2:35pm Monday 6th July 2009
By News reporter
A TWENTY pence piece proved to be a lot more valuable when it was dropped into a collection box.
Staff at Orpington-based charity Harris HospisCare spotted the coin when sorting through donations and put it on an internet auction site where it raised £265 for the charity.
It sparked a lot of interest because it is one of the around 200,000 20p coins which were produced without a date due to an error at the Royal Mint.
The charity’s fundraising manager Christine Davies said: “We were delighted to find the 20p in a collection box.
“[Raising £265] is almost unbelievable really and we were delighted to achieve that figure.”
The money raised will be used to help the charity care for patients in their homes.
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