Rare coin could be worth £200,000 – how to spot if you have it

Coin collectors are connected the hunt for a uncommon British coin which could beryllium worthy a tiny fortune.

The 1952 impervious penny, featuring King George VI, is 1 of the past of the coins struck with his cipher earlier his decease successful February of that year.

Proof pennies are aboriginal samples of a peculiar coin which are usually of higher prime than coins successful wide circulation.

And this peculiar 1 could beryllium worthy £200,000, with 1 illustration going nether the hammer and selling for the immense sum recently.

Online adept the Coin Collecting Wizard took to TikTok to explain: ‘This is simply a UK penny from 1952.

‘This intriguing impervious coin is the rarest impervious penny of the full bid of copper and bronze pennies.

‘It wasn’t known that these pennies existed until 1 came to auction astir 30 years ago.

‘A beauteous illustration went up for auction precocious and sold for £200,000. So it is 100% a coin to look retired for.’

Pre-decimal pennies are 31mm successful size and are formed successful bronze.

The 1952 impervious penny is identifiable with King George VI’s illustration connected 1 face, featuring the Latin fable ‘GEORGIVS VI D: G: BR: OMN: REX FIDEI DEF’.

On the reverse Britannia is seated with heraldic shield and trident with the words ‘ONE PENNY 1952’.

The Sovereign Rarities website calls the coin ‘the rarest impervious penny of the full bid of copper and bronze pennies’, and cipher knew it existed until 1 appeared astatine auction 45 years aft it was struck.

When the archetypal 1952 impervious penny went to auction successful 1997 it sold for £23,468 – worthy conscionable nether £45,000 successful today’s money.

Specialised notation books did not database a 1952 Penny arsenic impervious oregon currency and it was thought that ‘no pennies dated 1952 were struck’.

But Sovereign Rarities explains: ‘The British Numismatic satellite was astonished to spot this coin look astatine auction connected October 13, 1997, an auction that drew connected coins selected from the famed “basement” banal cache of uncommon and antithetic coins belonging to past household business.

‘This impervious coin appeared for merchantability arsenic batch 67 astatine the auction with the pursuing one-line statement “George VI, Proof Penny 1952. Spot connected reverse, different mint authorities and believed unique” with a specified footnote to accidental “There was nary currency contented of this date”.

‘It is possibly understandable that the George VI 1952 impervious penny remains a unsocial piece, arsenic the King died precise aboriginal successful 1952.

‘Only the smaller denominations of currency coins that were successful large request were struck for circulation successful 1952, with the larger denominations omitted successful anticipation of a caller reign and a caller coinage for Queen Elizabeth II.

‘The lone mass-produced currency coins dated 1952 are the Sixpence which is rare, brass Threepence, Halfpenny and Farthing.’

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