{"id":369003,"date":"2025-08-24T05:22:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T05:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/369003\/"},"modified":"2025-08-24T05:22:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T05:22:10","slug":"on-this-day-rare-king-charles-50p-sells-for-more-than-153","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/369003\/","title":{"rendered":"On this day: Rare King Charles 50p sells for more than \u00a3153"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  The first coins with\u00a0King Charles&#8217;\u00a0official\u00a0portrait\u00a0began entering circulation in the UK back in December 2022.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Late in 2023, the Royal Mint unveiled eight\u00a0new\u00a0coins\u00a0designed to reflect the\u00a0King\u2019s\u00a0passion for conservation and the natural world.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  These coins, new at the time, feature\u00a0the following designs:\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>\n      1p \u2013 Hazel dormouse\n    <\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>\n      2p &#8211; Red Squirrel\u00a0\n    <\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>\n      5p \u2013 Oak tree leaf\n    <\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>\n      10p \u2013 Capercaillie\n    <\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>\n      20p \u2013 Puffin\n    <\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>\n      50p\u00a0\u2013 Atlantic salmon\n    <\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>\n      \u00a31 \u2013 Bees\n    <\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>\n      \u00a32 \u2013 National flowers\n    <\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\n  The first of these\u00a0commemorative\u00a0coins\u00a0\u2013 officially known as definitives \u2013 to be released was the 50p featuring the Atlantic Salmon design, entering circulation in November 2023.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  This time last year, these\u00a050p coins were beginning to sell\u00a0for hundreds of pounds, with one selling on eBay for\u00a0\u00a3153.48.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Another one of these King Charles coins sold on eBay\u00a0the previous month for \u00a3135.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The Atlantic Salmon\u00a050p had\u00a0been labelled by\u00a0Copes Coins as one of the\u00a0&#8220;most talked about coins in the coin community&#8221;, according to The Sun.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  A\u00a0Copes Coins spokesperson\u00a0said:\u00a0&#8220;The current mintage rumours estimate that only 500,000 of these coins were released into general circulation in November 2023.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;Since then, these coins\u00a0have become much harder to find in your change, and prices on online marketplaces such as eBay and Amazon have continued to rise, fuelling the speculation that the 2023 Atlantic Salmon 50p is to become one of the rarest coins to enter circulation in the last 15 years.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  This story was first reported on by Patrick Glover on August 24, 2024.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The first coins with\u00a0King Charles&#8217;\u00a0official\u00a0portrait\u00a0began entering circulation in the UK back in December 2022. Late in 2023, the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":369004,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[7709,7730,7731,1760,7710,519],"class_list":{"0":"post-369003","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-royals","8":"tag-british-royal-family","9":"tag-charles","10":"tag-charles-iii","11":"tag-king-charles","12":"tag-royal-families","13":"tag-royal-family"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115082070971625987","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/369004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}