Some weird and wonderful statistics created from the 50p's
that I have collected. This page has no 'right hand pane' unlike the rest of my
website to allow me to fit in all the graphs that I want to show here!
Select the mini-graphs to jump down to the one that you want to look at
in more detail. :: Back to 50 pence index page Out of the 500 contributors, I split them
up into seven catagories: Friends, Family, BBC colleagues (that I already
knew), BBC colleagues (that I didn't know until they decided to contribute),
people off of the internet (i.e. complete strangers, and the bulk of the
contributions), animals (for all those cats, dogs & hampsters), and
a very dubious catagory - others. Contributing by me being given a physical fifty
pence piece was obviously the most common way of collecting the money,
but PayPal comes a close second as most of the contributions from people
around the world were done that way. Breakdown
of year of physical 50 pence pieces
In cases where the money was not given to me
in physical 50 pence form, (eg. two 20p's and one 10p), I've taken the
liberty of changing it myself into a 50 pence piece. Out of the 96 50p's
that I have in my jar at home, this is how they breakdown into the year
that they were made. From this, it would seem that the majority
of 50p pieces in circulation are from 1997, with just a few from the remaining
years. 
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Da Pod (Statistics)
Simple graph showing the total amount of money collected over time
Location
of contributors
If I'm entirely honest with myself on this one, there
is no need at all for this to be a pie chart, but I just really wanted to
have a pie chart as I don't think I've made once since school, and they
just look quite cool.
Types
of 50p donated
Well I'm starting to discover as well that there are some 'rare' 50p coins in circulation.
I've also got a Isle of Man (1997) 50p which is quite unique I think, and also a 1998 special NHS 50p:
Contributor
Paul (#62) has pointed me in the direction
of the Royal
Mint website which has a breakdown of the number of coins that were
produced in the UK each year.