has admitted she’s considering spending more than £1,000 for a 50p coin of .
A crowned portrait of the monarch will feature on which includes a 50p and a £5 coin in the collection, to celebrate the upcoming coronation.
The effigy, which was designed by artist and sculptor Martin Jennings, depicts Charles wearing the Tudor Crown, with the 50p coin also featuring his cypher and crown to symbolise him being inside the abbey where he is to be crowned.
The 50p coins, which feature a drawing of Westminster Abbey by The Royal Mint’s resident designer Natasha Jenkins, will be available to buy from 9am on April 24 for between £11 and £1,220, while the £5 coins are priced between £14.50 and £2,995.
And while that seems an immense amount to spend, , who was standing in for hosts and with Craig Doyle, admitted she’d be keen to add it to her collection.
She said on Thursday’s programme: ‘I collect 50ps, I’ve collected 50ps for years!’
Despite hearing the coins aren’t ‘cheap’, she said: ‘I’m always on the royal mint. Always’.
‘It’s not tender is it, it’s just a thing,’ journalist Tom Swarbick replied, but Josie was adamant: ‘You can’t, but it’s a beautiful thing to have in your collection’.
Josie then revealed she has ‘books’ of 50p coins in her collection, saying: ‘Books and books and books of them!’
She added: ‘If you’re a collector, you’re a collector,’ while Craig joked about her having £50 worth of coins.
Josie jokingly added that while she’s keen for the 5p, the £77,000 one kilogram solid gold prove coin is ‘a little bit out of my budget’.
‘But I do like a 50p!’
Five million 50ps are also set to enter circulation later in 2023 featuring the original, uncrowned effigy of Charles by Jennings and the commemorative Westminster Abbey drawing by Jenkins.
This follows the five million memorial 50ps that entered circulation after the King ascended the throne.
The coronation is now just weeks away, , after the accession took place in September last year.
A chaotic rehearsal for the coronation has taken place, with insiders suggesting there have been rows over the coronation route, confusion over tiaras, seating plans still yet to be arranged, and the rehearsal itself overrunning.
There have also been plenty of rumours surrounding the guest list, with .
announced the news yesterday saying it was ‘pleased to confirm’ the Duke of Sussex will be at on May 6.
But the Duchess will stay home in California with one-year-old Lilibet and Archie, whose fourth birthday is on the same day as the ceremony.
This Morning airs weekdays from 10am on ITV1.
