{"id":1673,"date":"2025-02-04T16:42:10","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T16:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/02\/people-warned-not-to-clean-old-coins-and-why-mistakes-could-be-worth-thousands\/"},"modified":"2025-02-04T16:42:10","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T16:42:10","slug":"people-warned-not-to-clean-old-coins-and-why-mistakes-could-be-worth-thousands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/04\/people-warned-not-to-clean-old-coins-and-why-mistakes-could-be-worth-thousands\/","title":{"rendered":"People warned not to clean old coins and why mistakes could be worth thousands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2024-10-02 14:15:22<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>People have been warned not to clean their old coins because they could be worth a small fortune.<BR><br \/>\nA TikTok user explained that due to the amount of coins made each day by the Royal Mint, &#8220;mistakes can happen&#8221; which can add value to the piece.<BR><br \/>\nIn a video, @CoinCollectingWizard told his followers: &#8220;You should never clean your coins and here is why&#8230;<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;A 2p coin is usually in copper colour but instead this particular coin was accidentally minted on the same base as a 10p coin.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;The Royal Mint manufactures between [three to four] million coins a day, so it&#8217;s understandable that sometimes mistakes can happen.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;The penny is known as a mule or an error coin making them &#8216;super rare&#8217; which makes it &#8216;super valuable&#8217; to collectors as they&#8217;re nearly one-of-a-kind.&#8221;<BR><br \/>\nSuch coins can actually be &#8220;nearly one-of-kind&#8221;, while one 2p piece from 1983 could be worth over a grand.<BR><br \/>\nHe added: &#8220;But if you think that is special, check out the next coin.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;The 1983 New Pence Two Pence is considered rare due to a specific transition in the design.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;In 1983, the Royal Mint began the process of changing the inscription on the coin, from New Pence to Two Pence. If you find this rare coin, you are looking at \u00a31,000+.&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bangpremier.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Visit Bang Premier (main website) <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/xtbac.js\" data-video=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2024-10-02 14:15:22 People have been warned not to clean their old coins because they could be worth a small fortune. A TikTok user explained that due to the amount of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1674,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bizarre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1673"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1675,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1673\/revisions\/1675"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}