Petition to the Royal Mint

Not sure if this has been posted before, but this is a petition started by "Change Checker" to get the Royal Mint to keep UK £5 as base metal, and to sell them for £5.
https://www.change.org/p/the-royal-mint-bring-back-the-uk-face-value-5-coin

Quote from the page:
£5 coins are the UK's flagship coin. But since 2012, the Royal Mint has stopped offering them at face value. Instead you have to pay £13 for a new £5 coin.
We believe that £5 coins should be available to the general public at face value via banks, post offices and coin distributors and not just from the Royal Mint for £13.
Please sign our petition to bring back the £5 coin for £5.

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We don't have any circulating £5 coins, but places like Jersey and Guernsey have £5 coins that can be bought for £5 from The Royal Mint or The Westminster Collection for example. But the UK £5 coins can only be bought packaged for £13.

Good move! Signed the petition.

Germany is making commemorative silver coins at face value since decades. France joined the move as well. That's stupid from UK to turn back in mainland, moreover in base metal coinage... Agreed!

Just realised I forgot to put this in the first post.

I think it's only open to the UK, but The Westminster Collection has a draw going, they have 1000 of the 2016 90th Birthday £5 coins available for only £5.

http://www.westminstercollection.com/landing-pages/uk-five-pound-coin-ballot.aspx

Probably reducing my chances of getting one, but I'm hoping the karma will return!

I'm not bothered about the new £5 coins so your chances are one better :)

i only ever ever get the queens jubilee issues :)

I don't have any time for the stuff peddled by the Westminster Collection but I have signed the petition.

I doubt if I would start again now but I did collect all the £5 BUNC issues until 2012 when they started to get too expensive and they produced so many as to reduce their appeal.