This rare £2 could be in your change and it is worth over £120
Coins aren't something we think about everyday, and nowadays less of us are using it to pay for our shopping. But you may want to have a little shuffle through any change you have lying around as a £2 coin with an unusual design is being collected for more than £120.
The Coin Collector UK, as they are known on TikTok, has shared that some versions of the 2016 Shakespeare's tragedies coin has become of particular interest to collectors because of one mistake. The coin usually has the image of a skull with a rose on the tails side of the coin.
Explaining further, he advised his followers to carefully check the outer edge of the coin for its inscription, reports the Mirror. He said: “£123 if you find this Shakespeare £2 coin.
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“So what you want to be checking for on your Shakespeare’s tragedies coin is the edge inscription.” This is because when the coins were created, some of them were mistakenly minted with the wrong inscription. The phrase on the rim is meant to say "what a piece of work is a man".
However, the rare coins have the inscription "for king and country". The coin expert continued: "It should say around the edge, ‘what a piece of work is a man’, like this one.
"However, in 2016 when these were minted, the Royal Mint actually messed up and ended up producing some with the edge inscription from the army centenary coin, which you can see here. The error coin says around the edge, ‘for king and country.’"
He does say that it is difficult to know what exact value of a coin would be, but some coins have been sold online recently for as much as £213. He added: "Like with most error coins this is quite hard to value as they don't come up for sale too often.
"One however, did sell a few months ago at auction that went for £123. Others have sold on eBay for the £30 mark and another one also sold for £65. They are definitely one worth looking out for in your change. If yours says ‘for king and country’ on the edge, then you found the rear error version.
"This one, which was the circulating version with the correct inscription, unfortunately is only worth £2 as it has a mintage of around five million."
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