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A £2 Lord Kitchener coin minted in 2014 is decided to secure up to £800 at an auction on Wednesday.

The coin is missing the phrases ‘Two Kilos’ on the reverse, an ultra uncommon error which has been authenticated by the Royal Mint.

This £2 coin became issued in 2014 to stamp 100 years for the rationale that outbreak of the First World War.

It capabilities a ‘Your Country Wants You’ recruiting poster with an image of Self-discipline Marshall Kitchener on the obverse.

There had been 5,720,000 of these coins that entered circulation, meaning it’ll additionally very smartly be slightly easy to stumble across one for your substitute.

Without the error, the coin is now not particularly vital.

Nonetheless, a tiny unknown sequence of the coins would maybe per chance additionally fetch entered circulation without the ‘Two Kilos’ denomination on the reverse, meaning the hunt is on for extra to be realized.

There fetch ultimate been two stories of these ‘error’ coins being pronounce in circulation per Trade Checker.

Lockdales Auctioneers officiated the sale of one support in March 2020 to the price of £500.

Now, such a coins is anticipated to secure between £600 to £800 at the Coin & Medal Sale at the RBW Auction being held from 10am on Wednesday 14 February.

2009 50p Kew Gardens coin

Additionally mighty at the auction are three fabled 2009 Kew Gardens 50p coins up for grabs at the auction.

The Kew Gardens 50p is among the most coveted coins, due to its shortage in circulation and as a commemorative coin. It ranks no 1 on Trade Checker’s 50p shortage index.

With factual 210,000 minted in 2009, these coins can promote north of £150 and as such, the majority were hoovered out of circulation and are within the hand of collectors.

The most tasty at the auction is a circulating version with an estimate of between £80-£120.

Two others are uncirculated variations. One has a mintage of 10,000 and has an estimate of £100-150, and the opposite had a mintage of fifty,000, with an estimate of £80-£120.  Both advance in a special presentation pack.

The coin capabilities a manufacture by Christopher Le Brun on the obverse celebrating the Royal Botanical Gardena, depicting the pagoda at Kew with a decorative vine twining in and across the tower and with the years ‘1759’ and 2002′ both aspect of the phrase ‘Kew’.

This coin became first released in 2009 to fetch a excellent time 250 years of the enduring West London landmark.

1990 20p error coin

A 1990 error 20p coin struck on a bronze 1p clean would maybe per chance additionally secure as primary as £300 at the auction.

It comes with a signed letter from the Files and Examine Supervisor at The Royal Mint Museum which confirms the particulars of this uncommon error coin.

It reads: ‘The fragment is of the unsuitable composition for a twenty pence fragment, underweight, and capabilities slightly rounded edges per the clean being infamous in size for the collar loyal by which it became struck.

‘It appears in this occasion that a bronze clean, per chance supposed for a 1p fragment, has been struck between 20p dies.’

2016 £1 error coin

A 2016 one pound coin is estimated to secure up to £80 when it goes below the hammer on Wednesday.

It has an error which capabilities two dates – 2016 on the obverse and 2017 micro engraved on the reverse.

The exiguous micro text across the rim, visible below magnification exhibits ‘2017’ slightly than 2016 as would maybe per chance in all probability be expected. The error became confirmed by the Royal Mint in 2017.

Trade Checker says there may be at the 2d no indication as to how slightly various these error coins were struck.