The Royal Mint has unveiled a new £100 coin featuring London’s Elizabeth Tower and Big Ben.
The UK coin manufacturing body has produced 50,000 of the pieces which will be legal tender but are designed to be collectors items rather than to be used to pay for goods.
A street view of London’s Elizabeth Tower, which was renamed after Britain’s Queen Elizabeth to mark her Diamond Jubilee in 2012, features on one side of the coin, and Big Ben, the great bell of the clock housed inside the tower, is also visible from the same angle.
Shane Bissett, the Royal Mint’s director of commemorative coin, bullion and medals, said: "The sound of Big Ben chiming in the Elizabeth Tower is one that will have become synonymous with Britain for millions of British citizens and tourists alike, particularly on New Year’s Eve when the world listens for Big Ben, which marks Greenwich Mean Time, to chime in the New Year.
"So it is a fitting choice for the nation’s first £100 coin, and this is a fitting time for us to reveal it."
The item is Britain’s first ever £100 coin at face value and is one of the last to feature the queen’s fourth main coinage portrait, which appears on the flip side to the Elizabeth Tower image.
Royal Mint unveils £100 Elizabeth Tower coin
