A new collectable coin has been released by the Royal Mint in a bid to celebrate the life of British scientist and codebreaker Alan Turing.
Best known for breaking the German Enigma code during World War Two, leading to victory over Nazi Germany, he is said to have saved tens of thousand of lives with historians stating that he may have actually shorted the war by four years.
The computer genius already features on the new polymer £50 note and now for the first time, the Royal Mint will honour him on a coin which can only be purchased as part of a collectable piece.
