Every now and then I’ll pick up a shiny new coin and just be like wowed out by the cool design (little pleasures I know) and at the end of last year the coins started to have a similar theming across them. Turns out they were the new Royal Shield of Arms design – basically all the coins together form the Royal Arms. The design was chosen by a competition back in August 2005 though I’m not sure when they started to actually release the new designs – I’m sure only mid-way through or late last year. This is the first time, apparently, that a single design has been used across a range of United Kingdom coins.

I finally collected all seven coins at the beginning of December last year so I thought I’d finally post about it. Entertaingly when I told James I was collecting the coins he started to collect them too but I think its only recently that he has completed his collection (if he has completed it at all!) The hardest coins to collect were the 2p coin and the 50p coin.

The best thing? Now I can spend it. Watch out world for my £1.88!!!