Freshly Minted

The Royal Mint is to unveil a series of newly designed coins today.

It is cited as the first major stylistic change to the pennies in our pocket since decimalisation in 1971.

Yet our coinage has continued to evolve over the past four decades.

Who can forget the introduction of the easily mislaid five pence piece in 1990 as well as the rather continental looking two pound coin in 1997?

The new designs will apparently combine traditional symbols of British identity with more contemporary ones.

The Queen in a hoodie?

With the introduction of the new coins at least Eurosceptics can draw some comfort that this maybe an indication that Britain will still not be joining the Euro for some time to come.

Article taken from www.stuartjamesross.blogspot.com on 2/4/08.