'I found rare £1 coin with huge error design - now I'll sell it for hundreds of pounds'

Diane Bath, 62, who runs The Post Office successful Broughton-in-Furness, Cumbria, spotted a caller £1 King Charles coin that is wholly successful 1 colour - and present she plans connected selling it

A postmistress could beryllium acceptable to marque hundreds of pounds aft uncovering a botched £1 coin.

Diane Bath, 62, who runs The Post Office successful Broughton-in-Furness, Cumbria, spotted a caller £1 King Charles coin that is wholly successful 1 colour. All caller £1 coins are made with 2 metallic rings - the extracurricular is made from nickel-brass, portion the wrong is nickel plated brass alloy.

But the uncommon £1 coin that Ms Bath recovered successful a transportation of caller coins delivered to her Post Office is wholly successful brass. The coin features King Charles’ representation connected 1 side, portion the different broadside depicts a caller 2023 plan of 2 bees to observe the monarch’s emotion of nature.

Ms Bath, who has been a postmistress for implicit 20 years, told The Sun: “I americium perfectly implicit the moon. Obviously we grip currency each the clip and it’s the astir breathtaking find I’ve ever had successful implicit 2 decades.”

Coins that person been made with mistakes connected them are called "error coins" and are highly invaluable to collectors. This is due to the fact that they could beryllium lone 1 of a handful, oregon 1 of a benignant - truthful they're hard to find. It isn’t wide if this coin is 1 of a kind, oregon if akin mistake coins could beryllium successful existence. Ms Bath said she searched online and could not spot thing similar.

Oliver Reece, British Coin Specialist astatine Baldwin’s, said: “It whitethorn not beryllium unsocial but surely they are, by their precise nature, uncommon things and the marketplace is rather beardown for modern errors. I should deliberation it would beryllium worthy a bully fewer 100 pounds but you ne'er cognize however these things volition spell astatine auction arsenic determination are often nary nonstop comparisons.”

You should ever beryllium wary and bash your probe archetypal earlier buying immoderate coin connected eBay, arsenic determination are ever fakes floating around. Websites and Facebook groups from alteration experts similar Coin Hunter tin assistance you enactment retired if a coin is the existent woody oregon not.

You tin besides inquire the Royal Mint to verify coins. If you're selling a coin, beryllium alert that determination isn't a warrant for however overmuch you could get connected eBay unless you acceptable a reserve price. Coins are truly lone worthy what idiosyncratic is consenting to wage for them. For much coins that could beryllium worthy a fortune, we've got a usher connected the rarest mistake coins that could beryllium worthy up to £1,000.

A spokeswoman from the Royal Mint said: “The Royal Mint has choky prime controls successful spot and the accidental of encountering immoderate UK coin with mistake is exceptionally low. We ever impulse collectors to beryllium cautious and to bash their research.”