The Royal Mint held a competition to replace the reverse designs on UK coins, and the winning design by 26-year-old graphic designer Matthew Dent is pretty cool. Each coin denomination has a separate portion of the Royal Arms. You can’t literally fit them together, but as a whole they represent the entire coat of arms.
I love it. It’s traditional, but with the extreme close-ups, also feels really modern. In fact, looking at them individually, I think of certain movie credits, where the camera pushes in close on an object, and a name — in this case, the number of pence — appears along the edge. I want pretty money! (via Fredo)
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I want pretty money, too. Have you seen the ground-breaking new US $5? It has, like, a big purple 5 on it but is otherwise totally beige.