Single British mother finds coins worth $22,000
A lucky British mother has found two rare, undated 20 pence coins, which are worth upwards of $22,000, reports the Sunday Mercury.
The two coins were mistakenly minted without dates by the Royal Mint in 2008 and are part of a limited batch of coins still in circulation. Last year, one rare dateless coin was sold on eBay for the equivalent of $11,000.
Sabrina Hussain managed to find two of the rare coins over the past year. She lucked upon one that she found at the bottom of her purse. Meanwhile, she received the second coin as change for a losing scratchcard she purchased at a local grocery store.
“I couldn’t believe it, the scratchcard didn’t win, but I’d got another rare coin! It was amazing,” she told the site. “I went back into the store and told all the staff who were gutted that they hadn’t found it. But I was over the moon.”
Another lucky Londoner recently found a stash of 80 rare Double Eagle coins beneath a garden in the Western section of the city, reported the Metro UK.