ALWAYS check your spare change – it’s possible some coins in your purse could fetch a pretty penny.
These 11 designs are considered the rarest but in 2005, to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the gun powder plot, the Royal Mint changed the design of the £2 coin.
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They only manufactured a small number of the Guy Fawkes pieces, however some of them were released with a typo, which is why they could fetch much more than you’d think.
The standard pieces had the words “Remember, Remember” along the side, in reference to Guy Fawkes, and the classic rhyme to help people recall on which day the gunpowder plot occurred.
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But a small number of coins had spelling mistake:“Pemember, Pemember the Fifth of November” written on them.
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And if you find you have one of those special coins with the typo, you could be cashing in on The Royal Mint’s mistake because they’re going for much more on eBay.
When we checked most recently, people on the auction site are finding collectors are willing to pay as much as £10.50 for one of the £2 coins – five times more than its face value.
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The Royal Mint has admitted the mistake but refused to disclose how many might be in circulation.
A spokesman said: ”It’s likely to be a consequence of the production process.
”It’s very, very infrequent that we issue coins with an error. We have quality control to detect any defects.”
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And it’s not just the “Pemember, Pemember” coin which you could be cashing in on, in 2008, the Royal Mint released a £2 coin to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Dickens.
The coin featured some of the author’s most famous book titles and is regarded as a collectable because only 20,000 were created which is why they’re now worth around four times its face value.
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And in 2011 the Royal Mint released two separate £2 coins in celebration of the 500th anniversary of the Mary Rose and the 400th anniversary of the King James Bible.
There were only 20,000 of each coin released and they could fetch around three times their face value.
