ONE of the UK's rarest 50p coins has sold for over 200 times its face value at auction. The Kew Gardens fifty pence piece fetched £107 in a recent auction on eBay, receiving a total of 15 bids.

It was originally released in 2009 to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the opening of Kew Gardens in London. Its reverse side features the famous Chinese Pagoda at Kew, encircled by a leafy ...