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Three different 50p coins were issued in 2006. The standard Britannia design and two commemorative coins, both to mark the 150th anniversary of the Victoria Cross – one represents heroic acts and the other shows the medal itself.

The British decimal fifty pence (50p) coin – often informally pronounced fifty pee – is a unit of currency equalling one half of a pound sterling.It is a seven-sided coin formed as an equilateral-curve heptagon, or Reuleaux polygon, a curve of constant width, meaning that the diameter is constant across any bisection. Fencing 50p; Flopsy Bunny 50p; Football 50p; Girl Guides 50p; Goalball 50p; Gymnastics 50p; Handball 50p; Jemima Puddle-Duck 50p; Johnson’s Dictionary 50p; Kew Gardens 50p. 2006 VC 50p Victoria Cross 150th Anniversary Circulated Coin. 0 bids Ending Today at 8:49PM GMT 18h 46m.

The Standard Design:

Obverse Type 4 (bust design by Ian Rank-Broadley):

Reverse Type 3 (design by Christopher Ironside):

Mintage for Circulation: 24,567,000.

Collectability/Scarcity: 1 (for scale details see here)

The story behind the design:

The obverse portrait of the Queen by Ian Rank-Broadley was used on all UK coinage from 1998 to 2014 and also on some coins dated 2015. It was the fourth portrait of the Queen used on coinage.

The reverse design, by Christopher Ironside, shows Briannia seated. Britannia had appeared on at least one British coin denomination since the 1670s, and in fact long before that there were Roman coins showing the word ‘BRITANNIA’ and the helmeted female representation of Britannia to celebrate the Roman capture of Britain.

Commemorative 50p coin, Type 10:

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Obverse Type 4 (bust design by Ian Rank-Broadley):

Reverse Type (design by Clive Duncan):

Mintage for Circulation: 10,000,500.

Collectability/Scarcity: 1 (for scale details see here)

The story behind the design:

The obverse portrait of the Queen by Ian Rank-Broadley was used on all UK coinage from 1998 to 2014 and also on some coins dated 2015. It was the fourth portrait of the Queen used on coinage.

The reverse design, by Clive Duncan shows a soldier carrying a wounded soldier, with the large outline of a VC in the background. The Victoria Cross is the highest military decoration and is awards for acts of extreme valour:

Commemorative 50p coin, Type 11:

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Obverse Type 4 (bust design by Ian Rank-Broadley):

Reverse Type (design by Claire Aldridge):

Mintage for Circulation: 12,087,000.

Collectability/Scarcity: 1 (for scale details see here)

The story behind the design:

The obverse portrait of the Queen by Ian Rank-Broadley was used on all UK coinage from 1998 to 2014 and also on some coins dated 2015. It was the fourth portrait of the Queen used on coinage.

The reverse design, by Claire Aldridge shows the front and back of the VC medal.

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Have you heard about the 50p coin that many thousands of people have found in their daily pocket change which was sold on e-Bay for prices upward of £100.00. Or to put it another way, 200 times its actual value?!

Only 109,000 1992 EC 50p were issued into circulation – roughly half of the Kew Gardens 50p.

It was all because in 2014 The Royal Mint announced that the Kew Gardens 50p coin is the UK’s most scarce circulation coin, with just 210,000 pieces ever been placed into circulation. The result was a media storm and the inevitable overnight ramping of prices.

Half the circulation of the Kew Gardens 50p

But what few people realise is that there is an even rarer UK 50p piece that was issued in half the number of the Kew Gardens coin – just 109,000 coins.

The coin was issued in 1992 to mark the EC Single Market and the UK presidency of the Council of Ministers – perhaps not the most popular of topics, which maybe was the reason so very few were pushed out into circulation. But of course, its lack of popularity at the time, is the very thing that now makes it Britain’s rarest 50p coin.

Sadly, however hard you search, unlike the Kew Gardens 50p, you will not find this one in your change. That’s because it is one of the old-sized 50p coins that were demonetised in 1998.

The coin itself was designed by Mary Milner Dickens and pictures the UK’s place at the head of the Council of Ministers’ conference table. The stars represent each of the nations’ capital cities placed in their relative geographical position.

But it won’t be the coin’s clever design that will guarantee its numismatic interest for years to come. It is its status as the UK’s most rare circulation 50p is what will intrigue collectors and have them searching and saving up in years to come.

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