UK Coin Designs
Coin design
Graphic design
Design research
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Tuch have designed two commemorative 50p coins, approved by two Monarchs and struck by the Royal Mint.
Red Arrows commemorative 50p, 2025
Our most recent coin design has been struck in January 2025 to celebrate the Red Arrows. The design features on the reverse three classic Hawk T1 aircraft in flight, and aims to catch the flavour of the dynamic Red Arrows displays as seen by the audience. The coin has been struck in gold Proof, silver Proof and Brilliant Uncirculated editions, including colour-printed versions highlighting the red, white and blue trails used in the Red Arrows’ displays.
You can read more about the origins of the design and the process of selection in the article below.
Charles Babbage 50p, 2021
This coin commemorates the life and legacy of one of Britain’s greatest minds, Charles Babbage, on the 150th anniversary of his death. Babbage’s mechanical calculators helped to bring about the conceptual leap to modern computing.
This is the fourth coin in the Innovation in Science series, and the first of our coin designs to be approved for production.
The design is based on an abstracted version of Babbage's Difference Engine, the numbers in the lower half of the coin are a simple code, can you see what they spell?
Millennium Crown pack and mint mark, 2000
Back in 2000 we had our first coin related project when we were tasked with designing the mint mark and the packaging for the Mint’s Millenium Dome coin.
A mint mark is a small device which indicates where a coin was struck, in this case a small globe with lines of longitude and lattitude inspired by the globes on the west gate at the old Royal Naval College, Greenwich. This was used on a limited edition £5 coin which visitors could strike at the Millennium Dome – we also designed the packaging which features an image of the dome embossed on silver card.
