In January 2020 Downing Street announced that the coins would start entering circulation on 31 January 2020.

Gold and silver versions of the coins were announced for collectors. In December 2019 a new Brexit 50p coin was announced after the Conservative Party victory in the general election. A Treasury spokesman said that a coin to mark Brexit will still be produced but that it would enter circulation after the UK has left the EU. In late October 2019 it was announced that the coins would be recycled as the United Kingdom would not in fact leave the European Union as planned on 31 October 2019. In late October 2019, with increasing doubts that Brexit would actually happen on that date, the minting of the coins was 'paused'. A total of 10 million Brexit coins, each stamped with the date 31 October 2019, were planned to be minted. The minting of the Brexit coin was ordered by Sajid Javid.

The Brexit 50p coin is a commemorative fifty-pence British coin that was originally struck to mark the planned withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union on 31 October 2019.

Brextix potter 50p coin collection