Top four 50p coins shortlisted. Vote for your favourite!
To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the 50p coin, we’ve been asking Change Checkers to vote for their favourite UK 50p coin EVER!
With over 70 different designs issued by The Royal Mint since 1969, choosing an overall favourite is no easy task and so we decided to first split the coins into four categories – Modern, Olympic, Beatrix Potter and Pre 1997.
Change Checkers have been voting for their favourite coin from each category and the shortlisted results are now in, ready for the overall winning design to be chosen. Vote now in our poll at the bottom of this blog.
Top Modern 50p – 2017 Sir Isaac Newton
Top Olympic 50p – Football
Top Beatrix Potter 50p – 2016 Beatrix Potter
Top Pre 1997 – D-Day Landings
2017 Sir Isaac Newton
Sir Isaac Newton is widely recognised as one of the most influential scientists of all time and a key figure in the scientific revolution. He changed our understanding of mathematics and physics, redefined the way we see the world and shaped the security of our currency in his role as Master of the Mint.
Designed by Aaron West, this 50p coin has been issued to commemorate the achievements of Sir Isaac Newton and remembers the legacy he left.
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Olympic Football
The football 50p was possibly the most publicised of all the Olympic 50p designs, as it features the hotly debated offside rule in the form of a simple diagram.
Designer Neil Wolfson, a sports journalist by trade, chose an image which he felt would encapsulate the sport whilst also provoke discussion.
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2016 Beatrix Potter
To celebrate the 150th anniversary of the birth of Beatrix Potter, the Royal Mint released this 50p to celebrate Beatrix herself.
Designed by Emma Noble, the coin includes elements that celebrate Beatrix as the artist behind some of the best-loved characters in children’s literature along with the nostalgic font used for the inscription.
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Pre 1997 D-Day Landings
On 6th June 1944, a date known ever since as D-Day, a mighty alliance of British, American and Commonwealth armed forces crossed over from England to Normandy and began an assault on occupying German troops.
To commemorate the 50th anniversary of these D-Day landings in 1994, The Royal Mint released this 50p designed by sculptor John Mills depicts an armada of ships and planes heading in one direction.
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Now that the top four coins have been shortlisted, it’s time to find out which 50p is the overall favourite amongst Change Checkers.
Vote in our poll below to pick the best 50p coin ever issued and we’ll announce the winning design later this week.
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D DAY LANDINGS IT HELPED MAKE US WHO WE ARE TODAY AND ALSO TO REMEMBER THOSE WHO FORT TO GIVE US ARE FREEDOM BACK
I think the Canadians deserve a seperate mention since they had their own beach , should read British , American , Canadian and commonwealth
I think its pretty and not the usual kind of design you would expect.
That what we know is truly commemorated in this iconic coin and must never be forgotten
Beatrix potter 50p coin is a beautiful design that is why it gets my vote.
Purely voting on design and not the story/meaning behind the design my vote goes to pre 1997 D-Day landings.
3 or the 4 deserve to be in the final, Isaac Newton, Beatrix Potter and D-Day landings, I honestly can’t believe the design of the offside rule made it!!! It’s a boring design.
I like the Pre 1997 – D Day Landings it’s for all the forces, and the best of british.
My vote goes to the D Day landings
Hard choice, but I am a huge fan of Beatrix Potter so this one got my vote.
D Day. Where would we all be if it had not happen?
D Day landings shows the result of what had been happening after a very bad period in world history
D Day Landing says it all for WW2
i would like sir isaac newton 50p to win because it is the best design i have seen in years on a 50p coin and sir isaac newton was one of the greatist scientists to make a big impact on time as we know it now
What impact did he have on time? How it time ‘as we know it now’ different to time before Isaac Newton? Time is a constant, Newton had no effect on it and it has never changed.
The coin encapsulated the feeling of D Day with all the military services joining together.
I was ten at that time but remember the atmosphere.
The coin encapsulated the feeling of D Day with all the military services joining together.
I was ten at that time but remember the atmosphere.
beautiful history
D day landings is one of the great battles that shaped the war and submission of Germany.
Glad to commemorate a British lady, especially one appreciated by children as well as adults.
Great design. I also liked the newer 50p with the similar design.
Gotta be the Isaac Newton…great advocate for British science and beatifully designed coin….gotta be!!
Beatrix would be delighted with this design to celebrate her birth.
D Day Landings ‘We will remember them’ . A lot of detail in this coin telling the story so we won’t forget all those brave men & women.
Nice looking coin with clean lines.
Has to be the iconic coin of the past 50 years depicting the time when not only the UK but the European continent’s future would change to what we all recognise today, and each country liberated would once again be able to govern it’s self.
Great design
Really like this design for what it represents
D day landing good design
D day landings, turning point in the last century
Nice design