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Kate Lally & Ketsuda Phoutinane

Rare 50p coin sells for £410 - signs your change could be worth bidding war

It's time to check your spare change after a rare 50p coin sold for £410 - over 800 times its value.

Rare coins valued by collectors can fetch huge sums of money and the Kew Gardens coin is chief among them. Worth an estimated £140, there are only 210,000 of the pieces in circulation.

With a starting price of £150, the auction led to a 12-way bidding war, as reported by the Liverpool Echo. The end result had one eBay seller making a tidy profit - read on for how to spot the coin.

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