Reply to: New £50 note

[MarillionFan]

Addendum:

A quicker way to check is to use a magnet (the old ones aren't magnetic).

I was wondering what the scrap price is today. I found a quote of £4.23/kg for scrap copper (after converting from dollars and lbs). And as MF's article says, 145 2p coins (£2.90 worth) provide 1kg of scrap copper.

So 145 2p coins worth £2.90 is worth £4.23 as scrap (+ zinc leftovers).

Very odd - those figures need checking - as with a return like that copper coins should have disappeared ages ago, whereas just under half of mine (4 out of 11) are pre 1992. Hmm.

Defacing the Queens head thing????

Just registered Www.cashforcoppers.co.uk. Will pay 2.5p per 2p coin or £20 for each warrant card.

[TimberWolf]

Checks coins (I happen to have a lot of the miserable suckers that wear holes in my pockets):

2p's: 2001, 2000, 2003, 1977, 1989, 1971, 2001
1p's: 2011, 1999

So I'm sitting on a small fortune and didn't realise. Not read the article yet.

Addendum:

A quicker way to check is to use a magnet (the old ones aren't magnetic).

I was wondering what the scrap price is today. I found a quote of £4.23/kg for scrap copper (after converting from dollars and lbs). And as MF's article says, 145 2p coins (£2.90 worth) provide 1kg of scrap copper.

So 145 2p coins worth £2.90 is worth £4.23 as scrap (+ zinc leftovers).

Very odd - those figures need checking - as with a return like that copper coins should have disappeared ages ago, whereas just under half of mine (4 out of 11) are pre 1992. Hmm.

[TimberWolf]

m.guardian.co.uk

Actually some 2ps (pre 1992) contain more copper than the value of the coin. According to a 2006 article they were worth 3p, in Feb 2011 copper was £6200 a tonne! So about 6p

Every penny counts.

Checks coins (I happen to have a lot of the miserable suckers that wear holes in my pockets):

2p's: 2001, 2000, 2003, 1977, 1989, 1971, 2001
1p's: 2011, 1999

So I'm sitting on a small fortune and didn't realise. Not read the article yet.

[MarillionFan]

The might as well get rid of coppers now. The 2p piece is enormous and practically useless.

Interesting factette: The 20p and 50p pieces have a fixed diameter but not a fixed radius.

Curve of constant width - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

m.guardian.co.uk

Actually some 2ps (pre 1992) contain more copper than the value of the coin. According to a 2006 article they were worth 3p, in Feb 2011 copper was £6200 a tonne! So about 6p

Every penny counts.

[AtW]

What I find interesting that not just inventor (Watt) who gets to be on the banknote but also the person who financed him!

[NickFitz]

I have a 2p and 10p one armed bandit in my hallway. Always keeps visitors occupied.

Do you give them a plastic cup of instant coffee if they stay more than half-an-hour?

[Paddy]

Our coppers aren't totally useless. They still have 1¢ coins in the US which IS pointless though.

2ps are good for those games at the arcade where you try to win more 2ps.

I have a 2p and 10p one armed bandit in my hallway. Always keeps visitors occupied.

[d000hg]

The might as well get rid of coppers now. The 2p piece is enormous and practically useless.

Interesting factette: The 20p and 50p pieces have a fixed diameter but not a fixed radius.

Curve of constant width - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Our coppers aren't totally useless. They still have 1¢ coins in the US which IS pointless though.

2ps are good for those games at the arcade where you try to win more 2ps.

[Zippy]

Ah, you didn't get my joke then. Unless you are triple bluffing in which case I'm bluffing^4.

Your mum ^5

[TimberWolf]

Really? That so doesn't sound like you. I've always thought of you as a decisive, politically incorrect kind of poster.

Ah, you didn't get my joke then. Unless you are triple bluffing in which case I'm bluffing^4.

[Zippy]

I hesitate to enquire what a gold plated crack pipe is.

Really? That so doesn't sound like you. I've always thought of you as a decisive, politically incorrect kind of poster.

[TimberWolf]

The might as well get rid of coppers now. The 2p piece is enormous and practically useless.

Interesting factette: The 20p and 50p pieces have a fixed diameter but not a fixed radius.

Curve of constant width - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[TimberWolf]

I use 'em to light the gold-plated crack pipe. Obviously only when I'm economising.

I hesitate to enquire what a gold plated crack pipe is.

[vetran]

The £20 is the most common Bank of England note in circulation, with 1.55 billion notes in circulation worth £31bn.

surely a tenner? I'm not sure where the twenty is used but I always have a few tenners in my wallet.

[Zippy]

I use those for the heating

I use 'em to light the gold-plated crack pipe. Obviously only when I'm economising.