50p Coin

[2Loose]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/bradford/8506706.stm

A new 50p designed by a 9yr old keen cyclist will soon be in every pocket.

Nice way to revive cycle awareness before the Olympics.

 

[ASC1951]

9yr old keen cyclist

16, surely?

 

[Keith Oates]

Good that cycling is recognised for the coin, now I've got to try and get one!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[dudi]

16 indeed - quite a nice design too... better than all that fiddly nonsense on the back of my £2 coin...

Reminds me of those football medals you used to get from Shell garages...

 

[Globalti]

What's that exploding out of the cyclist's head?

 

[beanzontoast]

What's that exploding out of the cyclist's head?

Looks like a passing motorist has chucked their chip wrapper at him!

 

[2Loose]

16, surely?

oops, the other coin was by a nine yr old, my bad.

 

[thomas]

What's that exploding out of the cyclist's head?

I think it's a helmet camera

Nice coin too!

 

[trustysteed]

should have been on the two pound coin, a design on a coin shaped like a buckled wheel won't help cycling!

 

[Fnaar]

What a great thing for this youngster!

 

[Crankarm]

What's that exploding out of the cyclist's head?

It's the crappy 2012 logo by the looks of it. Why couldn't they move it well to the right away from the cyclists head I don't know. Kind of spoils the image IMHO. Still good for the nipper that his image is on the coin when it could have easily been forgotten about. Whose the cyclist he's modelled his image on?

 

[Fnaar]

It's the crappy 2012 logo by the looks of it.

Yes, it's the "Lisa Simpson performing a bj" logo. I agree with you. Why not just move it away from the cyclist's head?

 

[trustysteed]

perhaps it's a thought bubble and the cyclist is thinking about lisa simpson...your mind can wander on those time trials!