Rare one pound coin with minting error selling for £6900 - can YOU spot it?

The eBay seller is offering the unusual coin on a Buy It Now basis.


Writing about the coin, the seller ‘take-a-peek’ said: “*RARE* 2016 Dated - 2017 New Shape 12 Sided £1 One Pound Coin Hunt Rare Uncirculated.


“This 2016 coin is rare and very collectable as these were the first produced and we are already into 2017, already twice as many 2017 have been produced.


“UNCIRCULATED ERROR COINS ARE WORTH THOUSANDS OF POUNDS AND WITH THIS BEING AN ISSUE ERROR COIN I HAVE LISTED, IT WILL BE WORTH MUCH, MUCH MORE IN THE YEARS TO COME!


This coin is a rarity, that COLLECTORS and INVESTORS would have a keen interest in.”


There are six people watching the coin and one new viewer an hour on the listing.


Royal Mint confirmed the minting error earlier this year and removed them from circulation, but they have missed some.


This means anyone who spots one in their change could be in for a windfall.


Getty Images/ebay/take-a-peek eBay: This one pound coin is selling for thousands thanks to a rare minting error


eBay/take-a-peek eBay: The £1 coin was minted with a 2016 date but was not released until 2017


eBay/take-a-peek eBay: The coin has no other errors, meaning the incorrect date could be easily missed


The £1 coin with a rare minting error is not the only British currency to catch the attention of collectors recently.


An unusual 50p is selling on eBay for a whopping £1,000,000.


The Offside Rule coin is being offered for sale by ‘gigbevgig’, and it is certainly popular, with two views an hour on the listing.


Writing about the coin, the seller said: “Rare Off Side Rules 50p Coin. Used.”


eBay/take-a-peek eBay: The coin is one of an unknown number minted with the incorrect year


The coin explains the offside rule with a simple drawing and was designed by Neil Wolfson.



Released in 2012 to honour the London Olympic Games, there was some controversy at the time over whether the coin accurately explained the rule.



Explaining his thinking behind the design, Neil said: “The coin simply states that the player is ‘offside’ – which is true, irrespective of whether or not an ‘offside offence’ results from this scenario.


“Furthermore, there are clearly space limitations on the coinface so it was obviously impossible to go into the finer details of the offside rule."