Check your change for 5 rare coins including one that could be worth £127,000

The next time you go to the shop and get a few 2p coins in change, don't just throw them into a drawer or leave them in your pocket for years - as . One rare 2p coin from 1983 that features the words 'New Pence' could be worth 500 times its face value, so if you've got it in your collection, you're in luck!

50p pieces are a little more useful than 2p ones when it comes to getting them in your change, but you shouldn't hurry to spend them, as . The rare London 2012 coin features a printing mistake where water lines were drawn over the swimmer's face, making it a coin collectors desperately want.

Sometimes, when you get spare change, you'll notice a foreign coin or something super old that is no longer used in the UK. If you ever get handed along with your change, don't think it's useless,