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  1. 1Atlantic Salmon 50p (2023)Atlantic Salmon 50p (2023)This is the King's definitive 50p, the standard everyday design rather than a commemorative: an Atlantic salmon beside a pattern of interlinked letter Cs for Charles. Only 200,000 of the 2023-dated coins went into circulation, fewer than the famous Kew Gardens coin, and Change Checker's scarcity…0
  2. 2Kew Gardens 50p (2009)Kew Gardens 50p (2009)For years this was the benchmark rarity of the hunt. Christopher Le Brun's design shows the pagoda at Kew encircled by a vine, marking 250 years of the Royal Botanic Gardens, and just 210,000 were struck for circulation. Change Checker named it the scarcest 50p in circulation in February 2014, and…0
  3. 3London 2012 Olympic Football 50p (2011)London 2012 Olympic Football 50p (2011)The rarest of the 29 Olympic and Paralympic sport designs, with 1,125,500 struck for circulation, and the only one that teaches you something. Its designer, sports journalist Neil Wolfson, explained the offside rule in simple shapes: a circle for the ball, triangles for the attacking team and…0
  4. 4London 2012 Olympic Wrestling 50p (2011)London 2012 Olympic Wrestling 50p (2011)Two wrestlers locked in a throw in the middle of an arena, and only 4,000 more coins struck than the football design, at 1,129,500. It is the second-lowest mintage in the 29-coin sports series yet gets a fraction of the football coin's attention, so it is an easy one to forget you are missing. If a…0
  5. 5London 2012 Olympic Judo 50p (2011)London 2012 Olympic Judo 50p (2011)One judoka mid-throw over another, all bare feet and flying jacket, with 1,161,500 in circulation. It is the third of the four scarce Olympic designs: football, wrestling, judo and triathlon sit within 38,000 coins of one another, while every other sport in the set had more than 1.4 million struck,…0
  6. 6London 2012 Olympic Triathlon 50p (2011)London 2012 Olympic Triathlon 50p (2011)A runner, a cyclist and a swimmer share one coin, which makes it one of the busiest and best-looking designs in the sports series. At 1,163,500 it is the most plentiful of the four scarce Olympic coins, but only by a whisker. Behind those four, tennis is the next scarcest at 1,454,000, and the rest…0
  7. 7Peter Rabbit 50p (2018)Peter Rabbit 50p (2018)The Peter Rabbit to check twice. Emma Noble's design shows him munching on radishes, and only 1.4 million carry the 2018 date, against 9.7 million in 2016 and 19.9 million in 2017. All three circulating Peter Rabbits look similar at a glance, so this is the classic coin that hides in plain sight:…0
  8. 8Flopsy Bunny 50p (2018)Flopsy Bunny 50p (2018)The first UK coin to feature Flopsy Bunny, from the third Beatrix Potter series, and tied with the 2018 Peter Rabbit for the lowest mintage of any circulating Beatrix Potter 50p at 1.4 million. Unlike Peter, who appears on three dates, Flopsy has just this one circulating coin, so there is no date…0
  9. 9Mrs. Tittlemouse 50p (2018)Mrs. Tittlemouse 50p (2018)The tidy wood mouse from the 2018 Beatrix Potter set, with 1.7 million in circulation. That puts her just above Peter Rabbit and Flopsy Bunny from the same year and below every Beatrix Potter coin from 2016 and 2017, Jemima Puddle-Duck's 2.1 million included, so finishing the 2018 set is the real…0
  10. 10Sir Isaac Newton 50p (2017)Sir Isaac Newton 50p (2017)Aaron West's design turns physics into a neat abstract picture, the Sun at the shared focus of three planetary orbits, and only about 1.8 million were struck for circulation. Outside the Olympic and Beatrix Potter series, no commemorative 50p from 2010 to 2019 had a lower mintage, and it is easy to…0