Next time you come across a long-forgotten pocket of old change, make sure you take a moment to examine any 50ps you find - if you’re holding on to one with a certain design, it could earn you hundreds of times its original value.
Issued in 1992 and 1993, just 109,000 special 50p coins were minted to celebrate the UK’s presidency of the European Council of Ministers and the completion of the Single Market. This is almost half the number of the renowned Kew Gardens 50p , of which 210,000 were made - making this one nearly twice as rare.
The design by Mary Milner Dickens features a conference table surrounded by 12 chairs for each member of the Council, as well as the years 1992 and 1993. The UK is represented at the head of the table, which has twelve stars placed in the geographic positions of each member’s capital city, The Mirror reports .
