Look for this rare £2 coin in your change that could be worth £270

Some eBay sellers person adjacent listed this sought-after coin for thousands of pounds.

Brits are urged to support a look retired for a circumstantial £2 coin that could beryllium worthy hundreds to collectors. The portion from 2011 has been known to merchantability for astir £270, with immoderate sellers adjacent listing it for much than £1,000 online.

The coin successful question features an representation of the 4th authoritative Commonwealth Youth Games Mascot, Tosha the Cat. Pobjoy Mint issued the coin connected behalf of the Isle of Man Treasury.

And successful 2018, it gained adjacent much popularity online with coin enthusiasts connected societal media labelling it the “coin of the year”. But what makes this £2 coin truthful special?

Experts astatine Change Checker explained: “Whilst rarity is usually a ample origin successful however collectable a coin is, mintage figures for British Isles coins are notoriously hard to way down and this coin is nary exception. No 1 really knows the existent mintage figure, truthful it can’t beryllium said however uncommon the coin is, though we bash cognize that British Isles coins typically person little mintages than UK coins owed to the smaller population.

“One happening we bash cognize for definite is that the Isle of Man Tosha Cat £2 is decidedly sought-after amongst collectors. Although the Tosha Cat £2 was issued successful 2011, it wasn’t until it was posted connected Facebook coin groups successful 2018 that the terms started skyrocketing connected the secondary market.

“In fact, successful 2018 this coin became ‘Coin of the Year’ connected Facebook coin groups, and this is wherever it truly recovered its occurrence .Following the Facebook hype surrounding the Tosha £2, eBay bidding wars began. At a clip erstwhile the Kew Gardens was selling for astir £80 connected eBay, this coin was regularly selling for treble that.”

Listings connected eBay proceed to regularly transcend £100 and adjacent spell up to thousands of pounds for this Isle of Man coin. In a caller video posted to societal media level TikTok, adept the Coin Collector UK revealed the coin to beryllium worthy astir £270.