12/11/2023 0 Comments Most collectible 50p coins![]() The gallery below shows some of the rarest £2 coins in circulation. These four all look identical, except for a minor change - the image of the respective flag of the nation included on the front of the coin which is shown next to a running athlete trailing a banner behind. ![]() It belongs to a group offour coins that celebrate the Home Nations' - England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland's - participation in thegames. In February 2014 the British press broke this story and speculation over the coin’s value escalated the price to the point where some were being offered for hundreds of pounds. It is the only coin to have a mintage of less than 500,000 and is currently selling on eBay for around £40. The Kew Gardens 50p for example is the scarcest of all UK circulating coins there are just 210,000 in circulation out of approximately 1 billion fifty pence pieces. ![]() The most valuable is the Northern Ireland 2002 Commonwealth Games coin, deemed the rarest of all the 37 £2 coins currently in circulation. One of the most valuable £2 coins - the 2012 Commonwealth Games England coin
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