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How rare is my £2 and how much is it worth?
Since the first very bi-metallic £2 coins were released back in 1998, there have been 37 UK £2 coin designs issued for circulation! But with so many different designs in circulation, how can you tell which ones you should be looking out for?
Luckily for you, we’ve done the hard work and compiled a number of resources to help you determine how rare your £2 coin is and how much it might be worth.
Mintages
A key tool for working out how rare your coin might be is our £2 mintage chart. Generally speaking, the lower the mintage, the rarer the coin and the harder it will be to find in circulation.
Below is the most up to date mintage chart for the UK £2 coins in circulation, with the UK’s rarest – the 2002 Commonwealth Games Northern Ireland £2 – in top spot.
With a circulating mintage of just 485,500, the N. Ireland Commonwealth Games £2 is the rarest in circulation by far. The second rarest is the Wales Commonwealth Games £2, with a mintage of 588,500 – which is still pretty low considering there are 567,607,588 £2 coins in circulation in total!
Click here to read more about the 50p mintage figures >>
eBay Tracker
Our eBay Tracker, which is updated every 6 months, follows the secondary market selling price of the top 10 UK coins and banknotes. The eBay Tracker takes the last 9 sold prices achieved on eBay and gives you the median price achieved. By taking the median, rather than an average, we avoid one or two excessive prices skewing the figures.
Our latest eBay Tracker reveals that the 2002 N. Ireland Commonwealth Games £2 is selling for around £31.55 on the secondary market – that’s nearly 16 times its face value!
Read our latest eBay Tracker update >>
Don’t see your coin on the eBay Tracker? You can use our 6 Point Guide to valuing your coins to determine how much they could be worth.
Change Checker’s Scarcity Index
To give you a complete picture of how your coin compares to other £2 coins in circulation, we’ve combined the mintage information with other key pieces of information from the Change Checker Swap Centre.
Here’s our most recent Scarcity Index for £2 coins, with yet again the Commonwealth Games Northern Ireland coming in on top as the most scarce £2.
So how rare is your £2?
Hopefully these tools will enable you to get a more realistic picture of how rare your £2 is and how much it might be worth. Of course, these figures will change over time and as new £2 coins are released into circulation, so make sure you stay up to date with all our latest coin news and information.
We’d love to know if you’ve found any rare coins in your change recently, so let us know in the comments below!
If you’re interested in coin collecting, our Change Checker web app is completely free to use and allows users to:
– Find and identify the coins in their pocket
– Collect and track the coins they have
– Swap their spare coins with other Change Checkers
Sign up today at: www.changechecker.org/app