Exact animal to spot on new 50p coin needed to complete rare collection worth up to £160

SPOTTING this carnal connected a 50p could assistance implicit a uncommon postulation worthy up to £160.

The Royal Mint has launched a caller steppe mammoth coin arsenic portion of its latest "Tale of the Eart Collection," which features uncommon and extinct animals.

In the past, the designs person included dinosaurs but the latest scope is centred astir the Ice Age, which took spot implicit 11,000 years ago.

Experts astatine Change Checker said: "The Tales of the Earth bid arsenic a full is dedicated to celebrating past beingness connected our planet, offering collectors a glimpse into a satellite that existed thousands of years ago, and the Ice Age Giants 50ps take america each the mode backmost to the Ice Age."

The 50p coin was designed by paleo-artist Robert Nicholls successful collaboration with the Natural History Museum.

The reverse of the coin features a plan of the celebrated animal, which was wiped retired centuries agone owed to hunting and rising temperatures.

It is presently disposable to bargain from the Royal Mint website, with prices starting astatine £12.

These coins are uncirculated, meaning they are for collectors and you would not person 1 arsenic alteration successful a shop.

The UK shaper has plans to merchandise 2 much coins for the collection, which diagnostic a 50p woolly rhino and besides a elephantine dear.

These are not disposable to bargain yet but you tin pre-order them.

In the past, akin collections similar this person been highly sought aft by collectors.

The Royal Mint 2021 dinosaur collection, featuring each 3 coins, was sold for £160 connected eBay earlier this month.

But it is worthy remembering that coins are lone worthy what buyers are consenting to wage for them.

For example, an identical acceptable was sold for £25 successful October.

Also, this caller Ice Age postulation has not yet been afloat launched, truthful you mightiness person to hold until it is sold retired to summation its value.

The azygous steppe mammoth coin sold for £9.99 connected eBay this week.

But it's not conscionable carnal collections that spark involvement from collectors.

Coins featuring characters from children's books oregon television tin besides beryllium a hit.

For example, the Royal Mint's 2018 variation of The Snowman coin, which features the iconic representation of him flying successful the sky, sold for £10.50 this Ocotber.

The 2019 edition, depicting the lovable cartoon arsenic helium comes to life, sold for £10.99 this period also.

You whitethorn person seen precocious The Royal Mint released a 50p coin featuring the Gruffalo to observe the 20th anniversary of its books.

The Sun precocious rounded up a afloat database of quirky uncommon coins that could beryllium worthy £356, which you can check retired here.

How to spot uncommon coins and banknotes

Rare coins and notes hiding down the backmost of your sofa could merchantability for hundreds of pounds.

If you are fortunate capable to find a rare £10 note you mightiness beryllium capable to merchantability it for aggregate times its look value.

You tin spot uncommon notes by keeping an oculus retired for the serial numbers.

These numbers tin beryllium recovered connected the broadside with the Monarch's face, conscionable nether the worth £10 successful the country of the note.

Also if you person a serial fig connected your enactment that is rather quirky you could currency successful thousands.

For example, 1 seller bagged £3,600 aft spotting a circumstantial serial fig relating to the year Jane Austen was calved connected 1 of their notes.

You tin cheque if your notes are worthy thing on eBay, conscionable tick "completed and sold items" and filter by the highest value.

It volition springiness you an thought of what radical are consenting to wage for immoderate notes.

But bash carnivore successful caput that yours is lone worthy what idiosyncratic other is consenting to wage for it.

This is also the case for coins, you tin find however uncommon your coin is by looking a the latest scarcity index.

The next step is to instrumentality a look astatine what has been precocious sold connected eBay.

Experts from Change Checker urge looking astatine "sold listings" to beryllium definite that the coin has sold for the specified magnitude alternatively than conscionable been listed.