GREAT_BRITAIN 

KM 913

SHORT COINS

ENCYCLOPAEDIA

                

Face Value Diameter mm Weight g Thickness mm Edge - Plain Composition Rotation
50 new pence 30.0 13.5   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 Arnold Machin in which she wears the 'Girls of Great Britain and Ireland' Tiara).

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

 The inscriptions along the rim: word denomination. In the center, Britannia sitting on lion facing right (designed by Christopher Ironside).

The was introduced in 1969 to replace the ten shilling note as part of the run
up towards decimalisation two years later.