Here's everything you need to know if you think you might be sitting on a fortune
Recently, certain coins that look pretty ordinary have ended up selling for thousands of pounds on online marketplaces. One lucky Glaswegian reportedly bagged £10,000 after selling a 'rare' Brexit coin on eBay in February.
"We would always advise that if you had a coin in your collection you were trying to sell and another collector has been trying to track that down for a really long time, of course that collector would potentially be willing to pay above the odds to get hold of it to complete their collection. If another collector did have that coin already or didn't hold it to such value, you would perhaps struggle to get as much or that coin.
"You can also look at Facebook coin groups as you tend to get more serious collectors and it's also really great place to get advice as well if you are looking for more information on coins. There's also the British Numismatic Trade Association and they have listed of dealers on there. How to identify a rare coin If you don't know what to look for, it can be hard to know if any of your coins could be worth selling. Speaking about their six-point guide, Rachel has said it's worth checking it out - because "there is nothing more exciting when you find a different coin in your change and you want to figure out how much it's worth and whether it's a collectible.
Which coins to look out for Rachel has said that any of the Olympic 50p coins are popular with collectors, explaining it was the coin that "kickstarted the craze and the nation's love of collecting. Those were celebrating the London Olympics and the mintage figure of each of those are really quite low, they're sort of around the 1.1 million to two million mark which although it sounds like a lot, when you consider the population of the UK, it's actually a really small number.
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