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Examples of the standard reverse designs minted until 2008. Designed by Christopher Ironside (£2 coin is not shown).. The standard circulating coinage of the United Kingdom, British Crown Dependencies and British Overseas Territories is denominated in pennies and pounds sterling (symbol "£", commercial GBP), and ranges in value from one penny sterling to two pounds.
Bullion / collectors' coins issued in 2018 to 2021; 1 troy ounce of silver, with a value of £2, or 10 troy ounces, valued at £10. [8] Twenty pounds: £20 Introduced in 2013 as a commemorative coin. [9] Fifty pounds: £50 Introduced in 2015 as a commemorative coin. [10] One hundred pounds: £100 Introduced in 2015 as a commemorative coin. [11]
2008: Five pound coin marking his 60th birthday. [7] As he is the current Monarch, his portrait will appear on the obverse of all coins, starting with a 2022 50p commemorating the death of Queen Elizabeth II. Sir Winston Churchill (1874–1965) 1965: Crown marking his death. [8] [9] 2015: Five pound coin marking the 50th anniversary of his ...
The customary design on coins is a portrait of a notable individual (living and/or deceased) on the obverse or reverse, unless the subject is depicted on both sides of the coin. Elizabeth II, former Queen of the Commonwealth realms and their territories and dependencies, features on more coins than any other person. [1]
The brass threepence, or "threepenny bit", was a twelve-sided British coin equivalent to 1 ⁄ 80 of a pound. Struck between 1937 and 1967, with a final issue for collectors dated 1970, it was the first British coin that was not round.
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On this basis Herbert A. Seaby (1898–1979) wrote the Standard Catalogue of the Coins of Great Britain and Ireland, during the war, which was again published biennially from 1945 onwards and illustrated with line drawings of the coins. Standard Catalogue of British Coins: Vol. I. England and United Kingdom, over 60 years from 1st edition ...
Matthew Dent (born in 1981 in Bangor, Wales) is a British graphic designer.His designs were selected for the new reverse sides of seven coins of the pound sterling, after a competition open to the public by the Royal Mint on 2 April 2008.