Six Silver Coins Presented Side by Side

Britannia Returns in a New Guise

Britannia is an enduring icon of British coinage. She has been featured on coins under every monarch since Charles II's seventeenth-century reign and first appeared on the coins of Roman Emperor Hadrian in the second century. Artist David Lawrence, whose designs include contributions to our five-year series commemorating the centenary of the First World War, presents Britannia in a more classical style for 2019.