Seven weeks since the last one of these, and it has been the busiest stretch since launch. The catalogue has nearly quadrupled, coin pages now tell you what a coin is worth year by year, and a lot of quiet work has gone into making sure the prices we show are the prices coins actually sold for.
Thirteen thousand new coins
When we wrote in August the catalogue held just under 5,000 British coins. It now holds more than 18,000. Over the last two weeks we added every coin we could document from the Crown Dependencies, the Overseas Territories and Ireland:
- Gibraltar about 2,900 coins
- Isle of Man about 2,600
- Guernsey about 1,300, plus around 940 from Alderney filed under Guernsey
- Jersey about 1,150
- Saint Helena about 270, with Ascension Island (170) and Tristan da Cunha (710) filed alongside
- Falkland Islands about 390
- Ireland about 220, the pounds, shillings and pence and the decimal coins before the euro
- South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands 150, British Antarctic Territory 150 and British Indian Ocean Territory 126
- England, Scotland and Wales now file as their own issuers for the coins that were struck for one nation
Browse has a country picker at the top, search shows a flag and issuer name beside every result, and the header dropdown knows all of them. Start with Gibraltar or the Isle of Man and you will see what we mean.
One honest note: a few hundred of the new coins are still waiting for a picture. They are being added in batches over the next few weeks, so if your favourite Manx crown shows a placeholder today, check back.
What a coin is worth, year by year
Most of the big changes on coin pages come from one idea: a design struck across several years is really several coins. So a coin page now shows a value by year table for every multi-year type, with the mintage for that year and the median sold price for that year, circulated and uncirculated kept apart. The price chart has a year filter. Where a year has too few sales we show the type median and say so rather than inventing a number.
That carries through to your collection. You can now record the year on each coin you own, and it is valued at that year's median when that year has sales. A 2019 A to Z 10p and a 2018 one are no longer the same coin to us, because they are not the same coin.
Underneath, the headline figure on every coin page is now a true median of verified sales, not a trimmed mean, and a coin that last sold over a year ago keeps a price from its five-year history instead of going blank. When a coin has no sold price at all we show a clearly labelled estimate from similar coins, and we never write that estimate into the price record.
Rarity now follows the mintage
Rarity badges are set by the mintage figure alone, with fixed bands: Rare up to 500,000 struck, Scarce up to 2 million, Uncommon up to 10 million, Common above. The 1953 Coronation crown, 5.96 million struck, had been reading as Scarce. It is Uncommon. Only 32 coins in the whole catalogue rate Mythic, and every rarest-first list on the site now really is rarest first. The What makes a coin rare guide was rewritten to describe the score we actually use.
While we were in there we hid 106 catalogue entries that were replicas, fantasy pieces, counterfeits or play money, hid 14 Edward VIII pattern entries whose sales turned out to be George VI coins and modern retro strikes, corrected another 120 headline mintages against the Royal Mint's own figures, and stopped 1,763 collector strikes claiming to be circulating coins.
A cleaner price record
There are now more than 61,000 verified sales behind the site. Every new sale is checked against the coin it claims to be before it counts, and that checking got a lot sharper this month:
- A graded five pound banknote is not a gold five pound coin. Nearly 300 of them had been sitting on the gold rows, and they are gone.
- A one ounce Coronation Britannia is not a Coronation sovereign, however the auction house filed it. A listing whose ounce size is not the coin's is treated as a different coin.
- When a slab in the listing says MS63 or PF70 we now take that grade, not the one the seller typed. A £9,680 1887 five pound piece graded MS63 had been pulling down the Fine median.
- Melt value checks now run against the right metal. Platinum and palladium coins, nearly 400 of them, were being compared to nothing at all, and gold plated copper patterns were being compared to the gold price. Both are fixed, and the metal filter on Browse now offers platinum and palladium.
Bullion in your collection
You can now add bars, rounds and scrap alongside your coins. Holdings are valued hourly at spot, the collection chart stacks bullion on top of coins, and precious metal coins with no market price take their melt value as a floor rather than showing nothing. Bullion appears in the insurance PDF, the CSV and spreadsheet exports, and the leaderboard. The free plan holds three bullion items.
For anyone weighing up a sale, the Scrap Gold Calculator shows the melt value of 9ct, 18ct and 22ct gold at today's price and what a dealer would typically pay for it.
A coin checklist you can tick
New: the UK Coin Checklist. Tick the 50p, £1, £2 and A to Z 10p designs you have, watch the running value, and save the lot as a collection. You can tick before you have an account, and your ticks come with you when you sign up.
Pro, and what changed in September
MyCoinage became a freemium site in September. The free plan tracks 25 coins with every price and guide open. Pro, from £1.99 a month or £19.99 a year with a seven-day trial, lifts the cap and adds the tools below. Everyone who joined before September keeps Pro for life at no cost, as promised.
Pro gained three things this autumn:
- Price alerts on the spot price of gold, silver, platinum and palladium, checked hourly.
- A Tax view of your gains by UK tax year, with legal tender coins split out as CGT exempt and a CSV your accountant can open.
- The insurance PDF now includes a photographic record built from your own coin photos, and the weekly digest email is a Pro option.
Everything on the pricing page is built from the real gates, so what it says Free includes is what Free includes.
New guides, tools and pages
- UK coins hub: every denomination with its specification, how many we track, a typical sold value and links to the guides.
- Star Wars 50p values, the eight 2023 and 2024 coins priced from sold listings.
- Blue Peter 50p, Royal Mint coin hunt covering the A to Z 10p hunt and the 2026 Treasure Hunt, Krugerrand value in the UK with the live spot price, and UK coin sizes and weights.
- Is the Bee £1 valuable? and Rare banknote serial numbers.
- Error coins: you can now mark a coin in your collection as an error, note the type, filter on it, and it shows in your exports and insurance PDF.
- Pictures and videos have been added across the guides and, for the first time, to series, mintage, monarch, designer and error pages.
- Every Monday the blog now carries a weekly auction roundup of the week's notable UK sales, and the newsletter sends a monthly recap with a one-click unsubscribe.
Smaller things you may notice
- Search learned the misspellings and synonyms people actually type, and shows the latest price beside each coin in the dropdown.
- Coin pages have a short About card, visible FAQs, the coin's mintage rank and, where we have researched them, varieties and collecting notes with their sources.
- A new empty collection offers a quick start: paste a list of what you own, or tick a year's coins.
- Tap "I have this" on a guide or mintage table and the coin follows you through sign-up.
- Sell Your Coins now asks for a free account and takes an optional asking price, and sellers get sold-price links for the coins they submit.
- The invite card on your dashboard shows your referral link.
- The homepage, coin pages and the collection toolbar were all tidied for phones.
As ever, if a figure on the site looks wrong to you, say so on the Contact page. Several of the fixes above started as a message from one of you.