1807 2 Pound Coin

Since the first very bi-metallic £2 coins were released back in 1998, there have been over 40 UK £2 coins in circulation! Many of these coins commemorate key moments in Britain’s history and heritage.

But with so many in circulation, how can you tell which are the ones to look for?

Answer (1 of 6): There were several different two pound coins created in 2007 to mark the 200 year anniversary of the abolition of the slave trade. First of all there was the standard version, which was made generally available from banks and post offices, which was put into ordinary circulation. We today look at some rare £2 coins with mint errors and a crazy mint error coin that could be worth a bitEDIT:I now understand only the last one might be a. The reverse is by David Gentleman and shows the date ‘1807’ with it’s zero made up of a chain link. On the coins issued in the annual BU and proof sets the initials ‘DG’ appear next to the ‘1807’ (first reverse image shown above) and the silver coloured part is smooth. 1807 2 pound coin. The reverse design of the 2007 coin was designed by David Gentleman. Surrounding the central design of the year 1807 and a chain, the coin features the words ‘AN ACT FOR THE ABOLITION OF THE SLAVE TRADE’, with the year of issue – 2007 – at the bottom. The coin in question was released in 2007 by the Royal Mint to mark the 200th anniversary of the 1807 Abolition Of The Slave Trade. There were 8.5million of them minted. But, the good news for collectors is that some of them were made with an error.

Luckily for you, we’ve done the leg work and compiled a number of resources to help you determine how rare your £2 coin is and how much it might be worth.

Mintages

A key tool for working out how rare your coin might be is our £2 mintage chart. Generally speaking, the lower the mintage, the rarer the coin and the harder it will be to find in circulation.

Here are the most up to date mintage charts for UK £2 coins in circulation, with the UK’s rarest circulation £2, the 2002 Commonwealth Games Northern Ireland sat in top spot with the lowest mintage figures of just 485,500.

We haven’t been able to include the 2017 Jane Austen £2 or the WW1 Aviation £2 coins in our charts yet as the mintage figures are yet to be released, however you can view our previous £2 mintage figures here. There hasn’t been any feedback from Change Checkers finding these coins in circulation but we’re hoping they’ll turn up soon and do let us know if you find any in your change!

eBay Tracker

To help you determine the value of your coin, we’ve created our eBay Tracker, which takes the last 9 sold prices achieved on eBay and gives you the median price achieved (rounded to the nearest 50p). By taking the median, rather than an average, we avoid skewing created by one or two excessive prices achieved.

Here’s the top 5 highest selling £2 coins from our eBay Tracker, with the Commonwealth Games Northern Ireland sitting on top spot as the highest selling £2, followed by the Commonwealth Games England and Wales respectively. In 4th place is the 2017 Jane Austen £2. Mintage figures for this coin have not yet been released and collectors don’t seem to have found the coin in their change, which seems to have made the coin very popular to buy on eBay, but will you wait to find this coin when it enters circulation?

Scarcity Index

To give you a complete picture of how your coin compares to other £2 coins in circulation, we have combined the mintage information with two other key pieces of information to provide the Change Checker Scarcity Index:

• How many of each design are listed as “collected” by Change Checkers, indicating the relative ease of finding a particular coin.
• The number of times a design has been requested as a swap over the previous 3 months, showing the current level of collector demand.

Here’s our most recent Scarcity Index for £2 coins, with yet again the Commonwealth Games Northern Ireland coming in on top as the most scarce £2. Where does your £2 rank on the Scarcity Index?

Hopefully these tools will enable you to get a more realistic picture of how rare your £2 is and how much it might be worth. Of course, these figures will change in time as the latest £2 coins are released into circulation, so stay up to date with all our latest coin news and information.

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