YOU could be missing out on hundreds of pounds of free cash by not checking your change for rare and valuable coins.

Brits are being encouraged to check their change for a coin from 2009 that could fetch up to £150. This 50 pence piece is ...

A coin collector is telling people to spend a 50p which might be sitting in their pockets after he discovered the Queen ...

They must feature specific errors to be particularly valuable ...

You might have this 'valuable' 50p coin sitting in your pocket and the great thing is that there's thousands of them in ...

A rare Royal Mint 50p coin has sold for more than £113 on eBay in Southampton, with there being a few coin designs worth a ...

The rare coin, which has previously been sold for more than £500, is still believed to be in circulation ...

This coin needs to feature a specific error to be particularly valuable ...

The rare Royal Mint 50p coin has sold for more than £200 on eBay, and there are thousands more out there that could be worth a small fortune ...

Recently, the coin sold for £125 on eBay following a mini bidding war, selling for around 250 times its face value. Until recently it was the rarest 50p in circulation, but it has since been overtaken ...

Just about all of the coins you will come across in your lifetime are worth what they say they are worth — a half dollar is worth 50 cents, a quarter is worth 25 cents, and on down the line. In some ...