Ebay is a brilliant platform to source and sell on rare coins which are hard to find elsewhere.
Certain coin types sell for many times their face value in the coin collecting community.
One of these rare coins is a particular Beatrix Potter Peter Rabbit 50p produced in 2016.
The 50p, which features a design of a rabbit, is particularly rare because of its unique flaw.
The rabbit in this coin has half of one of its 11 whiskers missing when you look closely.
The description explains the coin is a “Very Rare Peter Rabbit 50p coin with 10.5 whiskers”.
A comment below the listing on eBay explains what is so rare about this particular coin.
“These first day Beatrix potter covers are getting quite hard to get hold of,” reads the comment.
“So if you get the chance to get hold of one you have got to snap it up.
“Do not leave it to long as the price is going to go through the roof sooner but if you are a fan they are worth having.”
Another coin fan wrote: “This is one of the best coins around. Good luck to some one out there.
Last month, a rare 50p coin was selling for £3,000 on eBay.
Ebay is home to a great many rare coin varieties, which are bought and sold on the website every single day.
Certain coins are of particular rarity to collectors, who know the value of these special pieces of the British currency.
A rare 50p coin celebrating the 250th anniversary of Samuel Johnson’s dictionary is an example of this.
The reverse design of this silver 50p coin has the words ‘fifty pence’ written on it in the characteristic style of the dictionary it commemorates.
It has the usual heptagon shape of most 50p coins, but in its rareness it stands out from the rest.
The seller, who goes by the username go666o2012 and has 100 per cent positive feedback, describes the coin simply as a “very rare used coin”.
However the Royal Mint website gives us more information about this particularly special piece of British currency.
“Entries from the dictionary for the words FIFTY and PENCE, with the figure ’50’ above, and the inscription JOHNSON’S DICTIONARY 1755 below,” reads the entry on the website.
