This behind-the-scenes look at the Royal Mint shows workers producing three new coins for 2015 to commemorate British anniversaries. A 50 pence piece - set to enter circulation around March - will mark the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Britain in 1940. The new coin created by sculptor Gary Breeze depicts three fighter pilots scrambling for their Spitfires under a sky crowded with bombers. A new 2 coin will mark the 800th anniversary of the Magna Carta and a second 2 coin will celebrate the Navy's role in the First World War. Coinage artist John Berhdahl created the special Magna Carta coins which show King John accepting the historic treaty in 1215. The other 2 coin was designed by military artist David Rowlands and shows a Royal Navy battleship which contributed to victory in WW1. The Mint, based in south Wales, said its coin making process is in three stages of making the blanks, making the dies and striking the coins. It begins when the appropriate metals are melted before being extracted as a continuous strip, then reduced to a coin's thickness. Blank discs are punched from this, and then an engraving machine cuts the design into steel - used to make the dies to strike the coins. The blank coins are then fed into a coining press with a pair of dies, which strike the blanks and turn them into 850 coins a minute. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...nveil-three-new-coins-2015.html#ixzz3NlNp9Ovo Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook
