I made £1,000 and paid for my car insurance by selling three 50p coins – here’s how you can do it too
SAVVY collector Hannah Webb made almost £1,000 to pay for her car insurance by selling three 50p coins.
The veterinary nurse, who lives in the Cotswolds with her fiance Craig, 26, has been collecting since childhood.
The rarest coin she sold was from 2003, one of the first Isle of Man 50p pieces to feature The Snowman, for which she got £450.
She also sold two more 50p pieces from the Isle of Man which featured different scenes from the 12 Days of Christmas, making £250 on each one.
But she still has the very rare Kew Gardens 50p, which she was given as a present in 2009 when it first came out on the 250th anniversary of the London botanical garden.
She also owns the full set of 2012 Olympic coins and each of the subsequent Snowman designs that have been issued since the one she sold.
Hannah, 24, has built up her collection largely by buying new releases from the Royal Mint and she says you never know which will be the rarest in years to come.
She said: “If you keep them long enough their value will only go up.
“I think all of my coins have some profit in them, albeit not all £450.”