The 'extremely rare' £1 coin error worth £2,500 - but you need a microscope to see it

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Brits are being encouraged to inspect their change for a rare coin that could potentially be worth thousands of pounds. The £1 coin contains a very rare error - but you might need a microscope to spot it.

A coin expert highlighted the specific £1 coin to look for in a TikTok video for budding coin collectors. In the video, the collector, known as 'thecoincollectoruk', is seen holding what seems to be a regular pound coin.

He tells viewers they could get £2,500 for finding a 12-sided coin with a specific error, reports the Mirror. READ MORE: The best time to see the Geminid meteor shower in the UK tonight "You can see when we flip this over on the obverse [heads] side, this is a 2016 version of the £1 coin," he said. "However, some were made with the micro-lettering on the reverse side with the date 2017.

This is an extremely rare error - we only know of one that's been sold to a buyer in Spain, which fetched for £2,500." A close-up of the date displaying 2017 in micro-lettering is then shown in the video.