THE UK's most-wanted rare coin has sold for 292 times its face value after an intense bidding war on eBay. The collectable 50p coin is stamped with a Kew Gardens design and eventually went for £146 online. The Royal Mint website says: "Nothing gets people excited quite like this original 2009 design." There are hundreds of millions of 50p coins in circulation, so the odds of you coming across one of these are slim - but not impossible. Another extremely rare 50p coin was up for sale for a staggering 10,000 times its face value.

Source: The Times April 12, 2025 21:02 UTC