Saturday, November 25, 2023
#10003 ✅ Analysis
How many 2p coins do you have in your pocket, your purse or even your house? It may not be many, given that cash is in retreat, plus coppers are increasingly irrelevant as inflation bites. I counted my stash and discovered I have 32. I used to have 650 more but in 2018 I bagged them up and took them to the bank, earning £13 for my trouble. What I wondered was what years my remaining 2p coins were minted in and how many years are missing.
1971 1980 1990 1991 1993 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2003 2004 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2013 2015
I have only eight absences from 1990 to 2015, but it looks like almost all of the 1970s and 1980s are missing. However it turns out no 2ps were minted in 1972, 1973 or 1974, nor 1982, 1983 or 1984, so it's not quite as bad as it looks. Also no 2ps have been minted since 2017, apart from a one-off burst in 2021, so the actual years I'm missing are...
1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1981 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1992 1994 1995 2002 2005 2012 2014 2016 2017 2021
I appear to own exactly half of the possible tup'penny collection. I fear my chances of acquiring the rest are quite low.
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