You could cash in on thousands of pounds just by sifting through your change

Rare minting errors on coins such as blank spaces, blemishes or misprinted digits can increase a coin's value 1,160 times over.

A bronze 20p has sold for £232 on eBay. The 1983 coin was spotted on the auction site earlier this month and went for a whopping 1,160 times its original price. It is thought to be one of the rarest coins around as it was accidentally printed on a copper-coloured blank.

The Royal Mint confirmed at the time that the bronze 20p was due to an “extremely rare” error.

The coin also went up for sale on the auction site in September for an even higher price of £328. However, there is no saying how much it will actually go for.

A rare error two pence coin from 1983 has sold for £1,100 on eBay. The coin was accidentally printed with the words “new pence” rather than “two pence”.

That year, The Royal mint had begun transforming the “new pence” coin into the “two pence”. This was because the UK switched to decimal currency in 1971, and this was chosen to avoid confusion with the old currency.

But a handful of coins were accidentally printed with the former name and are thought to have entered circulation during the transition.

Viral coin expert, who goes by @CoinCollectingWizard, on TikTok, has speculated: “If you find this rare coin you are looking at £1,000 plus.”

According to Changechecker.org, one coin sold for £1,100 in 2019. Some are listed on eBay right now for even higher prices - with one put on the site for £2,499,95.

However, others have sold for much less on the site, so take this with a pinch of salt.

One of the 2011 Olympic 50p coins has sold for an incredible £3,766 on eBay. The coin is part of the collector's set, which comes sealed in a purple and teal card.

Usually, the face of the swimmer is clearly visible on the coin rather than being indented by the waves. However, around 600 of the pennies were misprinted with wave lines covering the entire surface.

If you have the collector's version of the coin, there is a chance yours is the rare variant.

On August 4, one sold on eBay for a whopping £3,766. And the Britannia Coin Company is currently auctioning one for £3,995 - almost 8,000 times its face value.

Some Lord Kitchener £2 coins from 2014 could be worth 500 times their normal price if they have a specific fault.

Usually, every £2 coin has "TWO POUNDS" beneath the portrait of Queen Elizabeth II on the other side of the coin. But a small number of the coins were actually struck without this denomination.

It is unsure exactly how many there are out there - but they are thought to be very rare. According to @CoinCollectingWizard, the error pound coins can sell for anywhere between £900 or £1,000, and even more at auction.

The Britannia Coin Company has previously auctioned theirs for £1,200.

A coin seller has sold their five pence coin for an incredible 3,220 times its original price on eBay.

The seller, who has the username 'benjamin_888', noticed that the 5p, featuring the "Third Portrait" of the Queen and a crowned thistle on the reverse, had been printed on the wrong coin.

When advertising the listing, the seller predicted that it had actually been printed on a Fiji cent.

They said at the time: "Based on weight, metallurgy, diameter, designer of portrait - it would be a close match."

The coin went up for sale on August 16 with an opening bid of £1. It sold 10 days later for a whopping £161.78.

The buyer paid an additional £8 in postage costs to have the coin delivered to their door.

If you're anything like us, you've probably spent hours pouring over rare coin articles and doing calculations in your head to try and work out if any of the coins you have kicking around could be worth a small fortune.

Well, if you're planning on selling any rare coins on eBay, you'll want to make sure you're listing them for the right price.

If you're selling a rare coin for the first time, it can be tricky to know what to list it for. If you list it too low, you could be missing out on a good price, but if you list it too high, no one will want to buy it.

The best way to value a rare coin is to check previous sales of the same coin on eBay. This will