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Kate Lally

Rare 10p coin sells for £280 and one could turn up in your change

A rare 10p coin has sold for £280 on eBay, and one could easily turn up among your change if you live in the UK.

Rare coins that come from the Royal Mint are popular with coin collectors, but ones made in the Channel Islands and Gibraltar can also turn big profits online.

Many coins from these British islands are often found in our money boxes and pockets, after being erroneously used or given as change on the mainland.

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With a much lower population than the UK, some of these coins can be extremely rare, so it’s worth keeping hold of them.

One such coin, a 2015 Gibraltar 10 pence piece, sold for a staggering £280 last month.

One side of the coin features a Barbary partridge, the national bird of Gibraltar.

On the other is a portrait of Queen Elizabeth II verse with the words "ELIZABETH II QUEEN OF GIBRALTAR 2015".

The seller listed the item as a "Rare 2015 Gibraltar 10p coin Barbary Partridge National Bird Ten Pence Piece" and said it was in "good" condition.

This is just one of a number of coins that have sold for considerable sums of cash in recent weeks.

One of the rarest 20p coins in the UK sold for £90 on eBay on January 10.

The undated 20p became the first coin in over 300 years to enter circulation without a date and it’s estimated by The Royal Mint that no more than 250,000 coins made it into circulation.

This mule coin came about when the new Royal Shield 20p coins were struck for circulation in 2008, with no date on the reverse.

But a batch was accidentally issued with no date on either side of the coin.

Another lucky seller received £70 for theirs on January 27.

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