New 50p coin explains the offside rule
Howard Lake | 5 January 2012 | News
Street collectors might soon come across some new 50p coins in their collection boxes. One of them includes a diagram that attempts to explain the offside rule in football.
The 29 new coins form a series which features each of the Olympic and Paralympic sports to be contested during London 2012. The football coin was designed by London journalist Neil Wolfson.
Although the designs will be attractive to collectors, all the coins are legal tender so should start to appear in charity collection boxes soon. Around 87 million of these coins will be in circulation.
You can see the winning designs and find out more about the public competition to design the coins in this video from The Royal Mint:
www.royalmint.com/olympicgames/sportscollection/sportscollection.aspx
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