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UK households are being told to check coins for a rare 50p coin with an error worth more than £50. An expert says this piece features a rare error making it worth around “100 times” its face value.

The coin was minted in 2017 in honour of Sir Isaac Newton, with only 1.8 millon created. It proved extremely popular with collectors with the Royal Mint offering a strike your own Isaac Newton 50p experience a year later.

However, you want to look for a specific mistake. In a video uploaded to social media platform TikTok, an expert known as the Coin Collecting Wizard explained: “This 50p could have an error making it valuable.”

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He detailed the error to look for which includes s

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