My experience seeing family’s dragging their children around tour after tour, just to get extra coins to sell on eBay, was disheartening, and not interested in collecting at all. In the final months of this coin being available, the mint attempted to reduce the number of times persons could book per day. The tour guides were really getting fed up, of still having to complete the tour, with persons they had already shown around 10 times that same day. They had no interest of what the tour guide was telling them regarding the history of the Royal Mint, they would just walk to the exit doors on each display The coin collectors amongst us, were then finding it difficult to book on a tour to get the coin due to people booking themselves on every single tour of the day Now I believe they are still selling for around £40 It soon caught on that people were willing to buy these coins then on eBay for between £50-£80 Whether you are interested in commemorative coins, Olympic coins, themed coins, or limited editions, there are many 50p coins to choose from. You had to pay to undertake the Royal Mint Experience tour, and striking your own coin at the end.įine! If you live close enough to do this !! Living close by to the mint, it was easy to get my hands on one of these uncirculated coins.
