Robert Murray Stamp Shop, Edinburgh (Also leading dealers, valuers, and auctioneers of coins. ) U.K. 50p Coins :: How Much Are They Really Worth ?

There's an awful lot of nonsense online about the value of some modern British coins, particularly the 50p, £1, and £2 ones. We receive many enquiries about these, often from people admitting that they are confused by the conflicting information they have found.

Here's a couple of facts to start with;
{1} Very, very few of the fifty pence coins are worth anything more than their face value.
{2} People can offer coins online for whatever price they choose.

What we are trying to do here is to give an idea of actual sale prices of these coins. The largest numbers of these sold online in the UK are on Ebay, but we are forever telling people to ignore what people are asking for ("hoping for"), and look at what prices the coins have actually sold at. On Ebay this can be done by clicking the "sold listings" box.
People are understandably confused when they see lists of these coins, often described as "very rare", but with hundreds of them on affer at any time !
Methodology; We have looked at each coin, and the prices they currently show as Ebay "sold" listings. The very highest prices have been ignored, as have the very lowest (these are the glitches and off-the-wall sales, and sometimes might include sales which failed to be completed). We therefore show prices at the upper end of the range (but not very highest) and at the lower end of the range (but not lowest), and ignore postage (taking a little off any sales which have been "free postage"). We also show a figure which represents the approximate middle of the bunch.
We list here only the pictorial/special design fifty pences.
Prices are for standard issue single coins (not proof or silver or gold versions, or special packs etc.). If you are thinking of selling any of the cheaper ones in an online auction, remember that you will have to pay fees out of the sale price.

 

Year	Issue	Lowest	Middle	Highest
	PAGE UNDER CONSTRUCTION
1973	European Community (hands) (large size)	50p	£2.	£6.
1998	EU Stars	55p	£1.50	£9
1998	NHS	60p	£1.25	£10.
2000	Libraries	50p	80p	£2.
2003	Votes for Women	70p	£2.	£3.50
2004	Four-minute-mile	50p	80p	£3.50
2005	Johnson's Dictionary	60p	£1.	£5.50
2006	Victoria Cross (man carrying another)	50p	£1.30	£6.
2006	Victoria Cross (medal)	50p	£1.25	£6.
2007	Scouting	50p	£1.20	£6.50
2009	Kew Gardens	£70.	£90.	£170.
2009	Olympic
2010	Girl Guides	60p	£1.50	£6.
2011	WWF	60p	£1.40	£12.
2012	Olympics. 29 different designs issued. These vary in scarcity; the Judo, Football, Triathlon ones carry a moderate premium. Tennis, Handball, Goalball and Sailing usually sell for a bit more than face value. The others tend to be more easily available.
2013	Coat of Arms	60p	£1.50	£7.
2013	Benjamin Britten	50p	90p	£4.
2014	Commonwealth Games, Glasgow
2015	Battle of Britain
2016	Battle of Hastings	55p	£1.	£10.
	Re the Battle of Hastings, here's where some confusion starts. At the time of writing,  there were a couple of these on offer on Ebay at ten million pounds each. But remember the fact that you could take any coin from your pocket right now, scan it, and list it on Ebay at millions of pounds. It doesn't mean that it is worth it, and you wouldn't be expecting it to actually sell. These got a lot of press coverage when someone listed one at £2,000,000. There appear to have been actual sales in the region of £2,000 to £2,500. If these have indeed converted into completed sales at these prices this would probably be to someone who saw the press report and rushed into buying what they thought was a bargain. (It wasn't !)
2016	Beatrix Potter	40p	70p	£1.50
2016	Peter Rabbit (head and shoulders)	50p	80p	£6.
2016	Jemima Puddle-Duck	£5.50	£9.50	£14.
2016	Mrs Tiggy-Winkle	50p	£1.	£3.
2016	Squirrel Nutkin	50p	£1.25	£6.
2016	Team GB Swimmer	50p	90p	£1.25
2017	Newton	55p	£2.	£5.
2017	The Tale of Peter Rabbit (full body)	50p	£1.20	£5.
2017	Mr Jeremy Fisher	£5.	£6.50	£13.
2017	Tom Kitten	70p	80p	£1.
2017	Benjamin Bunny	£3.	£9.	£12.50

Pricings of Fifty Pence coins carried out in January 2018, updated July/August 2018.
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