Check your change - the rare 50p coins sold for £476 on eBay (2024)

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The Kew Gardens is known as the UK's rarest circulation 50p, with a mintage of just 210,000 and the next rarest commemorative 50p is the 2017 Sir Isaac Newton, with a mintage of 1,801,500.

How much are rare 50p coins worth? The famous 50p coin, Kew Gardens, sells for a few hundred pounds. Other rare 50p coins go for less impressive numbers, from a couple of pounds up to 20–30 pounds. There's a very rare 50p coin that can sell for thousands of pounds, but you're not likely to come across it.

Many collectors choose to sell through eBay or similar online auction sites operating today. It is definitely a better choice than going through a pawnbroker, but getting a reasonable price for even rare 2 pound coin or even a collectable 50p coin requires a great deal of right timing and even a bit of luck.

The specification was changed for 1997 with the older, larger coins removed from circulation. Today, you are very unlikely to come across an old 50p in your change and if you did you would not be able to spend it in a shop. Since they can be hard to find, these pre-97 50ps are sought after by change collectors.

One person managed to make over £100 by selling a rare 50p coin they come across. The coin in question - the Kew Gardens 50p coin - was released in 2009 to mark 250 years since Kew Gardens opened in 1759.

Which £2 coins are the rarest? The rarest in circulation are considered to be the 2022 Commonwealth Games £2 coins for Northern Ireland and Wales. Just 485,500 and 588,500 of each were minted respectively. They frequently sell on eBay for about £40 and £25.

A sure fire way to know if you've found a keeper is to check the mintage figures for your 50p. Generally speaking, the lower the mintage, the rarer the coin and the harder it will be to find in circulation.

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The 50p, being half a pound, had the same value as the bank note (there used to be 20 shillings to the pound). The larger old 50p coins on this page have been demonetized and cannot be spent, but they can however be exchanged for current coins or paid into UK bank accounts.

The British decimal fifty pence coin (often shortened to 50p in writing and speech) is a denomination of sterling coinage worth 1⁄2 of one pound.

The coin, a 50p with King Charles' portrait on, sold for £2,500 and the coins are the second 50ps to enter circulation bearing Charles' official coin portrait. The first were the memorial 50 pences, which entered circulation in December 2022, marking the transition from the late Queen to the King.

A sure fire way to know if you've found a keeper is to check the mintage figures for your 50p. Generally speaking, the lower the mintage, the rarer the coin and the harder it will be to find in circulation.

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How Much Is the Benjamin Britten 50p Coin Worth Today? As we said, it is always it is difficult to put an exact price on a coin as all coins vary in condition, but we would expect the circulated Benjamin Britten 50p to be worth around £2.20 to £2.60 in today's market excluding any postage costs.

"The 2017 Benjamin Bunny 50p is usually just worth face value unless you have a rare rotation error version." But there's one change that could be worth far more. "The error Benjamin Bunny coin has the Queen's head printed facing the wrong direction.