Commemorative £5 coin launched to mark Prince George’s first birthday

Legitimate Royal or not, there is no doubt that the child would be 'minted', with or without this coin. Not sure what we are actually celebrating in all this. Royals have sex too? There's a revelation. Let's all applaud the marginally least odious members of a privileged family which perpetuates unwarranted wealth and status. One for the idiots at £80, for sure; attractive as an investment at around £10, perhaps.

Unclegrange, while I would agree that a current coin should sell for no more than its face value, you are wildly off-beam in the rest of your statement. Your grasp of English history is shockingly deficient. Richard I died in 1199. Added to that, although many would argue that we did have a James III (although he was never crowned), we have never had a King James IV. If you mean James VI of Scotland, who became James I of England in 1603, his father was Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, not anyone by the name of Richard. James I and VI was not illegally put on the throne as Elizabeth I had had no children and he was her closest living male relative. Returning to Richards, just in case you accidentally types a wrong number, Richard II was not succeeded by anyone called James. He was deposed and succeeded by his cousin Henry Bolingbroke, who became Henry IV. Richard III was also not succeeded by anyone named James either. He was succeeded by Henry Tudor, who became Henry VII. All of these were members of or descended from the house of Plantagenet. Perhaps you are thinking of the 'Glorious Revolution' of 1688, when James II was deposed and replaced by his sister Mary who became Mary II and her husband William, Prince of Orange became William III at the same time. That didn't make Mary II illegal, and neither did it make her sister Anne, who succeeded her illegal. You could question the legality of George I's kingship, given the rival competing claim of the legitimate James III, but as George was also descended from the house of Plantagenet (albeit distantly) and was made king by act of parliament, most people would consider it perfectly legal. Queen Elizabeth II in a direct descendant of George I. I don't know where you get your information from but perhaps it is best not to air your views after drinking too much. Right history lesson over. I like the coin and if it was a fiver (or even thirteen pounds) would certainly buy it, but not at that price.

Basically it is a rip-off. £5 coins should be worth £5. In any event, seeing as how Queen Elizabeth has no right to be on the throne of England following the break-up of the true line of monarchy when James IV (an illegimate son of Richard I) was put on the throne illegally.