English Coins

[Caran]

During clearing out of my late brothers house I have found a lot of english coins.
1p, 2p, 5p, 10p, 20p etc . I have sorted them into bags. I’d say half of them are dated 1947 which was the year of his birth. I reckon there is about £80 worth.
I don’t know what to do with them, any help would be appreciated.

[brainiac]

This is one company that will pay you for at least some of them:

https://www.cash4coins.co.uk/change-old-british-coins/

[Hazlinny]

Some (repeat some)banks will take pre-decimal coins and give you face value decimal money in return. Worth enquiring locally.

[Maydup]

You mention 1p, 2p, 5p, 10p, 20p etc. but you say many are 1947. Would they therefore be 1d, 6d, 1s etc? Is this £80 worth of pre decimal coins or are some of them current coins?

[Buenchico]

If you've really got 1p, 2p, 5p, 10p, 20p coins from 1947, it'll be a miracle! We didn't use decimal currency until 1971 ;-)

There are plenty of people who try to sell old coins on eBay, e.g.
https://tinyurl.com/bdz37j2b
but that doesn't necessarily mean that there are any buyers for their offers. I'd be tempted to offer the whole lot in a single eBay auction sale, with a starting price of around their total face value.

However what I think that I'd actually end up doing is donating them to the RNIB:
https://www.rnib.org.uk/get-involved/fundraise/do-your-own-fundraising/foreign-and-old-currency/

[Caran]

There is a mixture of old and new coins.

[Maydup]

Well new coins can be changed up at the bank or at the coin machine in the lobby of certain supermarkets.

https://www.coinstar.co.uk/findamachine

[Buenchico]

^^^ Coinstar take 10.9% (+25p) of your money!

[Hopkirk]

The 5p, 10p and 50p coins are probably the old size ones, so may not be legal tender.

[Buenchico]

It might be worth asking your local auction house if they think that it's worth you trying to sell them there:
https://mewsauctions.co.uk/

[douglas9401]

Used this lot in the past, if it's worthless they'll tell you and return it to you if you want.

https://www.vintagecashcow.co.uk/items-we-buy/old-currency