THE Royal Mint has revealed the rarest coins released in 2018 – and it's the alphabet 10p coins that come out on top.
The coins celebrate the best of British with designs including James Bond, a game of cricket, fish and chips and a cuppa.
They were first launched into circulation last year, when the Royal Mint released 220,000 of each one, today's figures show.
The coin maker then also re-released another 2.1million coins in February this year.
It's been revealed that the Royal Mint also released 1.4million Peter Rabbit and Flopsy Bunny 50p coins each into circulation in 2018 – find the full list of coins in the box below.
We had a look online to see which alphabet coins are worth the most by looking at the highest price circulated ones recently sold for on eBay.
You should consider these figures more as a guide to what you can expect to get as it's not guaranteed.
K, for King Arthur, came out on top – you can expect to fetch up to £5.50 for one on eBay.
The next best sellers are C and Z – for cricket and zebra crossing – which both sold for £4.20 recently.
If you manage to collect all 26 of the alphabet coins then they could be worth just over £65.18.
Of course, uncirculated versions of the coin sell for the most as their near-mint condition makes them even more valuable to collectors.
But they will also cost you more to get hold of – you can buy uncirculated versions directly from the Royal Mint for £2 each, or you can buy the whole set for £52.
A-Z of Britain in coins – what do they represent and how much are they worth?
THE coins have been designed to represent the best of Britain, with 10 of them decided by a public vote.
Here's what each one represents and how much you can expect to sell a circulated one on eBay:
- A – Angel of the North, £4.20
- B – Bond… James Bond, £4
- C – Cricket, £4.20
- D – Double Decker Bus, £2.70
- E – English Breakfast, £2.04
- F – Fish & Chips, 90p
- G – Greenwich Mean Time, £2.20
- H – Houses of Parliament, £1.45
- I – Ice-Cream Cone, £2
- J – Jubilee, £2.90
- K – King Arthur, £5.50
- L – Loch Ness Monster, £3.30
- M – Mackintosh, £1.65
- N – National Health Service, £2.35
- O – Oak Tree, £2.45
- P – Post Box, £1.30
- Q – Queuing, £1.20
- R – Robin, £2
- S – Stonehenge, £2
- T – Teapot, £2.20
- U – Union Flag, £2.20
- V – Village, £4
- W – World Wide Web, £1.50
- X – X Marks the Spot, £1
- Y – Yeoman, £3.11
- Z – Zebra Crossing, £4.20
Total: £65.18
Expert Colin Bellamy from Coin Hunter reckons that the circulated coins won't rocket in value in the next year, although it's possible to get more than just 10p for the coin.
But he told The Sun that press coverage and today's mintage figures could mean that demand will rise, and the prices will then follow.
If so, it's worth keeping an eye out for the letter A, for angel of the north, as the price of this could increase the most, he estimated.
Mr Bellamy says this coin is popular because it's the first one in the alphabet.
The Royal Mint coins released into circulation in 2018
These are the other coins released into circulation and their mintage figures last year:
- 50p Peter Rabbit (Beatrix Potter): 1,400,000
- 50p Flopsy Bunny (Beatrix Potter): 1,400,000
- 50p Mrs Tittlemouse (Beatrix Potter): 1,700,000
- 50p Tailor of Gloucester (Beatrix Potter): 3,900,000
- 50p Paddington at the Station: 5,001,000
- 50p Paddington at the Palace: 5,901,000
- 50p Representation of the People: 9,000,000
- £1 Nations of the Crown: 130,560,000
When the alphabet 10ps first launched, the demand was so fierce that the Royal Mint website crashed.
Ahead of the release and with the help of a letter-expert, we predicted that the letters E, T, I, O, A and S would be worth the most and we weren't far off.
Today's marks the 50th anniversary of the 50p coin – here are the most valuable and rarest ones.
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