Fifty Pence.

What are the rarest 50p coins?

Any coin with a low mintage number can be considered rare. Bearing this in mind, below is a list* of the top 5 rarest fifty pence coins:

1. The Kew Gardens (only 210,000 issued for circulation)
2. The Football Olympic (mintage 1,125,000)
3. The Triathlon Olympic (mintage 1,163,500)
4. The Wrestling Olympic (mintage 1,129,500)
5. The Judo Olympic (mintage 1,161,500)

A few of the coins featured on our website also have lower mintage, such as the Suffragettes 2003 50p Proof in silver (not currently available) (mintage 6,267), the NHS 50p Proof piedfort in silver (mintage 5,117), and the 1973 UK entry to the EEC 50p(not currently available) in Proof Cupronickel.

*List provided by ChangeChecker.

What fifty pence pieces are worth money?

Depending on the condition of the coin, any of the coins listed above can be worth more than their face value. But instead of telling you which coins are worth money, we would rather tell you which ones we don’t usually buy... for starters the cupronickel coins issued for circulation even if they are considered rare. The Peter Rabbit issues, for example, the only ones worth money are the ones struck with colouring in silver proof. But there are others: the Benjamin Britten, The Paddington Bear, and any of the Beatrix Potter commemorative issues. In our opinion, they have been over-hyped by the press. And, whilst a lot of them are for sale online for very high prices, there’s little evidence to suggest that they are actually selling...