Charmingly illustrated, the Baby Commemorative Coin Set contains the range of UK coins in circulation in 2010 from the 1p to the £2 as well as four new coins for 2010: a £2 coin honouring Florence Nightingale, a 50p celebrating the centenary of Girlguiding UK and the first two £1 coins in a new series of four. There is also room to record all those important baby details as well as your own welcome message.
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The Queen’s Portrait
All obverses in the collection feature the faithful likeness of the Queen created by the sculptor Ian Rank-Broadley FRBS.
The Royal Arms
New designs for the circulating coins from the 1p to the £1 were unveiled in 2008. Celebrating Britain’s ancient royal heritage, they focus entirely on the shield of the Royal Arms, a powerful symbol of monarchy used on the coinage since the reign of Edward III (1327-1377). The 1p to the 50p reveal the shield when arranged correctly while the £1 coin features the shield in its entirety.
Celebrating Technology
When it was introduced in 1997, the definitive £2 coin was the first bi-colour coin of the United Kingdom. Its reverse design, created by Bruce Rushin, celebrates the march of technology from the Iron Age to the Internet.
Florence Nightingale
During the Crimean War Florence Nightingale took a team of nurses to the battlefields to care for the ill and critically injured troops. She brought order and cleanliness to the hospitals there becoming known as ‘The Lady with the Lamp’ as she tended the wounded at night. She dedicated her life to nursing, publishing her Notes on Nursing in 1859, and became one of the most influential women of the age. The £2 coin struck in her honour celebrates 150 years of nursing care with the background symbolising the rays of light from her lamp.
The Cities
The two new £1 coins making their debut in 2010 begin a new series of four celebrating the great cities of the UK. London and Belfast feature in 2010 with Cardiff and Edinburgh due to follow in 2011. The reverses, created by renowned goldsmith Stuart Devlin, each bear the heraldic devices of the four cities highlighting each in turn.
The Girl Guides
The Girl Guides Association was founded in 1910. The charming 50p coin marking the centenary of the Girl Guide movement features a repeating pattern of the Girlguiding UK identity, symbolising the strength and diversity of the organisation as a whole.
Please note: the commemorative £2 and 50p coins as well as the two new £1 coins are subject to a maximum coin mintage of 250,000 each.