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The Check Your Change admin is Mr C H Perkins, publisher of numismatic publications in printed and eBook format. Author of "Collectors' Coins - Decimal Issues of the UK" and other books on British coins and related subjects.

26/6/2023 Updates made to the website

By on 26th June 2023

The One Penny to £2 coins sections now cover all coins issued up to the end of 2022. The current book covers the same period but also features proof coins, precious metals and a lot more information within its 204

The New Decimal Coin Book!

By on 23rd December 2022

  The new Collectors’ Coins – Decimal Issues of the UK (AKA Check Your Change) will be published on the 15th February 2023. It will be available from the usual places, e.g. on Amazon and directly from the publisher’s website:

New 2021 Collectors’ Coins Decimal book

By on 12th November 2021

The new 2021 Collectors’ Coins – Decimal Issues of the UK (AKA Check Your Change) is now available to purchase. It can be found in the usual places, e.g. on Amazon: New book on Amazon (UK) Or from the publisher

28/2/2021 Updates made to the website.

By on 28th February 2021

Over the last few days all of the Half pence to £2 coins have been brought right up to date. Changes have been made to the mintage figures of some older coins due to new data being available and £5

7/3/2020 Updates made to the website

By on 7th March 2020

Over the last few days the 50p, £2 and £20 note sections of the website have been updated with the current coins (and new £20). Many images have also been improved. These changes (and more) will soon be reflected in

21/10/19 Updates on the website and App

By on 21st October 2019

I’ve just added the recently released 2018 coin mintage figures and have also added the most recent 2019 commemorative coins. Everything should be bang up to date now! Also, the new information and of course the very latest price information

The first confirmed fake new £1 coins

By on 23rd December 2018

This odd looking and quite distinctly flawed 2017 dated £1 coin appeared in circulation in about November 2018. About eight visually very similar coins are known. All came to light within weeks of each other and the two I examined

Retrospective Mintage changes

By on 28th August 2018

Noted recently are a number of published Royal Mint amendments to old mintage figures. Perhaps they went through their figures and noticed that some were not quite correct. The changes themselves are not massive and seem to have affected coins

Project to list known Error coins

By on 9th August 2018

It’s about time there was an attempt to list known UK decimal error coins. I need your help to point out coins that I may have missed or simply don’t know about yet. I am very interested in listing the

‘Premature Release’ Paddington Bear 50p nonsense

By on 13th June 2018

The forthcoming Paddington Bear 50p has been in the news lately after seemingly appearing in circulation before it’s official release date. This seems to have excited some eBay users and tabloids. Jim H was also perplexed and wrote to me