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.