Rare Kew Gardens 50p coin on sale for £220 on eBay – and there’s loads out there

Rare coin collectors know just how valuable the Kew Gardens 50p is.

The change is one of the most popular coins to collect as it features the infamous Chinese Pagoda.

It entered circulation back in 2009 with around 210,000 minted and then released to the public.

Christopher Le Brun designed the coin to show the Kew Gardens pagoda with the dates 1759 and 2009.

Now it's up for sale on eBay with multiple buyers hoping to get their claws on one of the most-sought after coins.

According to the seller on the website, the coin is in "circulated condition" and there's one left to buy.

So far, two have been sold for around £219 with the third waiting for its next owner.

The seller also said the coin was reissued in 2019 as part of the 50th anniversary of the 50p celebrations.

And the 2019 version was a commemorative issue which did not enter general circulation.

Recently we saw the rare 50p coin sell for around 300 times its face value on eBay.

It finally sold for £281.11 earlier last month after numerous coin collectors started bidding on it.

According to the Royal Mint, it is one of the top 10 rarest coins in circulation beating a number of commemorative coins.

However, last month an old 50p coin rare and harder to find than the Kew Gardens was revealed to be worth a lot.

The EC 50p coin was released between 1992 and 1993 by the Royal Mint to mark the completion of the Single Market.

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It was also launched to celebrate the UK's presidency of the European Council.

With its design it features a birds-eye view of a conference table with 12 chairs around it for each of the ministers.

Only 109,000 of these rare 50p coins were minted, which is far less than the Kew Gardens coin that has 210,000.

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