Some are retailing online for between £5 and £15, although some sellers are cheekily trying to sell them for a few hundred. These charming Beatrix Potter coins were released only to a limited number of attractions and National Trust properties and the Royal Mint has not revealed precisely how many it has minted. At their peak demand they were selling online for as much as £120. That means they can sell for £30-£50 if you can find a collector. The 50 pence coin stamped with the Kew Gardens Pagoda is relatively rare, with just 210,000 minted compared to a standard minting of around 5 million. The valuable 50ps Olympic Swimmer 50pĪs mentioned by Philip, the original Olympic aquatic coin with the wavy lines across the swimmer’s face has become very collectible as only 600 were released before the design was changed.Ħ00 is a tiny, tiny amount in t`he world of coin collecting and so these coins are changing hands for upwards of £800. These can now sell online for around £4, sometimes more if in particularly good condition.įind out more on the most valuable £2 coins and check the prices for rare £2 coins on ebay. These were released in 2012 to commemorate the 200th birthday of the famous author, with the reverse of the coin featuring the titles of his better known books. They sell online for between £5 and £7, typically. The Royal Mint released a commemorative 50p in 2005 on the 400th anniversary of the Gunpowder plot but some of those had a slightly embarrassing typo and read ‘Pemember, pemember the Fifth of November’. They can sell online for anything between £15 and £25. Is your £2 coin worth a fortune? Commonwealth £2Ī special coin minted to commemorate the Northern Ireland 2002 Commonwealth Games is one of the rarest £2 out there, as fewer than 500,000 were minted. Think you may have one in your wallet? Here are the most valuable ones right now - according to the experts. Remember that 20p coin without the date on that was selling for hundreds of pounds? Or the 2p coin that is still selling for a small fortune?Įvery now and again there’s a media storm that sees Brits scrambling for their wallets to sort through their change and search out the coins that are worth far more than the value stamped on them. Is there a fortune in your spare change, or hiding down the back of the sofa?
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