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Public Urged to Check Brexit 50p Coins as Rare Pre‑2020 Dates May Fetch Over £40,000

Experts say authenticated misdated pieces are exceptionally scarce, with total survivors unknown after early batches were recycled.

Overview

  • A TikTok commentator known as Coin Collecting Wizard renewed attention on the coin by highlighting an example dated March 29, 2019 and advising people to check their change.
  • Error pieces bear the scrapped Brexit dates of March 29, 2019 or October 31, 2019, on a design that reads "peace, prosperity and friendship with all nations" and features Queen Elizabeth II.
  • Spink & Son specialist Gregory Edmund says any authenticated example taken to auction could exceed £40,000, noting two October‑dated coins reported earlier this year.
  • The Treasury has confirmed some pieces were struck for testing, but it has not stated how many misdated coins might exist in the wild.
  • Reporting cites about 1,000 March‑dated trial strikes and suggests roughly one million October‑dated pieces were later melted down.