Despre o monedă mai rară de 50 de peni şi valoarea ei

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A relatively rare Kew Gardens themed 50p coin could now be worth more than 200 times its face value as buyers look to add the piece to their collection.

The coin was produced five years ago with a run of 210,000 to mark the 250th anniversary of the Royal Botanic Gardens.

Royal Mint says around one in 300 people are likely to have the coin, but it could now disappear at speed after it stated the coin is the rarest in general circulation.

Rare coin: Check your pockets and piggy banks - do you own one of these Kew themed 50p coins?

On online marketplace eBay, there are a number of sales currently on for the 50p coin, with some sellers asking for £120, including this example from the London Coin Company who say they have six in stock.

A number of sellers have a high volume of bidders who are looking to snap up the coin starting at a far lower cost.

All other 50p coins have had a far higher mintage. For example, the Royal Shield of Arms issued in 2008 has 22.7million while a WWF celebration 50p coin had 3.4million. This makes the Kew Gardens coin rare in comparison.

You can check out the mintage figures on the Royal Mint website.

Coin fever: One seller has six available at £119.95 per coin

A spokeswoman at the Royal Mint said that while the face value of the coin is 50 pence, ‘what it is worth to collectors is another matter’.

On the Royal Mint website, it describes the coin as showing the pagoda encircled by a vine and accompanied by the dates ‘1759 and '2009’, with the word ‘Kew’ at the base of the pagoda and was designed by Christopher Le Brun.

Shane Bissett, director of commemorative coin at the Royal Mint, said: ‘Whilst we're urging everyone to check their change to see whether they could have one of these exceptional coins in their pockets, we also want to encourage the nation to look more closely at all of the coins we use every day.

‘They really are miniature works of art worth looking out for, admiring and collecting - and keeping hold of them is a great way for us to build our own private art galleries. Now that people know just how rare this particular coin is we expect them to disappear from circulation fast.’

Ebay: Dozens of the 50p coins are emerging on the online marketplace as eager collectors look to snap them up

Other commemoratives, such as those issued for the Olympics, are unlikely to ever become such valuable collectors’ items due to the high volume of coins produced.

A few years ago This is Money urged the public to check their 20p coins. A batch of up to 100,000 20p pieces were shipped from the Royal Mint without the 2009 date stamp and people were bidding hundreds of pounds for them on eBay.

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