Brits have been urged to scour their wallets and coin jars for a rare 50 pence piece worth around 100 times its face value.

People are being encouraged to rummage through their change as a rare 50 pence piece could be worth a ... Last year, The Sun ...

People are being encouraged to rummage through their change as a rare 50 pence piece could ... where one of these coins fetched £40 - a whopping 80 times its face value of 50p.

The Britannia Coin Company said it gets lots of calls about fifty pence pieces from customers, in particular the 1997 Britannia 50p coin which has been sold for £10,000 on eBay. But there are ...