Ten pence (British coin)
United Kingdom | |
Value | £0.10 |
---|---|
Mass | (1968–1992) 11.31 g (1992–present) 6.5 g |
Diameter | (1968–1992) 28.5 mm (1992–present) 24.5 mm |
Thickness | ( Royal Shield |
Designer | Matthew Dent |
Design date | 2008 |
The
The ten pence coin was originally minted from cupro-nickel (75% Cu, 25% Ni), but since 2012 it has been minted in nickel-plated steel due to the increasing price of metal. From January 2013 the Royal Mint began a programme to gradually remove the previous cupro-nickel coins from circulation and replace them with the nickel-plated steel versions.[3]
As of March 2014,[update] there were an estimated 1,631 million 10p coins in circulation, with an estimated face value of £163.08 million.[4]
10p coins are legal tender for amounts up to the sum of £5 when offered in repayment of a debt; however, the coin's legal tender status is not normally relevant for everyday transactions.
Design
Obverse
To date, four different
As with all new decimal currency, until 1984 the portrait of
Between 1985 and 1997 the portrait by
On 30 September 1992 a reduced-size version of the 10 pence coin was introduced. The older and larger version of the coin was withdrawn from circulation on 30 June 1993. The design remained unchanged.
From 1998 to 2015 the portrait by
As of June 2015, coins bearing the portrait by Jody Clark have been seen in circulation.
Reverse
Original Reverse Design
The original reverse of the coin, designed by Christopher Ironside, and used from 1968 to 2008, is a crowned lion (formally, Part of the crest of England, a lion passant guardant royally crowned), with the numeral "10" below the lion, and either NEW PENCE (1968–1981) or TEN PENCE (1982–2008) above the lion.
Royal Shield Design
In August 2005 the
A to Z Design (Great British Coin Hunt)
In March 2018, new designs were released, one for each of the 26 letters of the alphabet. Anne Jessopp, chief executive of the Royal Mint, described the designs as "iconic themes that are quintessentially British". The A to Z coins were confirmed to have individual mintage figures of 220,000 on 14 October 2019 - a total of 5,720,000 for all 26.[9][10]
- A – Angel of the North
- B – Bond... James Bond
- C – Cricket
- D – Double-decker bus
- E – English breakfast
- F – Fish and chips
- G – Greenwich Mean Time
- H – Houses of Parliament
- I – Ice cream
- J – Jubilee
- K – King Arthur
- L – Loch Ness Monster
- M – Mackintosh
- N – NHS
- O – Oak tree
- P – Post box
- Q – Queuing
- R – Robin
- S – Stonehenge
- T – Tea
- U – Union Flag
- V – Village
- W – World Wide Web
- X – X marks the spot
- Y – Yeoman Warder
- Z – Zebra crossing
King Charles III definitive design
In October 2023 the King Charles III ten-pence coin was presented; the coin features a capercaillie. [11][12]
Mintages
Year | Number minted | Composition | Diameter (mm) | Portrait | Reverse |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1968 | 336,143,250 | Cupro-nickel | 28.5 | Machin | Ironside |
1969 | 314,008,000 | ||||
1970 | 133,571,000 | ||||
1971 | 63,205,000 | ||||
1972 | 0 | ||||
1973 | 152,174,000 | ||||
1974 | 92,741,000 | ||||
1975 | 181,559,000 | ||||
1976 | 228,220,000 | ||||
1977 | 59,323,000 | ||||
1978 | 0 | ||||
1979 | 115,457,000 | ||||
1980 | 88,650,000 | ||||
1981 | 3,487,000 | ||||
1982 | 0 | ||||
1983 | 0 | ||||
1984 | 0 | ||||
1985 | 0 | Maklouf | |||
1986 | 0 | ||||
1987 | 0 | ||||
1988 | 0 | ||||
1989 | 0 | ||||
1990 | 0 | ||||
1991 | 0 | ||||
1992 | 1,413,455,170 | 24.5 | |||
1993 | 0 | ||||
1994 | 0 | ||||
1995 | 43,259,000 | ||||
1996 | 118,738,000 | ||||
1997 | 99,196,000 | ||||
1998 | 0 | Rank-Broadley | |||
1999 | 0 | ||||
2000 | 134,733,000 | ||||
2001 | 129,281,000 | ||||
2002 | 80,934,000 | ||||
2003 | 88,118,000 | ||||
2004 | 99,602,000 | ||||
2005 | 69,604,000 | ||||
2006 | 118,803,000 | ||||
2007 | 72,720,000 | ||||
2008 | 9,720,000 | ||||
2008 | 71,447,000 | Dent | |||
2009 | 84,360,000 | ||||
2010 | 96,600,500 | ||||
2011 | 59,603,850 | Nickel-plated steel | |||
2012 | 11,600,030 | ||||
2013 | 320,200,750 | ||||
2014 | 490,202,020 | ||||
2015 | 119,000,000 | ||||
91,900,000 | Clark | ||||
2016 | 135,380,000 | ||||
2017 | 33,300,000 | ||||
2018 | 0 | Dent | |||
5,720,000 | A to Z | ||||
2019 | 0 | Dent | |||
2,100,000 | A to Z | ||||
2020 | 45,347,846 | Dent | |||
2021 | 71,200,000 | ||||
2022 | 38,000,000 |
Year | Letter | Description | Number minted |
---|---|---|---|
2018 | A | Angel of the North | 220,000 |
B | Bond..James Bond | 220,000 | |
C | Cricket | 220,000 | |
D | Double Decker Bus | 220,000 | |
E | English Breakfast | 220,000 | |
F | Fish and Chips | 220,000 | |
G | Greenwich Mean Time | 220,000 | |
H | Houses of Parliament | 220,000 | |
I | Ice Cream Cone | 220,000 | |
J | Jubilee | 220,000 | |
K | King Arthur | 220,000 | |
L | Loch Ness Monster | 220,000 | |
M | Mackintosh | 220,000 | |
N | NHS | 220,000 | |
O | Oak Tree | 220,000 | |
P | Postbox | 220,000 | |
Q | Queuing | 220,000 | |
R | Robin | 220,000 | |
S | Stonehenge | 220,000 | |
T | Tea | 220,000 | |
U | Union Flag | 220,000 | |
V | Villages | 220,000 | |
W | World Wide Web | 220,000 | |
X | X Marks The Spot | 220,000 | |
Y | Yeoman Warder | 220,000 | |
Z | Zebra Crossing | 220,000 | |
2019 | A | Angel of the North | 84,000 |
B | Bond..James Bond | 84,000 | |
C | Cricket | 84,000 | |
D | Double Decker Bus | 84,000 | |
E | English Breakfast | 84,000 | |
F | Fish and Chips | 84,000 | |
G | Greenwich Mean Time | 84,000 | |
H | Houses of Parliament | 84,000 | |
I | Ice Cream Cone | 84,000 | |
J | Jubilee | 84,000 | |
K | King Arthur | 84,000 | |
L | Loch Ness Monster | 84,000 | |
M | Mackintosh | 84,000 | |
N | NHS | 84,000 | |
O | Oak Tree | 84,000 | |
P | Postbox | 84,000 | |
Q | Queuing | 83,000 | |
R | Robin | 64,000 | |
S | Stonehenge | 84,000 | |
T | Tea | 84,000 | |
U | Union Flag | 84,000 | |
V | Villages | 84,000 | |
W | World Wide Web | 63,000 | |
X | X Marks The Spot | 84,000 | |
Y | Yeoman Warder | 63,000 | |
Z | Zebra Crossing | 63,000 |
Mint Sets have been produced since 1982; where mintages on or after that date indicate 'none', there are examples contained within those sets.
References
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