Production of the first King Charles III coins for circulation has started at the Royal Mint, which marks the biggest change to UK coinage since decimalisation.
As well as coins featuring the new Monarch's face, a memorial 50 pence in honour of the late Queen will also be appearing in the public's change through banks and post offices from December. Workers at the Royal Mint in south Wales, will produce 9.6 million copies of the coin to mark the Queen's death at the age of 96.
In tribute to the Queen, the reverse of the 50p features the design that originally appeared on coins to commemorate her coronation at Westminster Abbey in 1953. It includes the four quarters of the Royal Arms depicted within a shield, with emblems of the home nations - a rose, a thistle, a shamrock and a leek.
