Five Pounds and Crowns | Royal Mint Coins (2024)

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Are 5 pound coins worth anything? ›

A normal base metal Crown may fetch £10 or more if particularly desirable. The gold and silver commemorative £5 coins will often be worth far more on metal value alone, and their more limited mintage figures may result in an even high price.

Out of the Brilliant Uncirculated £5 coins sold in individual The Royal Mint Packs, the 2014 Queen Anne £5 is the rarest. This coin has a mintage of just 12,181 and was struck to mark the 300th anniversary since the death of Queen Anne.

However, please note that, whilst the coins are legal tender, banks are not obliged to accept the coins (please refer to guidelines on legal tender status).

Five pound coins are legal tender but are intended as souvenirs and are rarely seen in circulation. The coins are sold by the Royal Mint at face value and also, with presentation folders, at a premium to that face value. The 2010 coins, with such folders, were sold for £9.95 each.

Made with almost 4kg of gold and more than 6,426 diamonds, a new coin has been unveiled in honour of the late Queen - and may be among the most valuable of all time. The creator of the luxury object called The Crown - the East India Company - has valued it at around $23m (£18.47m).

A year later, the launch of a new commemorative coin honoring the queen tested the limits of how much people are willing to spend by carrying a price tag above $20 million. As Fortune reported last fall, the “one-of-a-kind” coin is valued at about $23 million and is “a little wider” than an NBA basketball.

1933 Double Eagle

And here is the world's most expensive coin of all time: the 1933 Double Eagle, worth up to $18.9 million. It sold for this price at auction in 2021, per Smithsonian Magazine.

What is the Queen Mother 5 pound coin 2000? ›

In her widowhood she was affectionately known as the Queen Mother. Her hundredth birthday was celebrated by The Royal Mint in 2000 with a range of Five Pound coins, including this silver proof example. Its reverse features a tiara-wearing left-facing portrait of Elizabeth by sculptor Ian Rank-Broadley.

The current ask purchase price for a one ounce American Gold Eagle is: 2449.90 and the current Monex bid selling price for one ounce Gold Eagle coin is: 2365.70. For full transaction details and transactional service such as price limit orders, feel free to consult with your Monex account representative.

Modern union coins

The $100 denomination has been produced by the US Mint since 1997 in the form of the American Platinum Eagle bullion coin. The bullion American Liberty union of 2015, 2019, and 2021 as well as the proof American Liberty 225th Anniversary union of 2017 were struck in 24 karat gold.

The eagle was a United States $10 gold coin issued by the United States Mint from 1795 to 1933.

Broadly speaking the higher the score, the more valuable a coin is likely to be. So to take the example of the highest scoring coin – the Edinburgh City £1 – it is already achieving prices of between £10.00 and £15.00 on eBay. However, things can very quickly go mad.

Mintage for the 5 pound design struck dated 2004 is recorded as 1,205,594 coins. An Uncirculated condition Elizabeth II 2004 £5 Entente Cordiale is worth about £6.50.

1998 £5 - Prince Charles 50th Birthday - £7.95 : Weighton Coin Wonders, Gold & Silver Coin Specialists.

There were 2 5 pound variations struck dated 2002. Mintage figures are shown where available. An Uncirculated condition Elizabeth II 2002 £5 Golden Jubilee is worth about £6.