SCARCITY INDEX 10P, 50P AND £2 COINS
Each quarter Change Checker publishes a ‘Scarcity Index’ tracking which circulating 10p, 50p and £2 coins are most scarce and collectable. We’re proud to work with Change Checker and publish the unique index in every issue of Coin Collector, revealing the mintage, collecting and swap data to give an up-to-date picture of the scarcity of modern coins
With less cash being used because of the current climate, it’s likely this is affecting collecting and it seems this has exposed some new trends on the indexes! You can use the updated A-Z 10p, 50p and £2 indexes shown here to discover how sought-after the coins in your collection really are.
This information has been compiled using data from the Change Checker Swap Centre and presented in the easy to use indexes below, with arrows to signify how many places up or down a coin has moved since the last Scarcity Index.
A-Z 10p Scarcity Index
We’ve seen another big mix up for the latest A-Z 10p Scarcity Index update, with a new leader taking top spot!
In our last Scarcity Index, we saw B for Bond knocked off the top spot by the NHS 10p, but now we’ve seen both of these coins move further down the pack, by eleven and four points, respectively. The Tea 10p takes the top spot for the first time and Bond now sits at the lowest we’ve seen since our A-Z 10p Scarcity Index started!
Other key movers to keep an eye on are the Y for Yeoman
Warders and G for Greenwich Meantime 10ps, both moving up the index by eight places.
Regardless of where they feature on the above index, if you have any of the A-Z 10ps in your collection you should consider yourself lucky, as they are particularly hard to come by in circulation and each design has a relatively low mintage (just 220,000 of each design released in 2018 and 2.1 million overall in 2019).
50p scarcity index
We can’t quite believe it, but it looks as though the Olympic Football 50p has been knocked off second place by the Judo 50p this quarter! However, it’s not done enough to take the top spot, as it sits eighteen points behind the scarcest 50p coin in circulation, the Kew Gardens. But, are you lucky enough to have the Judo 50p in your collection? Let us know!
There’s been quite a lot of shuffling around with the Olympic 50ps, with Table Tennis moving up the index by sixteen places! Although, it’s definitely worth noting that all of the Olympic 50ps are particularly sought-after due to their low mintage figures and an estimated 75% have been removed from
circulation by collectors, making them even harder to get hold of.
Since our last Scarcity Index update, we’ve seen the 2018 Peter Rabbit climb two places but the 2018 Flopsy Bunny 50p has dropped down by four places. As the two rarest Beatrix Potter 50ps in circulation, it’s interesting to see them move in opposite directions on the index, so we’ll be keeping our eye on these over the next quarter…
£2 Scarcity Index
The top five coins on the £2 index remain strong, with the Commonwealth Games Northern Ireland keeping its position at the top, now twenty points above the second most sought-after £2 coin in circulation.
There’s been a slight reshuffling on the top half of the index, with the Commonwealth Games England and Scotland, switching positions from the last index! We’ve also seen the King James Bible £2 jump up four places, bringing it sixth position.
In the bottom half of the index, there’s been some big shakers!
The Shakespeare Histories £2 has dropped a huge thirteen points, pushing into the penultimate spot, and Florence Nightingale has also dropped by six points! We’re yet to see any new £2 coins in our change since demand has been so low.