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Coin Collecting NewsBritish Royal Mint Narrows List of Reverse Designs for Six Coins
By World Coin News
The British Royal Mint launched an open competition in August 2005 to find new designs for the reverse side of six of the United Kingdom’s circulating coins - from the one penny to the fifty pence.
Just over 4,000 designs were received from 526 designers the highest response to any public competition to redesign the United Kingdom coinage, including that organized at the time of decimalisation.
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