How well do you know your 50p coins?
We’re counting down to the 50th anniversary of the 50p and to celebrate this numismatic hero we’ve put together a special 50p coin quiz!
Have a go at the 50p quiz below to find out if you’re a numismatic nerd…
Have you joined the Definitive 50p Collecting Challenge?
The race is on to find and collect the definitive 50ps in your change in time for the 50th anniversary of the 50p!
Tried the quiz again and now I know which one I had wrong
Thanks for correcting the fault
No problem Vincent, glad it’s all working ok for you now.
90% isn’t too bad, think I need to up my knowledge a bit more
90%, pretty chuffed but not sure what one I got wrong ?♀️
None of the answer are right 2016/ 2015/ 2017 all had 50p released 2009/2010/2011 are right and so far 2018 as had no 50p released
Hi Ronnie, there were no Shield 50ps released in 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2016. We won’t know about 2018 until the mintage figures are revealed by The Royal Mint.
Tony Hudson Felt good with 30%
I got 90% unsure what I got wrong due to cut off of results. Was good though to challenge the brain ?
I got 100 percent great roll on more quizzes
90% I am proud to be a NERD
I could not find the pre. 1997 coin weight so I had a guess, Wrong!
Seems most people got 90% my self included I got the lowest mintage one wrong. Well still a nurd. Lol for those that can’t seem to see their answers scroll down.
Have just taken the quiz fantastic the result came back 100 percent I have all the 50p coins and all the Olympic as well.
question 2 should the answer be 2008 not 2011 which was shown as the anser
Hi Raymond, 2008 is the correct answer. I’m not sure why 2011 came up for you as it is definitely saved as 2008.
80%, which is more then i thought it’d be. Happy with that, given I’m a lot younger then the 50p. Good bit of fun that, thanks Change Checker ?
90% nerd ? Shame you can’t actually see your answers though
Fun quiz. 80% so I got a couple wrong, but unable to find out which ones. Perhaps in future you could give all the correct answers so we can learn from it? Looking forward to the next one.
I only managed a 60% score, but that’s not bad considering my collecting has only been for a short number of years.
It was a good quiz to do and I never felt the need to check any book for an answer.
Not flipping happy i got 80% and i thought i was a nerd ? maybe just a proud change checker then like u said ??? good fun and yeah like Ben said couldn’t see where i went wrong.. Nevermind
Please let us se our results
Hi James, we’re trying to find a way for the results to be displayed properly as they seem to be cropped off at the moment. Really sorry for the inconvenience.
Got 90% but can’t find which one I got wrong but still good fun
70%, happy with that. Funny to think I’m as old as the first 50p issued ? Here’s to another 50 years of collecting ?
Yea am a nerd 90%
Nice fun quiz and pleased to get “A Numismatic Nerd” score – not surprising given that I’ve been collecting since the 60’s and remember the original large 50p replacing the ten shilling note.
Congratulations Jim! Welcome to the Numismatic Nerd club!
I go 90% not bad for me
Well done Julie!
Nice bit of fun in the morning, 80% not too bad! Would have been good to see where I went wrong, (guesses the weight question!) I could only see the results of the first two questions at the end of the quiz. Well done though, I like this! More of the same please 🙂
Great score, well done Ben! We’ll be sure to create some more quizzes to test your numismatic knowledge!
I got 100% only been collecting 50p’s since last March. All I’m missing is 2009 Kew
Good quiz I got 100 percent very happy I have all 50 p coins
100% here. I’m thinking I need help ? but would like to see something like this for the rest of the uk coins for us nerds. Well done to everyone that’s participated
Only 6 / 10
The answers stop at question 2, what’s the point ?
Still a good score Stuart! Really sorry that the answers aren’t showing, unfortunately we’re having issues with the third party software.
We have made a change to the quiz so that hopefully your answers will now show!