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Check Your Pockets: These 50p Coins Are Worth Shitloads Now

Check Your Pockets: These 50p Coins Are Worth Shitloads Now

Some of the designs are going for £3,000.

Mel Ramsay

Mel Ramsay

Smash open your piggy banks, check down the sofa and for God's sake look in your 'shit drawer' because these 50p coins are worth some serious cash.

As someone who rarely carries cash (I'd rather not know how much of my wages I've spent, thank you very much), I know for a fact that I'm not going to have any of these - bugger! But there's a good chance that a large percentage of those of you reading this now are in possession of these coins. I'm jealous.

So what are you waiting for? Check EVERYWHERE for these five coins because one is worth up to £3,000. And wouldn't that be a nice little cash injection just before Christmas?

London 2012 Olympics 50p

Remember when London held the Olympics? You couldn't move for memorabilia with LONDON 2012 splashed all over it. As soon as it was over, it was all being sold for less than a quid down at Home Bargains and B&M. You want a set of coasters that are completely irrelevant? LOOK NO FURTHER.

Well, for those of you who collected Olympics stuff - you're the ones who are laughing now. This particular coin (of which 600 were only ever made) is fetching up to £3,000 on eBay. Think you've got it, you probably haven't, as there's only 600 of these made, with the water over the aquatic swimmer's face. Yep, you've checked again. You don't have it, do you?

The 'Offside Rule' 50p

Annoyingly, I've seen this coin before. Many times. I remember studying it aggressively when I was pissed. If I'd have kept it, I'd been quids in as they're currently going for a tenner. Ey, don't look down your nose though. That's still 20 times its original value.

WWF 50p

This cool coin was released in 2011 and, understandably, is very popular among collectors. Coin checker spoke to Metro, stating: "One coin which has seemed to unite favourable public opinion is the WWF 50p issued in 2011.

"The design by Matthew Dent features 50 individual icons which represent the various facets of the WWF with the famous panda at the heart of it."

They're going for over £200 at the moment.

Kew Gardens 50p

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of London's Kew Gardens, in the borough of Richmond Upon Thames, the Royal Mint released 210,000 of these 50p coins. They're believed to be worth £50. However, the Sun reports that there are several on eBay going for more than that.

The EC Commemorative 50p

109,000 of these were made the commemorate the British presidency of the council of Europe. Yeah. I have no idea what that means either. But they're worth £20 a pop so all good.


Credit: Royal Mint

So there you have it. A nice little earner for doing absolutely balls all. Not bad.

Featured image credit: Royal Mint

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