GREAT_BRITAIN 

KM 1004

SHORT COINS

ENCYCLOPAEDIA

                

Face Value Diameter mm Weight g Thickness mm Edge - Plain Composition Rotation
50 pence 27.3 8.0 1.78 Shape - 7-sided Copper-Nickel Medal
Obverse Reverse

The inscriptions along the rim: title of Queen, the year of minting. In the center - bust of queen Elizabeth II right (portrait by Ian Rank-Broadley).

Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary, born 21 April 1926) became Queen of
the United Kingdom on 6 February 1952.

 150th anniversary of the Public Libraries Act of 1850.

Open book above pillared building. Dates above and 50 PENCE to the right.

In 1849, a Bill was introduced by William Ewart in the House of Commons to provide for a system of "libraries freely open to the public...in towns in Great Britain and Ireland".