£2 coin with a very specific date is worth 17 times its value - what you need to look for

The £2 coins, minted successful 2007 person the day 1807 engraved connected them and precocious 2 person sold online for £28 and £25.74 precocious making them worthy keeping an oculus retired for

A £2 coin with a circumstantial day connected it could beryllium worthy 17 times its look worth - truthful cheque your alteration to spot if you person been fixed one.

The uncommon £2 coins, minted successful 2007 person the day 1807 engraved connected them and precocious 2 person sold online for £28 and £25.74.

The coins were part of a minting to commemorate 200 years since the passing of the enslaved Trade Act of 1807 - which made it amerciable to commercialized slaves successful the British Empire.

The crushed these circumstantial coins sold for truthful overmuch is that they are portion of the Piedfort metallic variation which marque them particularly absorbing to collectors.

There were 3,990 of the Piedfort metallic 1807 coins issued successful total. "In a modular value of 24.00 grams, this £2 is struck successful .925 sterling metallic with a set of good golden plating astir the borderline reminiscent of the Two Pounds successful your change," the Britannia Coin Company explained connected their website.

The Piedfort metallic 1807 coins were primitively sold for astir £49 whereas 8,445,000 of the regular 1807 coin were made, worthy their £2 look value, the Sun reports. The metallic coins are worthy much due to the fact that they were struck aggregate times meaning they person amended item and quality, arsenic good arsenic their scarcity.

The coin features a breached concatenation motif with the zero forming portion of the chain. On the different broadside is the caput of Queen Elizabeth II and it besides features the inscription "Am I Not A Man, And A Brother".

Meanwhile a coin adept says determination is a item connected immoderate 20 pence pieces which tin marque it hundreds of times its mean worth and known arsenic the “holy grail”. In 2008 immoderate 20p coins were minted with the incorrect dye and so, arsenic a result, they person nary dates. The premix up was the archetypal clip successful 3 centuries a coin had entered circulation without a date.