An EC 50p coin, which was minted between 1992 and 1993, could now earn you 120 times its face value. Only 109,000 of these coins were put into circulation by the Royal Mint, making them incredibly hard to come across and inevitably valuable.
It is said to be a lot more difficult to find than the 2009 popular Kew Gardens counterpart, with the ‘90s version being twice as rare (210,000 Kew Gardens’ 50ps were made). The 30-year-old coins were originally minted to celebrate the Presidency of the Council of European Community Ministers and the completion of the Single Market.
This was a forerunner to the European Union, which was formed in November 1993. Designed by Mary Milner Dicken, the coin features a bird’s-eye view of a conference table surrounded by 12 chairs - one for each member of the Council, as the Mirror reports.
