Fev's Full Set of Olympic 2012 50p Coins in a Collectors Folder. All Coins are in BUNC (Brilliant Uncirculated) Condition

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Could YOU claim pension credit? Claims have spiked as bills soar, so what are the rules - and why might you get refused? In 2009, former BBC television show Blue Peter ran a competition to design an Olympic coin some three years ahead of the event held in London. Andy Murray actually went on to win A Gold Medal for Team GB in the Men’s Singles on grass courts in the 2012 event celebrated on the coin. Credit: Royal Mint Triathlon 50p

But Philip Mussell, of Coin News magazine, believes there are likely to have been a few thousand minted. There are 29 different sports designs covered in the Olympic Games 50p range released in 2011 to commemorate the London 2012 Olympics. The coin design depicts beach volleyball with the net stretching across the coin and female contestants reaching up towards the volleyball which doubles as a sun in the sky with rays appearing to shine from within it. Credit: The Royal Mint Weightlifting 50p Ben Ainslie continued this trend in 2012 winning a gold medal for Team GB in the Finn sailing event.

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The collection was available to the general public with varying circulations for each coin. As a result, some coins are more sought-after by collectors than others. The coin design features 4 images of a Basketball player in 4 positions rising as if taking a slam dunk.

Gymnastics is another event that has been at every Games since the first of the modern era in 1896. Women have been competing since the Amsterdam 1928 Olympics.The coin design depicts two contesting fencers, one in a deep lunge towards the other who looks to be making a strike of their own. Credit: The Royal Mint Football 50p

You might have heard the term ‘mint condition’. This relates to something in perfect condition that was made with no flaws. BU coins should retain this quality. As you can see in the dynamic coin design, one wrestler has up-ended another. Credit: Royal Mint What is the Olympic 50p Coins Full Set Value?

The withdrawn Aquatics ‘minting error’ Olympic 50p

The outline of a weightlifter starting a lift, with the London 2012 logo above and the denomination 50 PENCE below. Of the Olympic 50p series, the Football design had the smallest release, with just 1.125m coins in circulation. The Wrestling, Judo and Triathlon coins were also minted in small numbers, with less than 1.17m of each of them available. Team GB finished top of the medal table for Equestrian events, with 5 medals in total, 3 of which were gold.

Men’s rowing was first introduced as an Olympic event in 1900 after being cancelled in 1896 due to poor weather conditions. Nicola Adams won gold for Team GB in the women’s Flyweight. (She also went on to win Gold again in 2016) A design showing the pagoda, encircled by a vine and accompanied by the dates 1759 and 2009, with the word KEW at the base of the pagoda.The coin design depicts a Rhythmic gymnastics routine with a prominent swirling ribbon rising upwards making up the larger portion of the image. Credit: The Royal Mint Handball 50p A figure of Britannia, seated beside a lion, with a shield resting against her right side, holding a trident in her right hand and an olive branch in her left hand, with the figure 50 below and the inscription FIFTY PENCE above.