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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
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.
If you want to secure your 2022 UK 100th Anniversary of the BBC CERTIFIED BU 50p today for £12.99 (+p&p), click here >>
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?
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.
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.
Have you got either of these interesting coins in your collection? Let us know in the comments!
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UK £2 coin celebrates the Pioneer of the Telephone!
Where would we be today without our phones? From the latest smartphone all the way to the very first harmonic telegraph, these devices shape the way we communicate and connect with one another.
It’s thanks to Alexander Graham Bell and his ingenious innovation that we’re able to enjoy this technology today. So, what better tribute could there be than to celebrate his life and legacy with a UK £2?
The 2022 UK Alexander Graham Bell £2 was originally issued in the 2022 Annual Coin Set, and it was even voted as the favourite design from the set by Change Checkers!
Plus, the design hides a secret phrase… can you spot it?
Across the highly detailed buttons, you can see letters that spell out: ‘Pioneer of the Telephone’. What a fantastic way to show that Bell was, truly, the Pioneer of the Telephone!
This innovative feature follows the excitement of the secret messages within the Alan Turing 50p, released just last month!
Find out more on our Alan Turing blog >>
And, these aren’t the first scientific innovators to appear on UK coins. In fact, the first 50p in the UK’s Innovation in Science series celebrated Stephen Hawking – making him one of ONLY three people to be celebrated on a UK coin within a year of passing!
The Stephen Hawking 50p was so popular that it sold out of ALL precious metal specifications on launch day — this, in turn, then drove a high demand for the BU issue.
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This coin is no longer available from The Royal Mint, but you can secure it it in Brilliant Uncirculated quality from Change Checker >>
The UK’s First Pride 50p!
The 50th Anniversary of London Pride was celebrated in July 2022 and to mark the event, a UK 50p coin was issued – the UK’s FIRST Pride 50p!
* Update – Entering circulation! *
On 25th October 2022, 5 million Pride 50ps entered circulation via 2,000 different Post Offices across the UK. Following the death of Queen Elizabeth II, The Royal Mint also confirmed that the Pride 50p would be the last UK coin to enter circulation featuring Her Majesty’s portrait on the obverse.
The 2022 UK Pride 50p Coin
The UK’s first Pride 50p was issued in collaboration with Pride in London and features an original design by artist, writer and LGBTQ+ activist, Dominique Holmes.
The reverse of the coin features 5 rainbows, each accompanied with part of the inscription, “PRIDE PROTEST VISIBILITY UNITY EQUALITY”.
This will be the last UK coin to enter circulation featuring Queen Elizabeth II’s portrait on the obverse.
The 2022 Pride 50p is no longer available from The Royal Mint, but you can still secure it in Brilliant Uncirculated quality from Change Checker for just £12.99 (+p&p) >>
This was the first UK 50p coin issued representing Pride. Previous ‘UK first’ 50p coins have been incredibly popular.
The UK’s First Beatrix Potter 50p Collection
This 50p coin collection was issued in 2016 to celebrate the much loved author, Beatrix Potter. The collection features four coins each representing a character from Potter’s iconic tales and one honouring Beatrix Potter herself.
The Colour Silver Proof Peter Rabbit 50p coin was so popular that it sold out in a matter of hours and caused The Royal Mint’s website to crash!
The UK’s First Snowman 50p
In 2018, The Royal Mint released the first ever commemorative UK Christmas 50p coin, issued to mark the 40th anniversary of the publication of Raymond Briggs’ much-loved festive tale, The Snowman™.
Designed by Natasha Ratcliffe, the coin depicts the boy and the snowman flying through the night sky above Brighton Pier. This coin didn’t enter circulation, but the Silver Proof version sold out within 24 hours of release.
50 Years of Pride
The first London Pride event took place in 1972 and was attended by approximately 2,000 people, the event has grown tremendously since, with over 1.5 million people attending the 2019 London Pride parade.
Credit: Camerawalker, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Pride events take place annually across the globe, however most were cancelled in 2020 and 2021 due to the coronavirus pandemic. Returning in 2022, Pride events took place across the UK.
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The Royal Mint will make a contribution of £40,000 to London LGBT Community Pride C.I.C in connection with this campaign.
Your Pride 50p coin has been struck to a superior Brilliant Uncirculated finish and will be protectively encapsulated in official Change Checker packaging, ready to preserve for generations to come.