Please sign the Government Petition and help persuade Gordon Brown that he is making a massive miscalculation of judgement.

This is your last chance to have your voice and your say before Britannia is removed from our coins having survived 300 years of governments!

Please sign the government petition HERE!

1st February 2008 - A Government Response:

The e-petition asking the Prime Minister to “to Keep Britannia on the 50 pence piece” is ongoing. This is a response in advance of the closing date from the Government

In 2005, with the approval of HM The Queen, the Royal Mint launched a national competition inviting the public to submit proposed new designs for the lower-denomination coinage. This was a one-off exercise designed to engage the British people in the heritage of our coinage, and received an excellent response.

As people will see when the new mint run is issued, the chosen designs represent the best traditions of British coinage. They are totally in line with the Government’s desire to celebrate our British heritage, including our historic national and heraldic emblems.

This is not the first occasion that the Britannia design will not have appeared on the 50 pence piece. For example, it was absent on last year’s mint run celebrating the 150th anniversary of the Victoria Cross - replaced with the image of a soldier carrying a wounded colleague from the battlefield. As on previous occasions, the traditional Britannia design will return in future mint runs.