I don't know if this is information available on every major internet news site, but I just found out that the UK is changing the design of their coins.
Aw, I get all nostalgic about UK coins, I remember when I used to get 10p (one of the old big ones, before they made everything small) as payment for doing my chores every week and I would go and buy lots of sweets and I would think about how great it would be if one week I could save my 10p and then the next week I would have 20p and be able to buy a pack of nerds! But I never did. And I really like the pound coins they have in circulation now, with the different symbols for Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and England, and the mottos in the different languages around the outside, Welsh, Gaelic, Latin (can't have anything in English, that's far too pedestrian for coinage). But I like this new idea of using the Royal Arms. I'm just not sure about it's being split up over six coins. It's a nice design, it's just . . . it's coins, they tend to live separate lives and I'm sure there will be kids who never realize that all those funny pictures are actually part of one big picture, but then maybe it will be a great moment for them when they do realize.
Posted by linnea at April 8, 2008 10:08 AMWill the ones I saved because I knew I would return someday to england still be good when I get there???
Posted by: funke at April 10, 2008 9:34 AMPS...maybe there are more thrify kids than you who will save their 10p and 5p and 20p, etc. and so have them all in the same place at one time....
Posted by: funke at April 10, 2008 9:36 AMSo is the 10p going to be big again? I see it's bigger than the 20 in the photo. And will that 1L be as thick and heavy? The colors, excuse me, colours are all so bright and pretty!!
Posted by: sperlonga at April 10, 2008 2:48 PM