Check your change for this £2 coin with an error worth more than 60 times its face value

A coin expert is calling on Britons to sift through their spare change for a rare £2 coin with a potential value exceeding £120 - if it has this unusual misprint.

It's the 2016 Shakespeare's tragedies £2 piece, distinguishable by a skull depiction, that's catching collectors' eyes due to a minting mistake.

An expert going by the moniker Coin Collector UK shared their insights on TikTok, encouraging enthusiasts to examine the coin's edge wording closely. "£123 if you find this Shakespeare £2 coin," they remarked.

"So what you want to be checking for on your Shakespeare's tragedies coin is the edge inscription."

Apparently, some of these coins were erroneously struck with an incorrect inscription. The intended quote is "what a piece of work is a man", however, the flawed specimens display "for king and country" instead, reports the Mirror.

Elaborating, they said: "It should say around the edge, 'what a piece of work is a man', like this one.

"However, in 2016 when these were minted, the Royal Mint actually messed up and ended up producing some with the edge inscription from the army centenary coin, which you can see here. The error coin says around the edge, 'for king and country,'" the expert continued.

"Like with most error coins this is quite hard to value as they don't come up for sale too often. One however, did sell a few months ago at auction that went for £123. Others have sold on eBay for the £30 mark and another one also sold for £65.

"They are definitely one worth looking out for in your change. If yours says 'for king and country' on the edge, then you found the rear error version.

"This one, which was the circulating version with the correct inscription, unfortunately is only worth £2 as it has a mintage of