Spare 20 pence, please

I mean, spare a 20 pence piece. The Royal Mint, as you probably know, produced 20p pieces without a date on them and are recalling the blanks for a £50 reward for each one. So, we've all been scrabbling through new change for the reward. Well, there seem to be bigger rewards for sellers are offering these single 20p blanks for thousands of pounds on EBay!

Worse, EBay sellers have been offering ordinary 20p pieces for sale and they're being bought for hundreds of pounds! Each seller offers a disclaimer - "these are dated 20p's" - but such is the media hype the gullible are taken in. Often on EBay a poor drawing is signed by Picasso - no, not that Picasso - the one who spells his name Piccaso - and there are buyers...

It's a mad world my masters! 20p won't buy you anything but the coin could line your nest for an age!