Minted
April 4th, 2008 | by mj |The Royal Mint has revealed the new designs for our nations coinage.
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.
I’d have thought this was a perfect opportunity to do away with the 1p and 2p coins. And then pass a law stating that all pricing has to be in multiples of 5 pence. And anyone who still kept on with pricing things like 11.99 and 1.98 would therefore be subverting the coin of the Realm and put in the Tower.
That would sort the men from the boys.