eBay: Guy Fawkes £2 coin with ‘very rare minting error’ selling at £399 – do YOU have one?

eBay seller serasweetie has listed the Guy Fawkes £2 coin at auction, with a starting bid of an eye-watering £399. The seller has 100 per cent positive feedback from 570 feedback ratings. Writing about the coin on the listing, the seller wrote: “Very rare £2 coin with minting error on ‘NOVEMBER’ mint has issued NOVEMBEP […]

eBay: ‘Rare’ £1 coin with minting defects selling for £500 – YOUR coin could have them too

eBay is the world’s biggest online auction site, attracting thousands and thousands of buyers and sellers. Amongst those are keen coin collectors, who are willing to splash out for seemingly small change. One coin hoping to attract one of these collectors is a “rare” £1 coin with a significant minting error. The coin was listed […]

eBay: 50p sold for £414 – rare minting error coin has sold for a whopping sum

A rare 50p coin has sold on eBay for a whopping sum of money on February 17. The coin, which has a misprint, is dated from the 1980s. Minting errors such as this happen when there is a mistake during the printing process. This error is known as a misstrike, when the coin is not […]

eBay: Rare £2 coin selling for £7000 thanks to unusual minting error – can YOU see it?

Selling coins on eBay is one way to make a pretty penny, and some coins can sell for thousands. A £2 coin with a rare minting error has been listed by seller ‘charlotte6923’, who is hoping to make £7000 for her discovery. She is offering the coin on a Buy it now basis for £7000 […]

eBay: Rare £2 coin with minting error selling for a fortune – can YOU spot the mistakes?

A £2 coin with two minting errors is selling on eBay for the princely sum of £175. The seller, kaseon1967, has listed the coin on a Buy it now basis. Describing the coin, the seller wrote: “St . Paul’s cathedral in London during the blitz , with headlights shining into the sky . “Issued in […]

eBay: Rare 50p coin with unusual minting error selling for £3500 – could YOU have one?

Listen on eBay by seller ‘lukvalentin4’, the coin is a Kew Gardens 50p. Only 210,000 of these were issued in 2009, all featuring the iconic Kew Gardens Pagoda. Usually, more than five million 50p coins are struck in a new design, so the Kew one is very rare. That is not the only thing that […]

eBay: Rare one pound coin with minting error selling for £6900 – can YOU spot it?

The eBay seller is offering the unusual coin on a Buy It Now basis. Writing about the coin, the seller ‘take-a-peek’ said: “*RARE* 2016 Dated – 2017 New Shape 12 Sided £1 One Pound Coin Hunt Rare Uncirculated. “This 2016 coin is rare and very collectable as these were the first produced and we are […]

Rare £2 coin: Guy Fawkes coins with ‘minting error’ could be worth HUNDREDS on eBay

A rare 2005 Gunpowder Plot £2 is sought after because of what appears to be mistake on the coin. The collector’s coin seems to have a spelling error around the outside, although Royal Mint claims this is not actually a printing mistake. One of these coins is currently for sale on eBay for £500. The […]

eBay: Rare new one pound coin with minting error selling EYE-WATERING amount

A new £1 coin with a minting error described as “very rare” by the seller has been listed on eBay. With a week left to go on the listing, there are 12 people watching it and an average of one view an hour. The seller has shared four images of the coin which show exactly […]

eBay: Rare two pound coin with minting error selling for THOUSANDS – do you have one?

The £2 coin is described by the seller as a Charles Dickens 2012 edition on their eBay post. Its rarity comes from an unusual minting error on the side. The seller explains: “Very rare Charles Dickens 2012 two pound coin with two ii in will on the edge it reads wiil when it should say […]