Check your change for this £2 coin with a specific error worth over £120
Check your change for this £2 coin with a specific error worth over £120
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A coin expert has urged Brits to check their change for an unusual £2 piece that could be worth more than £120. The coin could fetch far more than its face value if it carries a specific error. Some versions of the 2016 Shakespeare’s tragedies coin, which features the image of a skull on its reverse, are of particular interest to collectors due to one mistake. An expert, known online as the Coin Collector UK, took to social media platform TikTok to explain more.
He advised his followers to carefully check the outer edge of the coin for its inscription. “£123 if you find this Shakespeare £2 coin,” he said. “So what you want to be checking for on your Shakespeare’s tragedies coin is the edge inscription.” When these coins were created some were mistakenly minted with the wrong inscription.
The correct phrase is “what a piece of work is a man”, while the error versions will say “for king and country". The expert continued: “It should say around the edge, ‘what a piece of work is a man’, like this one. “However, in 2016 when these were minted, the Royal Mint actually messed up and ended up producing some with the edge inscription from the army centenary coin, which you can see here. The error coin says around the edge, ‘for king and country.’”.
