Have you spend a rare and valuable coin or banknote without knowing it?

Good evening Numista users

Have you ever spend a rare and valuable coin or banknote without knowing it?

I have done that on several occasions first around 2009-10 I was in school and my parents bought money from the bank to pay for my lunch money and I faintly remember that some of the 50 pence pieces had the Kew Gardens design on them and I used them to pay for my school lunch money. Then around last year I came across Christopher Collects YouTube coin videos and he said that he owns only 2 Kew Gardens in his collects because it was so rare to come by. But since then I have regretted what I did back then.

A couple of years later when the 2011 Olympic 50ps were first circulated I can clearly remember getting sealed bags of some of the designs and slowly using them to pay my lunch money and to use as pocket money. Butafter several months I used all of them up and since then I didn’t know why I spent them all but when I was clearing out my drawer in late 2019 I found a Olympic archery that I stashed there when I was younger it was in great shape with only a few dings from being used back then.


little extra after finding that Olympic coin I found a 2016 new pound coin in AU condition that I stashed there when they came out but it suddenly dawned on me that I had a half full coin box full of the older pound coins and that all went to the bank to be paid into my bank account and in 2019 I was cleaning the car interior and I suddenly remembered that I lost 3 older pound coins back in 2013. Where the seat joins the seat belt holder there is a small gap where you can put your fingers down there so I lifted the padding up and found 3 pound coins two first year 1983s and one 2010 shield design so I decided to keep them and a few days later paid them in to the bank.


Cut the long story short these are the ways I spent rare coin without knowing it hopefully you have better or worse time when you spent valuable and rare coins or notes.

Strangely that happened to me this afternoon.
I went into a shop early this morning, and spent £6 and gave a £20 note, so
got £14 change. Nothing special about the 4 of £1 coins, but the polymer note was nice -
and hopefully valuable in the future ...

Reason being that this afternoon, so quite a few hours later, I spent it in another shop -
then walking out of there I remembered the note, so quickly ran back and asked the cashier if I
could swap it for 2 of £5 notes that I happened to have. Phew - glad I remembered in time.

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​ Strangely that happened to me this afternoon.
​I went into a shop early this morning, and spent £6 and gave a £20 note, so
​got £14 change. Nothing special about the 4 of £1 coins, but the polymer note was nice -
​and hopefully valuable in the future ...
​
​ Reason being that this afternoon, so quite a few hours later, I spent it in another shop -
​then walking out of there I remembered the note, so quickly ran back and asked the cashier if I
​could swap it for 2 of £5 notes that I happened to have. Phew - glad I remembered in time.

​You was quite lucky that time.

I'm sure I did it, but I'd never know about it:))

Quote: "Grinya"​I'm sure I did it, but I'd never know about it:))

​Sometimes this happens.

Quote: "ZacUK"​
​ Strangely that happened to me this afternoon.
​I went into a shop early this morning, and spent £6 and gave a £20 note, so
​got £14 change. Nothing special about the 4 of £1 coins, but the polymer note was nice -
​and hopefully valuable in the future ...
​
​ Reason being that this afternoon, so quite a few hours later, I spent it in another shop -
​then walking out of there I remembered the note, so quickly ran back and asked the cashier if I
​could swap it for 2 of £5 notes that I happened to have. Phew - glad I remembered in time.

​What's so special about the note? Is it the first prefix?

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Quote: "ZacUK"​

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​​What's so special about the note? Is it the first prefix?

​Yes it is the first prefix and after nearly 3 years of hunting them I haven’t found any AA prefixes but I did find 3 consecutive notes but I accidentally spent them on a few bags of 50ps to hunt through.🙁