There are are no shortage of sellers on eBay purporting to sell a range of rare 50p coins, which tend to offer the Olympic designs for between £1.50 and £20. This is significantly behind the Kew Gardens 50p coin, which reportedly attracted an average price of £156.00. The rare coins website Change Checker has an eBay tracker, which details how some 50p coins can fetch significant sums in the secondary sale market.Īccording to this, the most valuable of the Olympic designs is the Football coin, which fetched an average of £13.00 over the nine most recent completed eBay sales up to mid-January. A figure in a canoe on a slalom course, with the London 2012 logo above and the denomination 50 PENCE below. 2011 Olympic Shooting, 1,656,500 Are the Olympics 50p coins valuable? The 2009 Kew Gardens 50p remains by far the rarest coin in circulation, with a mintage of just 210,000, while the most common, the 1997 Britannia 50p, has a circulation of 456,364,100.ġ0. While these were the designs that made the top 10, a total of 29 were released, with the full mintages below:

Collectable 50p 2011 coins