Spellbinding special feature on the FIRST UK Harry Potter 50ps drives demand

A collection of UK Harry Potter 50p coins kicked off in 2022, each of which featuring a spellbinding lenticular feature!

Celebrating 25 years since the publication of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, the designs of these 50p coins are inspired by Jim Kay’s 2015 immersive illustrations.

The first coin in the series featured the world’s best-loved wizard…

UK’s FIRST Harry Potter 50p

2022 UK Harry Potter 50p, featuring unique lenticular feature.

This was the UK’s first 50p to celebrate Harry Potter and excitingly, it also featured another never-before-seen special feature…

For the first time ever, The Royal Mint created a lenticular feature on a UK 50p. When you tilt the coin, the iconic lightning bolt replaces the number 25.

Lightning bolt / 25 Lenticular feature on UK Harry Potter 50p. Shown in titled GIF.
Lightning bolt / 25 Lenticular feature on UK Harry Potter 50p.

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The Harry Potter 50p series continued to include the 2022 Hogwarts Express 50p, the 2023 Professor Dumbledore 50p and the 2023 Hogwarts School 50p.

UK 50p issued marking the 100th anniversary of the BBC

The BBC has broadcasted some of the world’s most exciting highs over the past 100 years but has also had the hard task of delivering some of the biggest lows.

And to mark this centenary milestone, The Royal Mint have issued a UK 50p with a design that symbolises the BBC’s global impact.

2022 UK 100th Anniversary of the BBC 50p

2022 100 Years of BBC 50p
2022 100 Years of BBC 50p

This coin has been developed in partnership with the BBC and designed by Henry Gray, resulting in a fantastic tribute to the Broadcasting Corporation.

Struck to a Brilliant Uncirculated quality, this coin is the perfect way to mark 100 years of broadcasting.

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Radio and television have revolutionised our everyday, providing us with important news and endless entertainment.

In 2021, we saw John Logie Baird, ‘The Father of the Television’, celebrated on a UK 50p coin – and quite rightly so, because where would we be without our TVs?

2021 John Logie Baird 50p. Showing a television mast and concentric circles depicting electronic waves. With the inscription: 'John Logie Baird Television Pioneer - 1888 1946'.
Queen Elizabeth II's portrait features on the obverse.
2021 John Logie Baird 50p.

The design features key milestones from Baird’s life, presented between lines of transmission.

But this isn’t the first coin to showcase a design with waves of transmission. The Royal Mint marked the 100th anniversary of wireless transmission in 2001 with a UK £2, pictured below.

2001 Wireless Transmission £2 coin reverse design.
2001 Wireless Transmission £2.

In 1901, Guglielmo Marconi, an Italian physicist, succeeded in sending the first radio transmission across the Atlantic Ocean.

The message – simply containing the Morse code signal for the letter ‘s’ – travelled more than 2,000 miles from Poldhu in Cornwall to Newfoundland in Canada and won him worldwide fame and a Nobel Prize in physics in 1909.

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Your top Winnie the Pooh 50p revealed!

Now that the Winnie the Pooh 50p Collection has concluded, with the 2022 UK Winnie the Pooh and Friends 50p, we wanted to know what your favourite design is!

And the results are in!

Vote Results

Coming out on top spot is the 2022 Winnie the Pooh and Friends 50p, taking 31% of the votes!

Issued in 2022, this coin features a design of Winnie the Pooh, Tigger, Piglet, and Eeyore, just as we remember them from A. A. Milne’s original books. The charming original illustrations from E. H. Shepard feature on all the 50p coins in the Winnie the Pooh coin collection.

These 50ps have been some of the most popular and in-demand coins of recent years, with thousands of collectors missing out on securing them in precious metal specifications.

Furthermore, the 2020 Winnie the Pooh, Christopher Robin, and Piglet 50p coins are no longer available at The Royal Mint, in any specifications.

Change Checker has a limited number of the 2020 Winnie the Pooh 50p coins remaining for collectors.

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