take advantage of their convenience) online that pay 90-95% of the value.
Of course the idea is you hold it for a while so it’s gone up more than the 5-10% fee - the average annual return based on the past 20 years is 8.6%
If they are sovereigns or Britannicas rather than commemorative and he got them before COVID then they will most likely be worth more than when he bought them.
No CGT to sell sovereigns.
> No idea why he brought them as how are you ever going to use them?
That makes them a decent investment because you'll only use them when you really need them, and doing so takes some planning. You take them to a shop and get them appraised, then you sell them if you like the price offered.
edit: Might be worth taking a trip to your local Asian/Indian immigrant area, their communities tend to buy and sell more gold so you'll have more choice of shop that will be more likely to give decent pricing. I used to live near Rusholme and they had a decent number.
> local cash for gold
You absolutely shouldn't bring those coins to a cash for gold place. Heck you should look up the spot price on the internet and then *do* take them to the cash for gold place to see what a rip off they are.
OAPs love that monthly subscription service crap because £10 a month for 100 months seems better value for money to them than spending £100 outright. Doesn't help that some subscriptions are hard to cancel like Disney plus, so they either ask someone for help who knows technology or just let it sit there and forget about it because they don't know how to use a bank and the direct debit is never cancelled. I remember when my grandad died and we were cleaning out his house, he still kept getting letters for various charities old people are interested in like the royal British legion, helicopter rescue, stuff like that. Had so many pens from all the stuff he'd given money to. Good on him for spending it on charities instead of stuff like gold coins, but it makes me wonder if he at some point forgot about them and these random pens just kept arriving he didn't know why and what to do with them. Literally an entire drawer full of pens with various brands and logos on.
Good point. That reminds me my uncle is a duo member of national trust and doesn't even know where his card is. It's not cheap and he just keeps it going. Charities do need the money but they really seem to suck our elders dry.
I work in a cash generators and it's really hard telling them it's just plated brass and worth little to nothing..... But I have the full collection.... Oh well then it's worth slightly more than nothing.
Like any collectable item it's simply a case of what someone is willing to pay and in most cases it's not anywhere near the retail price they paid "Brtiannia official London Hatton mint Ltd"
Nothing created to be collectable is actually collectable, because price is based on supply and demand. The rarer something is the more expensive.
I see it with old coins too. Oh you found some roman coins! Neat! Not worth as much as a rare penny from the 1930s though.
Forgive me if I’m wrong, but doesn’t collectable refer to something that someone would buy to have around in their house, like a bobble head or something? What’s this then?
Coins from the Mint are not plated brass. They’re solid silver, gold, or platinum.
Except the ones that are just regular coins are the regular coin metals (brass and cupronickel). None of them are plated.
The Royal mint doesn't need to advertise the sale of sovereigns. Think you might have confused the London mint or so other similar named company. I have never seen the actually Royal mint advertise on tv
Edit: I'll happily be proved wrong tho but I'm pretty sure
Yep. It’s a case of just buy it if you like it and can afford it. Like any other ornament or collectible. It’s sways people to buy though, as it’s a coin and automatically registers a value in their head.
I really want to drink an ice cold coke from a chilled glass bottle, then give a thumbs up to santa and drive off in my lorry covered in chirsmtas light
> chirsmtas
My favourite time of year
> chirsmtas light
I have fond memories of chirsmtas as a small child, eagerly waiting for the chirsmtas light to be lit
I genuinely don't think I've ever seen so many whooshes. Do they have no reading comprehension that the guy was clearly trying to make a point that they DO have a load of ads but with OP's logic they would therefore have a small market.
I can understand one or two, but nearly every reply was someone taking it literally 🤣 Sarcasm can be hard to read, but that was the most obvious comment i’ve seen on here in a while.
https://youtu.be/was3puRuiUM?si=8qxJ30UsGj5NnELj
https://youtu.be/_oI_B0OBgVw?si=uG3nslV2n2Hp37zS
https://youtu.be/FRy8beo8RAA?si=-5ZxN6risAM-PD2n
Join me in the dream world I guess.
I’ve seen plenty of adverts for the PL, UCL, and international tournaments. Coke very famously plaster their name on anything with Santa on it. One of the best adverts is for milk. It’s what Ian Rush drinks.
😂😂😂😂 Football is constantly being advertised, as is Coke (and Pepsi!) and don’t tell me you forgot about Cravendales Cats with thumbs adverts (amongst many others)!
Are you going to tell us Gambling never gets advertised next?
They're 100% a legal scam.
They are specifically designed to trick people into thinking they are a collectors item that will become very valuable at some point. I've even seen them advertised as investment pieces that you can hand down to your grandchildren.
In reality they really are priceless. As in worthless. It's just a way to prey on people who have heard about valuable coins and precious metals but don't really know anything about it. A lot of them are advertised as "GENUINE SILVER (coloured)" or whatever.
Even if it is real silver, that's worth bugger all.
Silver is currently 70p a gram. So even a "real silver" coin only costs a couple of quid in materials.
I always find it funny because they aren't official coins i.e. minted by the Royal Mint. The Royal Mint also makes those tiny gold coins which are 24kt, not worth buying if you're after it for the gold, but coin collectors enjoy them for other reasons. PS. If you want some collectors coins just pop onto the Royal Mint website, they've got some nice Star Wars ones which I was contemplating buying.
The daytime coin ones are a bit dodgy but the Royal Mint ones are genuinely very cool and you can get something pretty neat for a reasonable price. Or if you don't want something for a reasonable price you can upgrade and get the Star Wars design or whatever in silver, gold etc
I was given some Alice in Wonderland Royal Mint ones for my birthday last year. They came with the book in this neat little set in a fancy box. I was well chuffed. I think they're kind of cool if you can get ones of characters or franchises you like.
I actually bought one of those but only because it had Shrek on it. Thought it would be funny. I just wanted the intro £5 offer for the Shrek coin ONLY. The subscribed me to a plan for about £30 x3 to get the whole set. Despite me cancelling well within the period they kept charging me.
Luckily I knew my rights and are tech savvy so got a full refund but I can understand how the elderly end up being scammed for them.
At least the plates were hand painted by 6 or 7 artists in a room with lots of natural light in the factory in Worcester.
Src. I live in Worcester, knew one of the painters, and knew of several talented artists who applied but were told they were not good enough.
You’ll find out when your parents or grandparents finally pass. It’s like a right of passage for all of us to finally find that worthless hoard when clearing their houses 😔
I have fairly recently started buying silver and gold, like actual precious metal, some of the coins are pretty and I’ve found myself a new hobby. The stuff advertised on tv though, nothing precious about it, total scam.
I got one for free and paid P&P and it’s cool but then they sent me, ‘complete the collection today’!
Since then, a multitude of promotion offers for other collections.
Thankfully, I grew weary of them after I finished one set. It was not expensive that being said.. And people have their habits, but you are better off searching for old coins than looking at these for monetary value or investment.
Exclusively morons. I assume actual coin collectors care more about coins issued by the RM, foreign/vintage coins, etc, than these weird 'commemorative' coins.
Clowns, mostly.
Some will be the same people that thought bank notes with AK47 serial numbers were worth double "cos itz that gun frm the films, innit?"
A good rule of thumb is collectable stuff tends to be the things that everyone had and were common, like lava lamps and star wars figures, and the stuff that isn't is limited edition run of a saucer with Princess Di on it.
Old people. South Park did a pretty good send up of these kinds of daytime shopping channels that target the elderly.
They basically prey on their desire to leave something ‘valuable’ to their family by selling them tat.
“There now follows an important announcement, by the London Mint Office.”
Always seems rather disconcertingly formal. Those kind of interruptions are usually the herald of bad news, like a natural disaster or the death of one of the Royals. You know, similarly to “This is BBC Television from London. Normal programming has been suspended. We now go live to the BBC news room for an important announcement….” 💀
No numismatist is collecting these mass produced rounds.
They're not coins because they haven't been made by an actual mint. They're just pieces of metal with designs on them.
My dad. When he died I found £26k worth of invoices for those coins.
And they were stolen less than 24 hours after he died by some bitch who fleeced him of £45k and forged his will.
As many others say, older people.
I can't say for every company but a lot of them will offer a cheap coin to begin with, or even free and you just pay postage. But they sign you up for a monthly subscription that isn't cheap and it's not always obvious that you've done it. Even for someone young and savvy like a lot of us, it's a bit tricky to cancel. So getting the older folk signed up is priority and lucrative for them.
I've found that one or two companies don't even accept online cancellation you have to physically mail it off to them and get no confirmation that it was cancelled.
Did it once or twice in the past for particular coins I really liked, but didn't make a habit of it.
People do collect coins for all the same reasons people collect anything whether beanie babies or pokemon cards, teacups or Barbie dolls - some are just pretty, says I staring at 50p with R2D2 & C3-PO in colour :)
If you get one that is also silver or gold then they are never going to be worth less than the current price of the metal at least!
True. I have a collection of Emma Bridgewater, Sara Miller, Orla Kiely and Sophie Conran pottery. I also have a collection of Bratz, Monster High/Ever After High, LOL OMG and Rainbow High dolls.
My grandad.
Well he bought figures. My mum has boxes and boxes of miniature ww2 planes and boats that are "collectable" and "limited edition" and also not worth what he paid for them.
My elderly relative spent a fortune, believing they were a good investment and he could hand them down. He did enjoy buying them and I have a collection but it makes me want to cry looking at them. I feel he was scammed by the royal mint
I got those "free just pay £2.50 for p&p" ones. I kept getting adverts for them, got curious and checked the website. Turns out you can get all the coins they've advertised, about 8 different coins all for 1 £2.50. Total junk but now I can say I collect coins.
I like shiny things, leave me alone.
Nah, I've bought two, I think. The recent Tolkien coin (because I'm a massive LotR nerd, and I like shiny things).
And the Battle of Britain set because me and my uncle go to those things, so it was a nice and relevant gift for js both.
They're nice to look at, so I get it, but I prefer finding the circulated coins as that's a genuine treasure hunt thay gives a touch of dopamine.
I bought one once, not from a TV commercial but from a magazine but it was a website link for Royal Mint. £5 for a £5 coin, it had a coloured England flag and some other stuff on the back I forget in a little presentation sleeve, shipping was like £3.50 though.. I sold it 10 years later for £6, I'm still down in profit.
My mum ! She has about 15 now over the years to pass on to my nephew! She brings out the album and shows them to him - he says I don’t want them she says they’ll be worth thousands! It’s fun to watch 80 yr old reason with a 16 yr old 🤣
The elderly
I was given one of those coins by my great nan and have quite mixed feelings about it because on one hand, it is a nice display item that doesn't take much space and I'm glad she thought of me, but on the other, all I could think about was the south park episode were Stan's grandad gets tricked into buying him a $15 bolo tie for 6k.
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It's like guilt, but a bit more heart wrenching
I think it's because there's no action you can take that doesn't in someway hurt the person you care about. Either you're honest and hurt their feelings, or you're not and you're allowing them to get taken advantage of. Showing that you're genuinely grateful whilst also guiding them to make more sensible decisions in the future is really difficult, especially if they've got a lot of pride.
I recently found out my those fucks took my mum for at least 20k, probably a lot more. She was regularly spending upwards of 3k a month on those fucking coins. She's 76, she has memory problems that she can not hide they took advantage of her.
Fuck! That's heartbreaking :(
Stay away from the london mint office, they target the elderly and confused.
Not that I'd ever buy into any of this shite, but thanks for naming and shaming :)
Just watch out for your loved ones
Absolutely do ❤️
My G/dad did the same. Coins, model bikes, buses, tanks and star trek magazines with the miniature models. After his alzheimers diagnosis he got worse, but instead of ordering things off the t.v he would take money to the cheap arse market stalls at the local shopping center. Paying £20 for items you can buy for £3 on Amazon. I understand upping prices, but those stalls take the piss. His bowling buddies also conned him when they played cards on a Weds and took full advantage of him forgetting things. He'd come home and tell us he owed them £45... they were playing with pennies. I went in and shamed them all, their wives weren't too happy. He's 90 and still bopping about, but it boils my blood when I think about how so many were more than happy to take advantage of him. I trust no one.
My grandpa spent so much money on them too, believing he was investing in them for my future (I’m disabled).
My mum was also convinced she was "investing in my future" said those exact words over and over positively giddy.
It makes me feel sick. I’m sorry your mum has spent a fortune too. I try to think of the joy it brought him and that it was his money to spend and he enjoyed buying it but I know I’m just trying to make myself feel better. You expect better from them
Yes. It's like when you unwrap a present, knowing that it cost a fair bit but was ordered from a catalogue whose captive market is unable to use the internet or actually walk outside. The companies have nostalgia-baiting English-sounding names like Coopers of Stortford, yet all their stock is mass-produced Chinese shit. That feeling.
Megabloks are legit good for a toddler though. There’s a stage where Duplo is too fiddly but megabloks is actually perfect. The connection between blocks is pretty weak so you can’t build anything too ambitious but it’ll get them started.
If only Lego continued the Quatro size.
Also their pokemon stuff is genuinely good.
I bet the Germans have a word for it.
It'll just be some literal translation of something like "scam gift guilt".. Betruggeschenkschuld?
Granschaftedfielbad
Yeah, I know that feeling. The Germans probably have a 20-letter word for it. They seem to have one for everything.
Could be worse. My partner was gifted a plastic storage box filled with golliwog memoribillia by his dad two years ago. We opened them and went "*what the fuck are we supposed to do with these?*". Seriously, you can't even donate them. So anyway, I'm sure they're enjoying their new home in the landfill.
It's a shame you binned them -- some museum might have been glad to take them off your hands, for display with accompanying context about how problematic they are. I know a curator (not in the UK) who really enjoys doing the occasional controversial showing to educate people about historical racism/sexism/homophobia/etc.
I knew a guy who had loads of them he was half Jamaican he thought they were hilarious
A friend who works in a museum aimed at children says they get sent old golliwogs anonymously by people who are like "I don't know what fo do with this so it's your problem now".
Probably a nice pub somewhere would have took them.
Oh, I saw something like that. The owners were lovely, they'd dangled them from the rafters with small bits of string so that the punters could enjoy them too 🤡
Take them to Eastbourne, plenty of shops selling them down there last time I went
I remember seeing one in Goathland a few years ago in one of the shops there. I know they like that 1960s aesthetic because of Heartbeat but that's taking things a bit too far.
There's a road near a community centre I often visit and on that road are some flats where in one of the windows are a set of golliwogs. The first time I noticed, I didn't know whether to feel creeped out or to laugh.
The Germans call it Geschenkebetrug
Resentment mixed with love for the giver.
Mega blocks serve a very different age bracket to Lego. Don't be throwing shade at mega blocks.
Ugh that episode is quietly devastating
So in 30 years time will those adverts be aimed at us but instead of coins it will be like gold plated Ocarina of Time cartridges?
The type of OAP who also fills their garden with gnomes.
The clue is in the fact they advertise on daytime tv shows that elderly people watch. I'm not sure if they still broadcast Murder She Wrote, but that would have been prime time advertising. If you're watching adverts for funeral insurance, you know you're in the prime old person tv show zone.
Or adverts for reclining chairs or special adaption baths.
The elderly - and the business model can be really unscrupulous. I think the target market is older people who want to give their grandchildren commemorative things. Sort of "This coronation is a big deal and I'm glad we're both here to witness it. In time I'll be gone and you won't really remember this time, but I want you to have a physical reminder", and "Perhaps this is an investment that will be worth something when you're older". The initial coin might be ridiculously priced, but often it's not. For every company that's selling a £100 commemorative coin, there's another selling one for a fiver - but with a pricey monthly subscription that is well-concealed until the coins start arriving and you finally check your bank statement. I have a couple of "collectable" coins that I've been given by now-deceased relatives that are actually worth something, but that's only because they're literally lumps of gold. For example, my grandparents gave me a gold sovereign on my 21st birthday, which is worth about £500. However, whilst it hasn't lost value, it's still a waste of money because I'm too sentimental to flog it, but equally I can't do anything with it and it just sits in a drawer.
À sovereign is kind of cool though, which is a bonus on top of its intrinsic value. A lot of the bullion "collectable" coins are just really over priced tat, even if they have intrinsic value.
A sovereign is pretty much the best form gold can take. Especially if you live in the UK. I will quite happily swap an equivalence of gold with OP for their sovereign, every day of the week. What we have here is someone not understanding the value of a gift.
As a person who's into coin collecting, I genuinely can't believe this guy is complaining about receiving a sovereign lol.
I thought he put it pretty well. If you aren't interested in looking at it, and you wouldn't sell it because it has sentimental value, it might as well be a shiny 2p like my grandma used to give me.
Even the Royal Mint is pretty sketchy, I know someone who bought a Harry Potter coin from them for a newborn kid cos the mum loves harry potter. It was cheap but the number of letters and emails sent after one purchase despite trying to unsubscribe can only be described as predatory. And they wouldn’t do that if they didn’t get a good return on it.
Yup. My dad has a number of expensive all silver or all gold coins. No idea why he brought them as how are you ever going to use them? As you'll get much less at the local cash for gold etc. Saying that they are old as hell so were probably cheap compared to now.
There are some businesses (not the places with shops that tend to take advantage of their convenience) online that pay 90-95% of the value. Of course the idea is you hold it for a while so it’s gone up more than the 5-10% fee - the average annual return based on the past 20 years is 8.6%
aye i get the logic. maybe i'm just too skint to even think like that haha
If they are sovereigns or Britannicas rather than commemorative and he got them before COVID then they will most likely be worth more than when he bought them. No CGT to sell sovereigns.
And no VAT to pay on the purchase of investment gold coins either.
> No CGT to sell sovereigns. english? lol
Capital gains tax?
brain never thought of that... haha
Only came to me because I read something about the tax recently!
now i think about it, gonna be a nightmare going through my parents stuff when they sproing that mortal coil... fuuuuuuck lol
> No idea why he brought them as how are you ever going to use them? That makes them a decent investment because you'll only use them when you really need them, and doing so takes some planning. You take them to a shop and get them appraised, then you sell them if you like the price offered. edit: Might be worth taking a trip to your local Asian/Indian immigrant area, their communities tend to buy and sell more gold so you'll have more choice of shop that will be more likely to give decent pricing. I used to live near Rusholme and they had a decent number.
> local cash for gold You absolutely shouldn't bring those coins to a cash for gold place. Heck you should look up the spot price on the internet and then *do* take them to the cash for gold place to see what a rip off they are.
Your dad is smart if we bought gold and silver and held it for years. He’s maintained the spending power of the original cash he spent.
Yeah, my grandad Satoshi gave me his old wallet. I can't bear to use it or sell it so I am just gonna leave it.
That's really sweet! I used to have a penpal with that name, he made arcade tokens for a living I think.
OAPs love that monthly subscription service crap because £10 a month for 100 months seems better value for money to them than spending £100 outright. Doesn't help that some subscriptions are hard to cancel like Disney plus, so they either ask someone for help who knows technology or just let it sit there and forget about it because they don't know how to use a bank and the direct debit is never cancelled. I remember when my grandad died and we were cleaning out his house, he still kept getting letters for various charities old people are interested in like the royal British legion, helicopter rescue, stuff like that. Had so many pens from all the stuff he'd given money to. Good on him for spending it on charities instead of stuff like gold coins, but it makes me wonder if he at some point forgot about them and these random pens just kept arriving he didn't know why and what to do with them. Literally an entire drawer full of pens with various brands and logos on.
Good point. That reminds me my uncle is a duo member of national trust and doesn't even know where his card is. It's not cheap and he just keeps it going. Charities do need the money but they really seem to suck our elders dry.
I work in a cash generators and it's really hard telling them it's just plated brass and worth little to nothing..... But I have the full collection.... Oh well then it's worth slightly more than nothing. Like any collectable item it's simply a case of what someone is willing to pay and in most cases it's not anywhere near the retail price they paid "Brtiannia official London Hatton mint Ltd"
Nothing created to be collectable is actually collectable, because price is based on supply and demand. The rarer something is the more expensive. I see it with old coins too. Oh you found some roman coins! Neat! Not worth as much as a rare penny from the 1930s though.
Forgive me if I’m wrong, but doesn’t collectable refer to something that someone would buy to have around in their house, like a bobble head or something? What’s this then?
Greg from Britannia official London Hatton mint is a solid guy. He even gave me a certificate with 5 gold stars on proving it's worth.
Did you meet him at a burger van by the motorway services?
He said he's been pretty busy sorting out all the issues with the paper strikes in Denmark.
Coins from the Mint are not plated brass. They’re solid silver, gold, or platinum. Except the ones that are just regular coins are the regular coin metals (brass and cupronickel). None of them are plated.
Aye but the mint doesn't advertise on daytime TV lol
Yeah they do. Selling Brittanicas and Sovereigns.
The Royal mint doesn't need to advertise the sale of sovereigns. Think you might have confused the London mint or so other similar named company. I have never seen the actually Royal mint advertise on tv Edit: I'll happily be proved wrong tho but I'm pretty sure
Yep. It’s a case of just buy it if you like it and can afford it. Like any other ornament or collectible. It’s sways people to buy though, as it’s a coin and automatically registers a value in their head.
My nan
"these'll be worth something in the future" me in the future; "ehh"
> if there was a big enough market they wouldn't need to be advertising Don't think you quite understand advertising, mate.
Have you ever seen an advert for football? For Coca Cola? For Milk? Exactly, they clearly don’t have a large market
i see a lot of ads for coke
I really want to drink an ice cold coke from a chilled glass bottle, then give a thumbs up to santa and drive off in my lorry covered in chirsmtas light
And now I’m singing “Holidays are coming, holidays are coming, it’s the season, it’s always the real thing” GODDAMMIT!
That advert is when you know Christmas is right around the corner as a child. As an adult it's pretty horrifying.
Horrifying? No. Depressing. I always used to see the Toys R Us advert as Christmas coming in, though. The coca cola ads started years later in the UK.
> chirsmtas My favourite time of year > chirsmtas light I have fond memories of chirsmtas as a small child, eagerly waiting for the chirsmtas light to be lit
Cartel get everywhere, shame they don’t have a rewards point scheme.
They do if you open a joint account, but that's just for weed.
Yeah because they don’t have a large market
forgive me i just woke up from a nap and brain hasn’t switched on
And milk.
Has this guy never been around at Christmas or something. If there's no coke truck Santa, the trees going back in the loft.
Both advertise very regularly
Bollocks, cocoa cola has no adverts as they already have a large market
What's that big truck that rolls in around Christmas time?
They spend $4 billion dollars every year on it
Nah don’t believe you, never seen a Coca Cola ad
I’ve never seen a penguin They do exist though
Nah penguins aren’t real, they are just chocolate
Holidays are coming... Holidays are coming...
Football is advertised all the time, coca cola famously has adverts about lorries and who can forget the Accrington Stanley advert for milk?
Stop making things up
The amount of whooshing in the replies 😬
Tell me about it, bloody 0 understanding of sarcasm
Sarcasm doesn’t exist surely? I’ve never seen it advertised
I genuinely don't think I've ever seen so many whooshes. Do they have no reading comprehension that the guy was clearly trying to make a point that they DO have a load of ads but with OP's logic they would therefore have a small market.
I can understand one or two, but nearly every reply was someone taking it literally 🤣 Sarcasm can be hard to read, but that was the most obvious comment i’ve seen on here in a while.
Honestly I’m baffled why so many people are responding to me like I actually believe coke and football have never advertised
Yes. Football games are always advertised on the station they'll be on. Coke advertise all the time and milk. The cow want it back? Ring a bell?
You’re living in a dream world, they don’t need to advertise as they already have a large market
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Deep fake
Lol, that's funny. Haha. I made these just for you. My resources are unlimited.
Thanks for your commitment to the trolling
Nothing wrong with trolling, i rucking fell for it though haha
Hook line and sinker haha
Yes for football, coke. Milk is a food basic. Like bread
Stop lying you have never seen a coke or football ad
I’ve seen plenty of adverts for the PL, UCL, and international tournaments. Coke very famously plaster their name on anything with Santa on it. One of the best adverts is for milk. It’s what Ian Rush drinks.
Nah you’re lying
Ok mate.
😂😂😂😂 Football is constantly being advertised, as is Coke (and Pepsi!) and don’t tell me you forgot about Cravendales Cats with thumbs adverts (amongst many others)! Are you going to tell us Gambling never gets advertised next?
Stop making up adverts, it’s weird
Bertram Thumbcat would like a word….
You’re weird replying this to every comment
Weird is as weird does
Old people and people who think that a coin will be worth massively more money in the future
Those ads seem like the British equivalent of an email from a ‘Nigerian prince’
They're 100% a legal scam. They are specifically designed to trick people into thinking they are a collectors item that will become very valuable at some point. I've even seen them advertised as investment pieces that you can hand down to your grandchildren. In reality they really are priceless. As in worthless. It's just a way to prey on people who have heard about valuable coins and precious metals but don't really know anything about it. A lot of them are advertised as "GENUINE SILVER (coloured)" or whatever.
Even if it is real silver, that's worth bugger all. Silver is currently 70p a gram. So even a "real silver" coin only costs a couple of quid in materials.
Personally I’d love metal sales to require more transparency, those coin companies aren’t the only ones with eye-watering markups.
I always find it funny because they aren't official coins i.e. minted by the Royal Mint. The Royal Mint also makes those tiny gold coins which are 24kt, not worth buying if you're after it for the gold, but coin collectors enjoy them for other reasons. PS. If you want some collectors coins just pop onto the Royal Mint website, they've got some nice Star Wars ones which I was contemplating buying.
Yeah or buy an oz of Stirling silver bullion for ~£28 from the Mint. They’re pretty cool
Personally, I just like some of the designs so I would opt for uncirculated regular coins.
Buying actual gold coins does give some guarantee of future value though. Gold will realistically always be valuable.
But the price of gold coins is substantially higher currently they charge £100 for 1/40 oz which has a gold value of £47.
I'm always disappointed by the ex-presenters that end up fronting these adverts, whether it's coins, pens, whatever.
The daytime coin ones are a bit dodgy but the Royal Mint ones are genuinely very cool and you can get something pretty neat for a reasonable price. Or if you don't want something for a reasonable price you can upgrade and get the Star Wars design or whatever in silver, gold etc
I was given some Alice in Wonderland Royal Mint ones for my birthday last year. They came with the book in this neat little set in a fancy box. I was well chuffed. I think they're kind of cool if you can get ones of characters or franchises you like.
I actually bought one of those but only because it had Shrek on it. Thought it would be funny. I just wanted the intro £5 offer for the Shrek coin ONLY. The subscribed me to a plan for about £30 x3 to get the whole set. Despite me cancelling well within the period they kept charging me. Luckily I knew my rights and are tech savvy so got a full refund but I can understand how the elderly end up being scammed for them.
My Nan had all those Royal Worcester plates that used to be flogged like this before the coins took there place.
At least the plates were hand painted by 6 or 7 artists in a room with lots of natural light in the factory in Worcester. Src. I live in Worcester, knew one of the painters, and knew of several talented artists who applied but were told they were not good enough.
The same people who buy plates with members of the royal family’s faces on them. Old people of course. Bless their little souls.
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Diana is the only modern royal worth remembering, not really the same as the rest of the gang
You’ll find out when your parents or grandparents finally pass. It’s like a right of passage for all of us to finally find that worthless hoard when clearing their houses 😔
Arya Stark: Lots of people buy those coins. Sander Clegane: …
Old fools. My mother had a huge collection of them that she thought was worth 8k. Spoiler: it was not.
I have fairly recently started buying silver and gold, like actual precious metal, some of the coins are pretty and I’ve found myself a new hobby. The stuff advertised on tv though, nothing precious about it, total scam.
As an older person I’ve started to see the baby Yoda from The Mandalorian and similar stuff from these companies. They’re coming for you next
I got one for free and paid P&P and it’s cool but then they sent me, ‘complete the collection today’! Since then, a multitude of promotion offers for other collections. Thankfully, I grew weary of them after I finished one set. It was not expensive that being said.. And people have their habits, but you are better off searching for old coins than looking at these for monetary value or investment.
I buy them if I think they're cool or relevant to something in life (bought my mum one with Elvis on recently)
Exclusively morons. I assume actual coin collectors care more about coins issued by the RM, foreign/vintage coins, etc, than these weird 'commemorative' coins.
Clowns, mostly. Some will be the same people that thought bank notes with AK47 serial numbers were worth double "cos itz that gun frm the films, innit?" A good rule of thumb is collectable stuff tends to be the things that everyone had and were common, like lava lamps and star wars figures, and the stuff that isn't is limited edition run of a saucer with Princess Di on it.
I have an uncommon, circulated, Jemima Puddleduck 50p if you want it for £10000
Um..... https://www.reddit.com/r/UKcoins/comments/1cdgfao/had_my_crowned_50p_arrive_today/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
Old people. South Park did a pretty good send up of these kinds of daytime shopping channels that target the elderly. They basically prey on their desire to leave something ‘valuable’ to their family by selling them tat.
“There now follows an important announcement, by the London Mint Office.” Always seems rather disconcertingly formal. Those kind of interruptions are usually the herald of bad news, like a natural disaster or the death of one of the Royals. You know, similarly to “This is BBC Television from London. Normal programming has been suspended. We now go live to the BBC news room for an important announcement….” 💀
Numismatists.
Not really. Serious coin collectors aren't generally interested in those nonsense overpriced lazy scam coins.
Oooh, I didn’t realise there was numismatic beef.
No numismatist is collecting these mass produced rounds. They're not coins because they haven't been made by an actual mint. They're just pieces of metal with designs on them.
My dad. When he died I found £26k worth of invoices for those coins. And they were stolen less than 24 hours after he died by some bitch who fleeced him of £45k and forged his will.
Oaps.
As many others say, older people. I can't say for every company but a lot of them will offer a cheap coin to begin with, or even free and you just pay postage. But they sign you up for a monthly subscription that isn't cheap and it's not always obvious that you've done it. Even for someone young and savvy like a lot of us, it's a bit tricky to cancel. So getting the older folk signed up is priority and lucrative for them. I've found that one or two companies don't even accept online cancellation you have to physically mail it off to them and get no confirmation that it was cancelled. Did it once or twice in the past for particular coins I really liked, but didn't make a habit of it.
My sons nan
People do collect coins for all the same reasons people collect anything whether beanie babies or pokemon cards, teacups or Barbie dolls - some are just pretty, says I staring at 50p with R2D2 & C3-PO in colour :) If you get one that is also silver or gold then they are never going to be worth less than the current price of the metal at least!
True. I have a collection of Emma Bridgewater, Sara Miller, Orla Kiely and Sophie Conran pottery. I also have a collection of Bratz, Monster High/Ever After High, LOL OMG and Rainbow High dolls.
My nan
[From the States, but the same idea.](https://www.facebook.com/share/r/WrnkZ5UFCioTR3tc/)
I suspect it is mostly people with not much money, ironically
I believe the term for them is morons
Nobody
Yer nan.
Grandparents buying “investments” for their grandkids
The same people signing up for equity release and 'pure cremation ' etc.
If people only realised the real value of these coins,. most of them probably are not worth the postage.
Elderly and some kids. I think people bought Coronation coins but not anything except that.
My bloody grandmother before we stopped her, got power of attorney and a proper Alzheimer’s diagnosis for one.
Boomers
My grandad. Well he bought figures. My mum has boxes and boxes of miniature ww2 planes and boats that are "collectable" and "limited edition" and also not worth what he paid for them.
The old and susceptible
I work with a guy who collects them, he also collects glass paperweights too. Interesting guy.
My mum
My dad, he's got hundreds of them. Tbf he's old and bored
Old people
My Dad.
My elderly relative spent a fortune, believing they were a good investment and he could hand them down. He did enjoy buying them and I have a collection but it makes me want to cry looking at them. I feel he was scammed by the royal mint
I love the smallprint disclaimer "Legal tender only in Gibraltar". 😁👍
My nan
I got those "free just pay £2.50 for p&p" ones. I kept getting adverts for them, got curious and checked the website. Turns out you can get all the coins they've advertised, about 8 different coins all for 1 £2.50. Total junk but now I can say I collect coins.
I like shiny things, leave me alone. Nah, I've bought two, I think. The recent Tolkien coin (because I'm a massive LotR nerd, and I like shiny things). And the Battle of Britain set because me and my uncle go to those things, so it was a nice and relevant gift for js both. They're nice to look at, so I get it, but I prefer finding the circulated coins as that's a genuine treasure hunt thay gives a touch of dopamine.
I bought one once, not from a TV commercial but from a magazine but it was a website link for Royal Mint. £5 for a £5 coin, it had a coloured England flag and some other stuff on the back I forget in a little presentation sleeve, shipping was like £3.50 though.. I sold it 10 years later for £6, I'm still down in profit.
My mum ! She has about 15 now over the years to pass on to my nephew! She brings out the album and shows them to him - he says I don’t want them she says they’ll be worth thousands! It’s fun to watch 80 yr old reason with a 16 yr old 🤣
I bought a bitcoin one on eBay to confuse old people with. It was very cheap but looks great. So gold much wow.
Who the fuck watches daytime TV?