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 that already had very large mintages, so I suspect it won’t be reported in the papers/tabloid websites and it won’t cause a silly frenzy on eBay, which makes a refreshing change!
The changes have been reflected on this website and will be changed in the next update of the app (and of course in the next book).
Coin affected by mintage number changes were:
Half Penny
1977
Pennies
2000, 2001
Two Pences
1991, 1996, 1998 (separate figures for the bronze and copper plated steel types for the first time), 2000, 2001
Five Pences
2000, 2001
Ten Pences
2000, 2001,
Twenty Pences
2000, 2005
Fifty Pence
2005 (Britannia)
One Pound
2001
Two Pound
1999 (Technology)
Thanks to Neil Baldwin, Lee Holt and Candice Clews for bringing this to my attention.
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Robert
1st July 2022
I’ve always thought there must be something wrong with the mintage figure for the 1976 2p. It’s not rare but seems to be much scarcer in circulation than the mintage would suggest.