change checker 50p wallace and gromit collection

It is the fifth portrait of the Queen used on coinage. The obverse portrait of the Queen by Mr Jody Clark was introduced in March 2015 and was used on all Queen Elizabeth II circulating coinage up to her death in 2022. Obverse Type 6 (bust design by (Mr) Jody Clark, dated 2019):Ĭollectability/Scarcity: 1 (for scale details see here) The story behind the design:

Without further ado though, here are the glorious 2019 50p’s in full: It has become very tiresome and even collectors that have bought Royal Mint products for many years or even decades, are getting a bit bored with it all by now – I certainly am, and if I didn’t have to buy each coin in order to produce pictures, I wouldn’t touch most of them with a Guinness Book of Records spec barge pole.Īsk yourself this: Are you really a coin collector, or are you simply a coin consumer? To me, it’s just about large commercial interests and making lots of profit, whatever coin designs happen to sell the most is irrelevant, they are knocked up, hyped up and then they move on to the next one.Ĭlearly people can’t get enough of them though, and they rally-round to buy anything and everything the Royal Mint produces (there must be a demand, or they wouldn’t keep producing them), just because they feel they need to, due perhaps in part to social media pressure or the basic need some people feel to own a ‘complete collection’, or for many it’s to put them on eBay – sometimes before they even arrive – in the hope of turning a quick profit. Most recent 50p’s seem to be aimed at kids and many are commercial joint ventures made in conjunction with the rights owners to whatever characters they think will be commercially successful. Most of those will never actually appear in circulation and will therefore never be used as coins – you have to buy them if you want them, and where’s the fun in that? RM (Royal Mint or Royal Monopoly?). Twenty-one different 50p coins made during one year – let that sink in for a while. To round it all off we had a further Snowman and a Wallace and Gromit for good measure. Oh, and another ‘Strike Your Own’ based on the original Britannia 50p (this time with a mint mark and marked angles). Another set of five re-issue design 50p coins appeared later in 2019.

Twenty-one different 50p coins issued in 2019! We had the standard shield reverse coin, a Sir Arthur Conan Doyle commemorative, Gruffalo x2, Stephen Hawking, yet another Peter Rabbit, two more Paddington bear, a re-issue of the original ‘NEW PENCE’ 50p (dated 2019) and re-issues of four other random designs from previous years, that, with the ‘NEW PENCE’ coin make up the first set of five coins to ‘commemorate’ the introduction of the 50p coin in 1969. <- Click Here to go back to the main 50p Coins in Circulation page

Change checker 50p wallace and gromit collection