UK 50 PENCE RARE SEVEN EDGED LARGE SIZE HEPTAGON 50p COMMEMORATIVE COIN.RING OF HANDS

1973 ISSUE COMMEMORATING THE UK'S ACCESSION TO THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY (EEC)

LARGER SIZE COIN WEIGHING 13.50 GRAMS, WITH A 75% COPPER AND 25% NICKEL CONTENT

INTERESTING COIN DEPICTING THE NINE CLASPED HANDS OF THE PRINCIPAL EEC MEMBERS (WAS ONE OF THEM GREECE???)JOINING HANDS TO SIGNIFY THE PARTNERSHIP OF THE EEC. ONE OF THE HANDS IS SAID TO BE THE QUEENS'S (THE HAND IS AT THE 2 TO 3 O'CLOCK POSITION, AND IS CLEARLY FEMININE !!)

INSCRIPTION IN THE CENTRE MERELY STATES 1973 AND A LARGE 50 FOLLOWED BY PENCE. IT WAS GOING TO STATE 'EUROPE' IN THE CENTRE BUT THIS WAS NOT ALLOWED BY THE FOREIGN OFFICE

ON THE FRONT IS THE YOUNG QUEENS HEAD WEARING CROWN

AROUND THE FRONT ARE THE WORDS  ' D : G : REG : F : D : ELIZABETH II

LOW MINTAGE

SOLD IN USED CIRCULATED CONDITION, BUT A GOOD NICE SHINY COIN

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