2016-06-16 Thu

A rare silver two pence Royal Mint error coin was sold for 1,350 pounds to the Westminster Collection! The owner of the coin was piling up the 10p coins, when the error coin was spotted.

It was initially considered to be a fake but the Royal British Legion volunteers in Wiltshire took it to a bank from where it was sent to the mint. The mint later confirmed that it is an error coin indeed by using X-ray fluorescence spectrometry.

Through the verification process, it was discovered that unlike the usual copper-plated steel coin, this one was made of nickel-plated steel, a base metal planchet that is used for minting 10 pence coins.