Rare Two Pound Coins
Cardiff City (2011, Wales). Ranked second rarest, like the Edinburgh coin, Cardiff £1 coins in perfect condition can sell for up to £30, but most sell for around £5. The £2 coin was the first bi-metallic coin issued in the UK since tin farthings with a copper plug in 1692. There are 479million £2 coins in circulation – although a good few are stashed away – as 31% of adults in the Uk who save money in a coin jar or piggy bank save £2 coins. Three new commemorative designs were released in 2018. For a two pound coin! While the coin has not yet been taken to the coin auction – which we can only presume is an incredibly fun place that looks like Scrooge McDuck’s vault – experts say the coin’s odd look is similar to one found in another super-rare coin, a silver 2p, that was found earlier this year and was estimated to be worth £. Just 485,500 such coins entered circulation, topping the list of the most sought-after £2 coins. These coins can fetch upwards of £40 at auction, with one recently selling for £44 on eBay. The rarest of these are the 2-pound coins minted in 2002 that celebrate the 2002 Commonwealth Games and bear the flag of Northern Island. Only 485,500 of these coins were ever minted. This coin was one of four different 2-pound coins issued in 2002, celebrating the XVII Commonwealth Games.
by Tony Clayton
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Commonwealth Games 1986 | Bank of England Tercentenary 1994 |
Bill of Rights reverse used in 1989, issued in England | Claim of Right reverse used in 1989, issued in Scotland |
Peace Issue 1995 | United Nations Issue 1995 |
1996 European Football Championships issue | Standard Bimetallic Circulation issue, 1997 - 2015 |
Rugby World Cup reverse 1999 | Marconi commemoration 2001 |
Commonwealth Games, 2002 | Commonwealth Games, 2002 |
Commonwealth Games, 2002 | Commonwealth Games, 2002 |
Normal 2002 issue, reverse | DNA commemoration 2003, reverse |
Trevithick commemoration 2004, reverse | Gunpowder Plot Commemoration 2005 |
WW2 Commemoration 2005 |
Brunel Type 1 2006, proof, reverse | Brunel Type 2 2006, proof, reverse |
Abolishment of the Slave Trade, 2007, proof |
Tercentenary of the Act of Union of England and Scotland, 2007, proof |
Centenary of the 1908 London Olympics, 2008 | Handover of the Olympic Flag, 2008 |
Charles Darwin Bicentenary, 2009 |
250th Anniversary of the Birth of Robert Burns, 2009 |
150th Anniversary of Nursing, 2010 |
The Mary Rose, 2011 |
The King James Bible, 2011 |
Charles Dickens, 2012 |
Olympic Handover to Rio, 2012 |
350th Anniversary of the Guinea, 2013 |
150th Anniversary of the London Underground, 2013 | 150th Anniversary of the London Underground, 2013 |
100th Anniversary of the First World War, 2014 |
500th Anniversary of Trinity House, 2014 |
800th Anniversary of the Magna Carta, 2015 |
100th Anniversary of the First World War, 2015 |
Technology type, 2015 |
Britannia type, 2016 |
100th Anniversary of the First World War, 2016 |
350th Anniversary of the Great Fire of London, 2016 | 400th Anniversary of the Death of William Shakespeare, 2016 |
400th Anniversary of the Death of William Shakespeare, 2016 | 400th Anniversary of the Death of William Shakespeare, 2016 |
100th Anniversary of the First World War, 2017 | 200th Anniversary of the Death of Jane Austen, 2017 |
Centenary of the 1918 Armistice, 2018 | Centenary of the RAF, 2018 |
Bicentenary of the Publication of Frankenstein, 2018 |
75th Anniversary of D-Day, 2019 | 260th Anniversary of Wedgwood Pottery, 2019 |
Samuel Pepys, Diarist, 2019 | Captain Cook, 2019 |
Monometallic Royal Mint Trial piece, 1994 |
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