The Royal Mint has revealed the design for the new coins.Best argument for plastic I've ever seen.
Thursday, 3 April 2008
Mint Madness
The Royal Mint has revealed the design for the new coins.Best argument for plastic I've ever seen.
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A-yup, them-their coins is indeed purty da-yum ugly.
Not quite as bad as the new American paper money, though, which seems to have been designed to deter forgery by being too ugly for the forgers to look at for very long. Yeh, I know, at least we still get our Presidents (or their caricatures) on our money.
Well, I like the new coins. The 5p and £1 coins look a bit off, but the rest are nice.
Of course, I'm young, and I'm sure that you'll be perfectly happy to tell me why the wren farthing and thrup'ney bit were right better, and how this used to be all fields...
I'm from the US, and it sickens me to see the way that Britannia has been altered or completely taken off your coinage. My daughter and I collect world coins, and enjoyed getting shipments from the UK. I was a huge admirer. It's so sad.
you know, the old coins aren't going to disappear overnight. They're still legal, and will be until we either abandon physical currency altogether or, perhaps, convert to the euro (I wonder which option this blog prefers). Plus, you don't live here in the UK so stop caring so much.
Anonymous: Not being a resident of the UK hasn't damaged my eyesight or my aesthetics. (Perhaps you would prefer a metal disc with a numeral printed on it to the currency posted?) If you had taken the time to read back a few posts, your comments might have had more validity.
I agree wholeheartedly with rosered775. To watch any country flush its culture--especially one as rich and world revolutionizing as Britain's--is sickening to any good, rational man, Mr. Anonymous.
The morally and intellectually bankrupt trilobites that have been running Britain for the last decade have been hell-bent on casting a veil (excuse the pun...) upon her history for the sake of appearing more "worldly".
What makes a nation is its culture. Its commonalities of language, history, religion, philiosophy, politics, arts, literature and the like. If a nation buries it under the guise of propping up a wikipedia-esque "worldwide view", it HAS no culture and is wholly redundant in its existance.
And that's just damn sad.
Oh, and in terms of aesthetics, I would rather revert to a barter system than have the gall to plink these fuglies down on the counter...
Sorry for the double-post, David.
I don't believe the culture of the UK can be damaged by a change of coinage. Is that what the UK is? Is it made up of little pictures on our money? And I especially don't see how removing a vaguely Roman goddess figure from 50p pieces and replacing it with the frikkin royal coat of arms is losing any 'britishness' or whatever it is you're scared of losing. There are more serious, i.e. actual things going on that do threaten UK culture, I know, but this is not it. It's just money, you musn't get too attached. You know what they say about the love of money, of course...
"The love of money is the root of all evil..." reference from the King James Version of the Bible (1Timothy 6:10) refers to the desire of acquiring money to the exclusion of other activity.
With this mintage, I don't believe there is a any threat of that.
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