“The 20p coins that are worth the most are ‘mule’ ones which have been minted with inaccuracies on them by mistake,” the paper adds. Unlike 50p and 10p coins, the 20p design “has remained almost the same since it was first minted back in 1982, making only a handful of them actually valuable to a collector”, reports The Sun. The rarest of the lot is the 10p featuring an image of Stonehenge on the reverse, which gets the highest score possible on Change Checker’s Scarcity Index. However, “another 2.6 million coins were released in October, with the hope that more people would be encouraged to start collecting them”, Which? adds. When the collection was launched in March 2018, only 2.6 million coins were released into circulation, making them extremely hard to find. The rarest 10ps are all from the A-Z of Great Britain collection, says the Change Checker blog, information and swapping site. “Sadly, you won't be retiring on the money you make from finding one - with recent examples sold on eBay going for no more than £13.50 - but that's still an awful lot more than 5p,” the Mirror adds. That is “the only year tens of millions weren’t produced, with none released for general circulation and fewer than 60,000 made for annual sets”, the paper says. Since then, well over a billion coins have been minted, but according to the Daily Mirror, 5p coins from 1993 are the ones to keep. The current incarnation of the humble 5p was introduced in 1990 and was much smaller than the previous version. In 2016, the BBC reported that a silver 2p found in a Poppy Appeal collection tin had sold for £1,350. There are also a handful of silver 2p pieces in circulation that could fetch up to 67,500 times their face value. These coins’ existence is down to a printing error, “when a nickel-plated blank (usually reserved for 10ps) was stuck in the 2p dies”, according to the newspaper. In 1983, a very small number of 2p coins were printed with the words “NEW PENCE” rather than just “PENCE”, in an error by the Royal Mint, which had dropped the former format two years earlier. So “if you find a 1992 1p, and can’t pick it up with a magnet, you’re on to a winner”, adds the Mirror. “As a result of their steel core, copper-plated steel 1p coins are magnetic,” says the Royal Mint Museum site. The bronze 1p pieces are also keenly collected but look very similar to the copper-plated steel ones. “That’s the fewest number of any penny type ever struck - and far lower than the highly sought-after Kew Gardens 50p,” reports the Daily Mirror. Prior to the switch, 78,421 were made of bronze. However, in 1992, “with metal prices rising on world markets, the composition of 1p coins was changed from bronze to copper-plated steel”, says the Royal Mint Museum website. With 1.5 billion pennies struck by the Royal Mint in the first year alone of decimalisation, back in 1971, finding any value in your coppers might seem unlikely. Here is The Week’s guide to the rarest coins of each denomination. “This sovereign is significant not only because of its rarity, but because it sits at the heart of an international story and has been treasured by collectors in both the UK and US.” “The Edward VIII sovereign is part of numismatic legend – belonging to a series of coins that were never meant to exist,” said Royal Mint Collector Services’ Matt Curtis. The coin, one of only six produced, commemorates the ascension to the throne of the controversial king, who later abdicated to marry American divorcee Wallis Simpson.Įxperts say the coin was not circulated to the public after the royal’s abdication, and its existence was hidden from the public for decades afterwards. Could your rare 50p coin be worth 1,000 times its face value?.How do you spot a rare £2 coin and how much is it worth?.Rare £1 coins: how to find the most valuable ones.
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