Mother Posed As Britannia, with a Ruler for a Trident
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WHAT I most remember about my father designing the decimal coins in 1962 was the secrecy surrounding it all.
As an artist he was a painter and taught life-drawing at the Royal College of Art hed been chosen as one of many designers to submit designs to a Royal Mint Committee, but decimalisation had not been announced and it was essential that no one knew anything about it.See the full content of this document
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Mother Posed As Britannia, with a Ruler for a Trident
And when his designs were finally chosen, we lived a kind of cloak-and-dagger life. The coins were first designed on paper, and then worked in rever...
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