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2024 Change Checker Awards – Winners Revealed!
Change Checkers, it’s the moment you’ve all been waiting for, the 2024 Change Checker Awards winners ceremony!
2024 was an amazing year for UK coins and for collectors too. We had so many incredible nominations for Change Checker and Junior Change Checker of the Year, but there can only be one winner of each…
Change Checker of the Year
Our 2024 Change Checker of the Year is…Bryan Hyman!
Bryan was nominated three times for his coin knowledge, kindness and generosity helping others build their collections, and of course a very impressive collection of his own!
Congratulations Bryan, keep up the good work!
Junior Change Checker of the Year
This year, Junior Change Checkers of the Year goes to…Dylan from Sussex!
Dylan was nominated by his mum who said that, at just 11 years old, he has a fantastic coin collection and is hugely knowledgeable about coins and their history. He helps his school friends to discover the joy of collecting, swapping with each other to grow their collections, and he even has his own YouTube channel – check him out @DylanCollectsCoins
Congratulations Dylan, keep collecting and inspiring others.
Both Bryan and Dylan will be receiving a personalized engraved Change Checker trophy, a Change Checker bundle of goodies worth £50 AND a year’s subscription to Coin Collector Magazine! A big thank you to All About Coins for gifting the subscriptions for this year’s Change Checker Awards – I think we can all agree it makes a fantastic prize!
2024 Coin Design of the Year
This year, we also asked you to vote for your favourite 2024 UK coin design!
With so many incredible UK coins issued this year, it’s hard to chose just one – but the votes are in and it seems we have a clear winner…
With 23.84% of the votes, the RNLI 50p has been voted as your favourite 2024 coin!
The top 5 also included the D-Day 50p, the Team GB and ParalympicsGB 50p, the 2024 Snowman 50p and the Six Decades of Bond £5!
A big thank you once again to All About Coins for supporting us this year and of course a huge congratulations to our winners!
We’d like to thank each and every one of you for your continued support in 2024 and wish you luck with your Change Checking in 2025!
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2024 Change Checker Awards NOW OPEN!
We’re delighted to announce the 2024 Change Checker Awards are now OPEN!
The Change Checker Awards give collectors the chance to look back at all the fantastic coin issues of the year whilst celebrating the very best coin collectors out there.
We’re looking for the 2024 Change Checker of the Year and the 2024 Junior Change Checker of the year and we need your help!
Watch our video below, or continue reading to find out how to enter…
Change Checker and Junior Change Checker of the Year
*Submissions for 2024 Change Checker and Junior Change Checker of the Year are now closed*
Winners will be announced on 4th December 2024.
UK Coin Design of the Year
You’ve also been voting for the UK Coin Design of the Year, which will also be revealed on 4th December.
Get your hands on the 2024 Annual Set!
Could this Bee a new error £1 coin?
2.975 million King Charles III Bee £1 coins entered circulation in August 2024. Since then, the race has been on to track down these new coins creating a buzz in the collecting world!
Many collectors have already been lucky enough to come across the Bee £1, but perhaps none so lucky as Diane Bath, who spotted a rare error on one of the coins…
The error coin causing a buzz
Diane runs The Post Office in Broughton-in-Furness, Cumbria, where she found a King Charles III Bee £1 struck in entirely one colour!
The image below shows the single metal coin, without the silver-coloured inner piece seen on standard United Kingdom £1 coins:
£1 coins are struck from a nickel-brass outer ring and an inner piece made from a nickel-plated brass alloy. It’s possible that this error coin was created due to the inner section not being punched out of the nickel-brass before the coin was struck. For confirmation of this, we’d suggest sending the error coin to The Royal Mint for verification.
Diane, a postmistress of over 20 years, told the press: “I am absolutely over the moon. Obviously we handle cash all the time and it’s the most exciting find I’ve ever had in over two decades.”
Worth a pretty penny
The coin was auctioned on 18th October by Ryedale Auctioneers, and whilst it had an estimated value of £500-£800, it actually sold for £1,250!
Image Credit: Ryedale Auctioneers
A similar error occurred when the first 12-sided £1 coins were released back in 2017, although only a small handful of these error coins were ever found. Reportedly, one such error coin sold for over £2,000 at auction!
Ultimately, the selling price of a rare error item like this at auction depends on how much a collector is willing to pay to get their hands on it. So remember, if you’re looking to secure an error coin on the secondary market, always do your research and be aware of fakes before you buy.
Have you spotted any errors on the new King Charles III coinage? Let us know in the comments below!
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