A new £20 coin for £20 available at Royal Mint – good for hitting card spend targets

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• John says:

  30 Sep30 September 07:09

  I’m quite skeptical of this given that the silver content is worth about £7, but Canadian and American $20 coins have only $7 of silver and seem to sell for $30 when they have become suitably rare.

• Tom H says:

  30 Sep30 September 07:13

  I managed to pay for mine with Amex by changing the country again as with the 50p offer earlier in the year, so it is possible.

• Rich says:

  30 Sep30 September 07:32

  I tried depositing some of the 2012 countdown £5 coins into my bank account but was told by 2 separate banks that I couldn’t do so.

  Guidelines from royal mint (below) suggest it’s pretty much hit or miss.

  “Most people would not wish to exchange a crown piece, but in recognition of the fact that some people may wish to do so, some banks will allow crowns to be deposited into bank accounts. However, please note that whilst the coins are legal tender, banks are not obliged to accept the coins. Policies on accepting crowns do vary, therefore it is advisable to check with your bank in advance.”

• Andrew says:

  30 Sep30 September 07:50

  I bought three of these on Saturday. It let me pay with an Amex without any messing about with changing countries (I’m from the UK)

  • Rob says:

    30 Sep30 September 08:10

    Interesting. Perhaps the site has changed to let Amex go through?

• David Sigley says:

  30 Sep30 September 09:02

  I remember having loads of hassle with the £5 Olympic-themed coins from the Royal Mint. The banks I tried to deposit them with wouldn’t take them. The easiest way I could find to use them was for buying goods at the Post Office which seems to work okay an I think the Royal Mint website says something to this effect.

  • pazza2000 says:

    30 Sep30 September 19:24

    I sure had a nightmare with these also, which has wholly put me off doing anything similar again.
    No post office would except the £5 coin, nor would any of local bank branches at first, took a 6th attempt.

• dmito says:

  30 Sep30 September 10:08

  I can’t get AMEX to stay with a UK delivery. it shows amex when I select usa delivery. I get to billing and see amex and enter details and switch billing to UK. I then click on delivery and change to UK. when I go back to payment, amex is no longer an option. any help please???

• jane says:

  30 Sep30 September 15:17

  I would assume that you can pay them into bank accounts at the post office. The post office usually complains when I want to change up my coins following the annual pre-holiday emptying of my giant whisky bottle but when I try to pay them into my Smile account they are fine with it for some reason.

• Trevor says:

  1 Oct1 October 14:35

  Given the fiasco with the last order of Olympic coins:

  1. Order being partially cancelled
  2. Such a long delay in delivery that I had moved and battled to get them at all
  3. Charges only going through at order completion when I’d already met my spend target
  4. Charges being so little in the first place and then even less after partial cancellation by Royal Mint that the entire process was pointless

  … along with banks/shops not necessarily even accepting these, it’s way more effort than it’s worth and I’ll therefore give it a very wide berth! There are other ways to manufacture spend in much greater quantities and with much more ease.

  • Simon says:

    2 Oct2 October 17:14

    I made 4 orders for those Olympic coins using 3v cards (before I knew about NS&I), luckily for me 3v declined 3 of the orders.

    What a hassle they were to open and they came in so much packaging, I recycled what I could of it …. all for a few points, a far cry from the person who earned 4 million AAdvantage points from buying dollar coins!

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