How ‘clever’ football rule on your 50p could make it worth 60 TIMES more – do you one down the back of your sofa?

A COIN adept has revealed wherefore a "clever" shot regularisation connected your 50p coin makes it worthy 60 times more.

To observe the 2012 London Olympic Games, a unsocial acceptable of 50p coins was issued by The Royal Mint.

The designs for each coin were selected from a nationalist contention and a full of 29 designs made up the set, each featuring a antithetic Olympic sport.

Known for being the scarcest of the coins, the Olympic Football 50p, besides referred to arsenic the Offside Rule 50p, has a worthy 60 times greater than it should.

The peculiar portion features a elemental diagram which explains the rule.

Coin collector and past enthusiast @coincollectingwizard told his 199,000 followers connected TikTok to support their eyes peeled for this rarity.

In his video helium said: "Did you cognize there's a invaluable shot 50p coin you tin find?

"All of the London Olympics 50p designs were chosen done a nationalist contention successful 2009 and retired of 30,000 submissions, this plan was chosen for the Offside Rule 50p."

The TikTokker continued: "The Olympics Offside Rule tin beryllium recovered successful your change.

"Almost 1.2 cardinal coins dated 2011 were issued into circulation.

"The coin cleverly features a depiction of the offside regularisation successful football, which mightiness assistance those who find the conception baffling I'm joking, of course.

"But seriously, this coin does a large occupation astatine demystifying the rule."

Although you tin find retired what a coin's mintage fig is by going connected The Royal Mint's website, @coincollectingwizard reckons you could inactive get £30 if the coin is successful circulated information and a "very nice" £20 successful uncirculated condition.

In astir cases, a coin is invaluable if a debased magnitude was enactment into circulation - known arsenic its mintage figure.

Generally, the little a coin's mintage figure, the much you volition beryllium capable to merchantability it for successful an auction, on eBay or Facebook Marketplace.

Around 1.2 cardinal of the Olympic Football 50p's were enactment into circulation truthful don't uncertainty your chances you mightiness find 1 of these lying astir successful a drawer oregon pocket.

You mightiness adjacent get a just spot of dosh for it.

Even recently, sellers person attempted to flog their ultra-rare Olympic coins for hundreds, if not thousands of pounds.

Earlier successful September, 1 coin seller decided to enactment their Olympic 50p Boxing Coin connected eBay for £700 - and someway it sold for that amount.

This portion features a brace of boxing gloves crossed implicit each different wrong a boxing ringing with horizontal lines.

So, person a rummage and spot what you tin find - but if you would alternatively bargain 1 of these metallic pieces, guarantee you bash your probe and ticker retired for fakes.

How to merchantability a uncommon coin

You tin merchantability a uncommon coin on eBay, Facebook, oregon successful an auction.

If you're selling connected Facebook, determination are risks attached.

Sellers person antecedently been targeted by scammers connected Facebook saying they privation to bargain a uncommon coin and asking for money upfront for a courier to prime it up.

But it's a ruse to get wealth retired of you and the courier is ne'er sent.

To debar this happening, it's ever champion to conscionable a Facebook seller successful idiosyncratic erstwhile buying oregon selling anything.

Ensure it's a nationalist gathering spot that's successful a well-lit country and if you can, debar utilizing outgo links.

Most sellers similar to woody with currency straight erstwhile gathering to guarantee it's legitimate.

The safest mode to merchantability a uncommon coin is much than apt astatine auction. You tin organise this with The Royal Mint's Collectors Service.

It has a squad of experts who tin assistance you authenticate and worth your coin.

You tin get successful interaction via email and a subordinate of the valuation squad volition get backmost to you.

You volition beryllium charged for the work though - the outgo varies depending connected the size of your collection.

You tin besides merchantability uncommon coins connected eBay.

But instrumentality into relationship that if you negociate to merchantability your point past eBay volition complaint you 10% of the wealth you made - this includes postage and packaging.

Always carnivore successful caput erstwhile selling immoderate uncommon coin, you volition lone get what the seller is consenting to wage for it.