New British Coin Designs

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The new designs have been chosen via an open competition which was widely publicised in the national media in August 2005 and attracted 4,000 entries. The winning designer is 26-year-old Matthew Dent, originally from Bangor who now lives and works in London as a graphic designer.

After exploring a number of different options, Matthew Dent finally developed the heraldic theme, taking the greatest heraldic device ever used on coinage – the Royal Arms.

As you can see in the image to the right, the Shield of the Royal Arms has been given a contemporary treatment and its whole has been cleverly split among all six denominations from the 1p to the 50p, with the £1 coin displaying the heraldic element in its entirety. This is the first time that a single design has been used across a range of United Kingdom coins.

The new designs will enter circulation gradually throughout the year. It is normal practice for banks to order coins from the Royal Mint to satisfy public demand, which fluctuates over the course of the year. The current coin designs will remain in circulation and as legal tender for the foreseeable future. - Source

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I must say that these coins look really good. Puzzles FTW! Oh, and those of you that have already seen these, please don't be like Hutch and just complain ;). The BBC News article can be found here.

But now when I have one coin, i'll feel like it's not complete without all the other pieces. Atleast it's a sign we're not joining the euro for awhile, yay!

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please don't be like Hutch and just complain

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I saw that they were doing a new cion design on the news but it was the 1st of April and I thought it would be a fool story.

Turned out their fools story was some flying penguins!

I quite like them, apart from the 2 and 10 pence coins, the square within a circle looks quite ugly...

I like them all, except the £1, 10p, and 2p. I agree with Chazlene about the 10p and 2p, and the £1 looks too bland around the edges.

10 and 2p look refreshing!