Ebay, an auction website, is home to a huge number of valuable coins.
The site has a rare Charles Darwin 200th anniversary £2 coin listed for £1,000.
The seller, jacquelinbarret2, is based in the United Kingdom.
She has received four five star product ratings for items she has previously sold on the platform.
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One wrote, “Excellent quality item”, while another put “Just what I required”.
The 2009 coin, which features Charles Darwin, is rare and of great value among collectors.
It features a bearded Darwin staring into the face of a chimpanzee.
A listing on the Royal Mint website gives us a clue as to why the coin is so valued.
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This 2009 commemorative £2 coin celebrates the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin as well as the 150th anniversary of the publication of On the Origin of Species
It reads: “This 2009 commemorative £2 coin celebrates the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin as well as the 150th anniversary of the publication of On the Origin of Species.
“The reverse of the coin, designed by Suzie Zamit, features a profile portrait of Charles Darwin and a chimpanzee. “
The coin is said to have a mintage of 3,903,000, and the edge reads: “On the origin of the species 1858”.
Last week, an “ultra rare” £1 coin sold for £5,000 on the same site.
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It was a Gibraltar £1 coin in a commemorative version.
The coin celebrates the discovery of a neanderthal skull on Gibraltar and features an image of the skull on one side of the coin.
Over the top of the skull it says ‘one pound’ and underneath it reads ‘discovery of neanderthal skull in gibraltar’.
The coin circulated between the years 2009 and 2013 and is the same round shape as the old one pound coin.
