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Royal Mint rarest coins as 50p sells for £186 on eBay

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We are all being encouraged to check our change for a rare 50p coin after one sold on eBay for more than £250 this week.

You should check your change, your wallets and down the back of your sofa after a 50p piece sold for more than 350 times its face value on eBay this week.

The coin, a Kew Gardens 250th anniversary coin, sold for £186.99 after inspiring a mini-bidding war on the online auction site. Known as one of the Royal Mint's rarest coins, the Kew Gardens anniversary coin was originally released in 2009, with just 200,000 copies entering circulation.The coin features the Chinese Pagoda at the Royal Botanic Gardens on the tails side and a portrait of the Queen., which was designed to mark the 250th anniversary of the gardens in 2009. Only 210,000 coins were ever minted with this design.

The Kew Gardens 50p sells for £156.25 on average, but one seller received over £700 for one when they sold it on eBay.stem predominantly from the 2011 Olympics, with the wrestling, football and judo coins among the most valuable. Only 1.1million of each of these coins were produced.These coins - 1.4 million of which were minted - depict the characters from Beatrix Potter’s novels and celebrate the life of the English writer and these sell for around £5.

 

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