Posts Tagged ‘Coins’
Change Checker Coin Photo of the Year 2017
We’ve launched our search for the Change Checker Coin Photo of the Year 2017. If you have a passion for coins and enjoy photography, this is the competition for you.
Anybody can enter and we don’t mind how the photo is taken, SLR, Phone and Digital cameras are all absolutely fine.
You do not need to be a professional, just that you enjoy taking photos. If this is the first photography competition you have entered, good for you!
How does it work?
There are 4 categories:
- Week 1: Nature and Landscapes
- Week 2: Urban
- Week 3: Sport
- Week 4: Architecture
The categories are flexible and open to interpretation as we want you to be as creative as possible.
Each week we’ll ask you to post your photos on to our Instagram page with #coinphotoawards2017. At the end of each week, we’ll select our favourite 4 photos; these will be uploaded to the Change Checker Blog where the public can then vote for their favourite the following week.
The photo with the most votes each week wins that category and will be put through to the Grand Final at our Change Checker Awards 2017 in December.
When is the competition?
The dates of the competition are:
The winner of each category will be announced weekly on the Monday after voting closes.
What do I win?
Each weekly winner will be awarded The Complete Change Checker Album.
The Coin Photo of the Year 2017, the overall winner (announced in December), will win their photograph professionally printed and framed.
Are there any rules?
Here are the most important two:
- Your photo MUST be uploaded to our Instagram page with #coinphotoawards2017, any entries uploaded to our other social media channels will not be considered.
- Your photo must be 100% your own work.
Good luck and we look forward to seeing all your fantastic photographs!
Terms and Conditions
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Copyright will be assigned to Change Checker (Westminster Collection) for any photographs submitted
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Children under the age of 18 must gain permission from parents/guardian before entering the competition
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The overall winner must agree to participate in publicity surrounding the competition
The Royal Mint has just announced the release of a brand new UK Prince Philip coin
The Royal Mint has just announced the release of a brand new UK coin that pays tribute to Prince Philip and his 70 years of service.
The New Prince Philip Retirement Coin
On 4th May this year, Buckingham Palace announced that Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh would be retiring from public duty. This marks an incredible 70 years of service to the Queen, the United Kingdom, British Isles and the Commonwealth.
The release of this coin is sure to be exciting for Change Checkers in the knowledge that the last UK coin that featured Prince Philip turned out to be extremely rare.
The rarest £5 coin
Back in 2011 a UK £5 coin was issued by The Royal Mint in celebration of the 90th birthday of Prince Philip.
The rarest UK £5 coin – 2011 Prince Philip 90th Birthday £5
The coins design featured a specially commissioned portrait of Philip by Mark Richards FRBS. Just 18,730 of these coins were struck in Brilliant Uncirculated presentation packs making it one of the rarest £5 coins ever.
And because of this, the coin is extremely sought after by collectors and is virtually impossible to get hold of on the secondary market.
As you probably already know, coins with a lower mintage are often the most sought-after by collectors in years to come.
So could this new 2017 UK Prince Phillip coin have an even lower mintage?
Now available to order
The Brand New 2017 UK Prince Philip CERTIFIED BU £5 Coin is now available to order.
Canada has just released the world’s first glow-in-the-dark coin into circulation…
On the 1st July 2017, Canada turned 150. To celebrate, The Royal Canadian Mint released a once-in-a-life-time set of coins highlighting this milestone event in Canadian history.
And one of them glows in the dark!
The two-dollar coin, (or toonie), celebrates the wonders of Canada with an evocative design featuring the Northern Lights and it even glows in the dark thanks to special ink that contains luminescent material.
The glow-in-the-dark coin that every Canadian Change Checker wants!
The specially designed two-dollar coin, which was issued to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Canada, features two people paddling in a canoe as the northern lights dance high above – which the Cree peoples called “the dance of the spirits”.
When the coin is put in the dark, the aurora borealis glows softly, thanks to a new ink formulation that contains luminescent material.
Just 3 million of these coins were released into general circulation in Canada, meaning just one in ten Canadians were able to find one in their change.
There is no doubt that these coins would create a collecting frenzy if a similar event like this was to happen in the UK.
5 brand new coins have been struck by The Royal Canadian Mint to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Canada.
In fact, each and every one of these special Royal Canadian Mint releases have become a collector’s item and going by previous issues, 25 cents and $2 coins are extremely difficult to get hold of.
If you’re interested in coin collecting, our Change Checker web app is completely free to use and allows users to:
– Find and identify the coins in their pocket
– Collect and track the coins they have
– Swap their spare coins with other Change Checkers
Sign up today at: www.changechecker.org/app