On 15 Jun, 17:08, Tom Anderson wrote:
On Sun, 15 Jun 2008, Colin Rosenstiel wrote:
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I have noticed lately that there appear to be much less coins 1-
and 2-pound coins, plus 50-pence coins with special reverses in
circulation. Is it becoming a trend for the general public to hoard
these coins?

Since all £1 coin reverses are "special" I'm not sure what you mean
there.

Some are more special than others!

Have a butcher's:

http://www.ukcoinpics.co.uk/dec1p.html

IME, the 1983 etc all-UK reverse is far and away the most common one to
come across. The mid-80s Scottish and Welsh are level-pegging in second
place. The NI flax flower design is rarer, as is the English royal oak.
The 1988 UK is really quite unusual to see. The mid-90s national designs
and the bridges are now also pretty common - about the same as the 80s
Scottish and Welsh, i'd say. I have yet to see one of the new pounds in
the wild .

The 1983 etc UK is sort of a 'standard' design, making all the others
'special', but it's really the rarer ones that i'd consider special enough
to describe as special.

The 1983 design had to replace every £1 note in circulation, so
there's bound to be more of them. After that it would just be
replacements for natural wastage (or whatever it's called).

For a long time there were far more 1971 "copper" coins than any other
year, but it's starting to even out now.