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The reverse of the coin, designed by Christopher Ironside, and used from 1969 to 2008, is a seated Britannia alongside a lion, holding an olive branch in her left hand and a trident in her right, accompanied by either NEW PENCE (1969–1981) or FIFTY PENCE (1982–2008) above Britannia, with the numeral 50 underneath the seated figure.
The half dollar, sometimes referred to as the half for short or 50-cent piece, is a United States coin worth 50 cents, or one half of a dollar.In both size and weight, it is the largest circulating coin currently minted in the United States, [1] being 1.205 inches (30.61 millimeters) in diameter and 0.085 in (2.16 mm) in thickness, and is twice the weight of the quarter.
Fifty pence, 50p or 50P may refer to: Fifty pence (British coin), one half pound sterling; Fifty pence (Irish coin), one half of the now withdrawn Irish pound; Fifty Pence, nickname of a fictional character from M.I.High; Fifty Pence (or 50 Pence), pseudonym of Liam Don, a musician from Hemel Hempstead who has written parodies of 50 Cent songs
Illinois Centennial half dollar; Indian 50-paisa coin; ... File:British fifty pence coin 1982 reverse.png; File:British fifty pence coin 2015 obverse.png; File ...
The British twenty pence and fifty pence coins are heptagonal Reuleaux polygons, [21] [22] as is the United Arab Emirates 50 fils coin, the Barbados one dollar coin, [23] and several coins from Botswana. [24] Many countries in the Commonwealth of Nations have issued heptagonal coins.
1967 Kennedy Half Dollar Auction record: $6,995 This rare coin is notable because it doesn’t contain a mint mark; the U.S. Mint deliberately didn’t include mint marks on coins produced from ...
In the UK, use of the term "bit" had already disappeared with the exception of the 'thruppeny bit', by the time British currency moved to decimal coinage and the consequential loss of the coin denominations to which it had applied. Thus a ten pence piece is referred to merely as "ten pence", or even "ten pee", not as a "tenpenny bit". The term ...
The coin was designed by Tom Ryan who would later design the Irish pound coin. About 5 million of these were produced, with 50 thousand proof coins also being produced. [1] Production of fifty pence coins ceased between 1988 and 1996 because of previous oversupply and because of reduced demand following the introduction of the twenty pence coin.