Vc 50p
It was the first UK 50p coin to show both date and denomination on the obverse, according to the Royal Mint. However, there was a mintage of 5.3million according to its website. Fencing 50p; Flopsy Bunny 50p; Football 50p; Girl Guides 50p; Goalball 50p; Gymnastics 50p; Handball 50p; Jemima Puddle-Duck 50p; Johnson’s Dictionary 50p; Kew Gardens 50p. A 50p design featuring the Royal Shield of Arms, which was released two years ago, is currently the second rarest 50p coin in circulation behind the 2009 Kew Gardens. 2006 Fifty Pence 50p Coins in Circulation page Three different 50p coins were issued in 2006. The standard Britannia design and two commemorative coins, both to mark the 150th anniversary of the Victoria Cross – one represents heroic acts and the other shows the medal itself. The 50p coin was introduced in 1969 to replace the Bank of England 10 Shilling note. It was one of only three decimal coins to have been made and circulated before decimalisation took place fully in 1971.
How much is it worth?
Collector Value:£1.20Vc 50p Value
is a mid-point price for Victoria Cross medal 50p coins marked as sold on eBay UK. The price range for a good condition circulated example of this 50p coin is between £1.04 and £1.25.Coin values based on 197 eBay sales selected from data collected 19/01/2021 19:49:30.
How rare is this coin?
Scarcity:Vc 50 Pence Piece
12,087,000 Victoria Cross medal 50p coins were struck for circulation showing the date 2006. 50p mintage figures are from The Royal Mint website, this coin design can be found in your change.Have you heard about the 50p coin that many thousands of people have found in their daily pocket change which was sold on e-Bay for prices upward of £100.00. Or to put it another way, 200 times its actual value?!
Only 109,000 1992 EC 50p were issued into circulation – roughly half of the Kew Gardens 50p.
It was all because in 2014 The Royal Mint announced that the Kew Gardens 50p coin is the UK’s most scarce circulation coin, with just 210,000 pieces ever been placed into circulation. The result was a media storm and the inevitable overnight ramping of prices.
Half the circulation of the Kew Gardens 50p
But what few people realise is that there is an even rarer UK 50p piece that was issued in half the number of the Kew Gardens coin – just 109,000 coins.
The coin was issued in 1992 to mark the EC Single Market and the UK presidency of the Council of Ministers – perhaps not the most popular of topics, which maybe was the reason so very few were pushed out into circulation. But of course, its lack of popularity at the time, is the very thing that now makes it Britain’s rarest 50p coin.
Vc 50p
Sadly, however hard you search, unlike the Kew Gardens 50p, you will not find this one in your change. That’s because it is one of the old-sized 50p coins that were demonetised in 1998.
The coin itself was designed by Mary Milner Dickens and pictures the UK’s place at the head of the Council of Ministers’ conference table. The stars represent each of the nations’ capital cities placed in their relative geographical position.
But it won’t be the coin’s clever design that will guarantee its numismatic interest for years to come. It is its status as the UK’s most rare circulation 50p is what will intrigue collectors and have them searching and saving up in years to come.
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Vc 50p Coin
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