Brits have been urged to watch out for a rare coin that could be worth considerably more than its face value. This particular 50p piece might fetch up to £2,000. That said, it must display a certain ...

A rare Royal Mint 50p coin has sold for more than 300 times its face value at an online auction, and there are thousands more out there that could be worth a small fortune. The Blue Peter coin, made ...

It is one of the Royal Mint’s rarest and most valuable coins, with just 210,000 copies entering circulation when it was released in 2009.

A version of the 50p coin fetched £4,000 on eBay, 8,000 times its face value, when it sold last year, inspiring a mini bidding war which saw 28 bids placed. Describing the coin, the Royal Mint said: ...