The Royal Mint's new 50p coins featuring the head of King Charles III are currently being minted in Wales. Workers at the Royal Mint in Pontyclun, near Llantrisant,, 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.
The artist who designed the first coins of the King has said seeing the for the first time at Royal Mint in Pontyclun, near Llantrisant, was "astonishing". Martin Jennings worked painstakingly for a year, alongside experts at the Royal Mint, to create the portrait of Charles on the front of the new coins.
