Unusual plant to spot on rare 50p that makes it worth up to £187 – do you have one in your change?

SPOTTING this antithetic works connected a uncommon 50p coin could fetch you a hefty sum.

The commemorative Kew Gardens coin, which was minted successful 2009, was created to people 250 years since the botanical gardens opened successful 1759.

Only 210,000 of these coins were created by the Royal Mint, making it 1 of the rarest pieces retired there.

The beforehand of the coin has an representation of the precocious Queen Elizabeth II, with the engraver's initials, Ian Rank-Broadley, below.

What makes it peculiar is the reverse, which features a leafy vine wrapped astir a Chinese pagoda.

It besides has the day of the twelvemonth it was made to commemorate the anniversary.

In the past, these coins person sold for up to £700 connected eBay.

Recently, the coin has not sold for arsenic much, but if you person 1 lying around, it tin inactive fetch a hefty sum.

One purchaser precocious paid £187 for the Kew Gardens coin pursuing a bid connected eBay.

And earlier this week, different seller managed to flog the coin for £140 aft 14 bids.

On the aforesaid day, different purchaser paid £143 for the coin aft a bidding warfare betwixt 26 people.

However, it is important to retrieve that coins are lone worthy however overmuch a bidder is consenting to pay.

So, if you are keen to merchantability a coin, it is worthy bearing successful caput that you could extremity up receiving much oregon little than you initially hoped for.

It is important to retrieve that this 2009 Kew Gardens coin is uncirculated, meaning you would not person it arsenic alteration if you paid for thing successful a shop.

In 2019, The Royal Mint besides released a 2nd mentation of the coin.

Its reverse is identical to the original; the lone quality is the date, which reads 2019.

These coins person been listed for up to £90 pounds connected eBay but nary person appeared to beryllium sold successful the past month.

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.

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

But 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 checking "sold listings" to guarantee the coin sold for the specified amount, alternatively than conscionable being listed.