£2 coin error could fetch over £120 for collectors

A specific £2 coin error could be worth over £120 to collectors. The 2016 Shakespeare’s tragedies coin, featuring a skull, may have an incorrect edge inscription that reads “for king and country” instead of the correct phrase. Coin expert Coin Collector UK highlighted this error on TikTok, urging people to check their change. The error coins are rare, with some selling for £123 at auction, while others have fetched between £30 and £65 online. The correct version of the coin, with the inscription “what a piece of work is a man,” is only worth its face value of £2. The Royal Mint mistakenly produced the error coins during minting in 2016.