Rare 20p coin fetches €9,000 at auction

Before you go throwing out all those old coins with your 1c and 2c pieces, you might want to know that somebody paid nearly €9,000 for a rare 1985 20p at the weekend.

In an auction full of rare collectable items related to the 1916 Rising, the trial coin attracted the highest bid.

The hammer fell at €7,200 in Whyte’s auction rooms in Dublin on Saturday but, after adding buyers’ fees and taxes, the final bill comes to around €8,970.