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Check Your Change

By Chris Henry Perkins.

Important research and initial layout concept by

Scott D Simon.

ISBN13: 978- 0-948964-80-0

A comprehensive UK decimal coin and circulating

banknote catalogue. Collectors’ issues, Proof and BU

sets plus Gold and Silver bullion issues are included.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

Introduction.................................................................................................................... 3

New in 2008/Using this Catalogue...................................................................... 4

Mintages........................................................................................................................... 5

Coin Grades ................................................................................................................... 5

BACKGROUND OF DECIMALISATION

The Decimalisation of United Kingdom Coinage ............................................. 6

Timeline of Decimal Coinage.................................................................................... 7

LISTINGS

Half Penny ....................................................................................................................... 8

Penny................................................................................................................................10

Two Pence....................................................................................................................... 13

Five Pence ....................................................................................................................... 16

Ten Pence......................................................................................................................20

Twenty Pence................................................................................................................24

Twenty-Five Pence (Early Decimal Crowns)........................................................26

Fifty Pence.....................................................................................................................28

One Pound Coins.......................................................................................................38

Two Pound Coins........................................................................................................45

Britains Only £2.50 coin .........................................................................................55

Five Pound Coins........................................................................................................56

Banknote Introduction..............................................................................................63

Five Pound Notes .......................................................................................................64

Ten Pound Notes........................................................................................................66

Twenty Pound Notes.................................................................................................68

Fifty Pound Notes..................................................................................................... 70

Proof Year Sets .............................................................................................................72

BU Folder Sets .............................................................................................................74

Special Collector Issues.............................................................................................76

Special Collector Issues - Piedforts.......................................................................78

Special Collector Issues - Patterns ........................................................................79

Silver and Platinum Britannia Coins .................................................................... 80

Gold Britannia Coins.................................................................................................. 81

Sovereign Based Single Coins..................................................................................82

Sovereign Based sets ..................................................................................................85

Maundy Money...........................................................................................................86

INTRODUCTION

In the late 60s, when people knew that the old money would soon be replaced with

decimal coins, everybody was checking their change for the ﬁrst time. The original

Rotographic ‘Check Your Change’ book sold 1.75 million copies back then.

Decimal coinage has been with us for forty years but is often overlooked as it has

yet to prove itself in the test of time. As time progresses I believe that interest in

decimal coinage will increase and with this new interest will come a need for refer-

ence material. This book is designed to begin the process of compiling in-depth

records of the coinage minted by the Royal Mint and to (hopefully) become a

fundamental reference guide for all decimal coinage.

The main aim of this book is to put the general public ‘in the know’ about the

coins and banknotes that they handle every day - the scarce coin types and the

banknotes with the rare serial numbers. As the title suggests, this is a guide book

on how to ‘Check Your Change’.

Rumours frequently do the rounds about this coin or that banknote being worth

huge amounts of money. Mostly, these rumours are unfounded and all they do is

annoy coin dealers who end up taking call upon call from soon-to-be disappointed

people! This book contains the facts and no Chinese whispers.

I also believe that this inexpensive book, with listings and colour pictures of every

single decimal coin type and circulating banknote, will provide an excellent guide

to modern coinage and as such, should aid existing collectors and hopefully,

stimulate new ones. This should hopefully lead to a wider collector base, and as a

result, more business for coin dealers and banknote dealers across the country.

In short, it is time once again to ‘Check Your Change’.

Be armed with the same information that coin collectors have had for years!

Good luck,

Chris Henry Perkins, London, January 2008.

CHECK

YOUR

CHANGE - UK

DECIMAL

MONEY

NEW IN 2008

Probably the most interesting recent development for people that like to Check

their Change is the issue by the Bank of England of £10 notes with Merlyn

Lowther signatures and higher preﬁxes than was thought possible! Until recently

it was thought that the Merlyn Lowther £10 notes with CC preﬁxes stopped at

CC40 in 2003. The earliest CC preﬁxes from her successor are CC41. It seems

though that the Bank must be using up old stocks of paper bearing the Lowther

signature as crisp new notes with CC preﬁxes as high as CC77 have been seen for

Lowther £10 notes. At the time of writing CC77 Lowther £10 notes have been

selling for £50+ each as banknote collectors believe that they are the very last

Lowther £10 notes. The fragile thing here is that as soon as CC78 appears (if it

does) the CC77 notes are likely to be worth £10 again! No one knows how high

the Bank of England will go with the Lowther CC preﬁx, and for obvious reasons

they never make that kind of information available to the public. Will the old paper

stock run out at CC77 or will it go right up to, or beyond CC80? I’d certainly like

to here about any Lowther £10 notes with CC preﬁxes higher than CC77.

As far as coins are concerned, take a look at page 53 for details on a newly dis-

covered £2 silver proof coin with an incorrect edge inscription. Page 55 features

Britains only £2.50 coin!

USING THIS CATALOGUE

The values listed in this catalogue are the result of many hours of compiling

and comparing the prices offered by online dealers, online auctions, dealer sales

lists, live-auction catalogues, and other sources. For some items, there is such a

limited number of transactions on which to base the values that they may seem

conservative.

Values are only given for uncirculated grades at the current time. The reason for

this decision is that with the high mintage ﬁgures of virtually all coins covered in

this catalogue, any coin that is not in uncirculated grade usually has virtually no

value above the face value. As a matter of fact, many recent issues are so readily

available that even in uncirculated grades, they have no value above face value.

(such coins are listed as FV - Face Value). Please remember: Most modern coins

are only desirable in UNC condition, which means ‘as new’.

It must also be realised that especially with the lower valued coins, the time and

effort needed to document, catalogue, and list these items for sale by a dealer is

often not cost-effective, and thus it is often much more difﬁcult to locate a par-

ticular coin than the low value would indicate.

CHECK

YOUR

CHANGE - UK

DECIMAL

MONEY

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