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Production of the country’s new coins, featuring the portrait of King Charles instead of the Queen, has begun.
Royal Mint said the move, which represents the biggest change to UK coinage since decimalisation, will ‘usher in a new era’.
In the new coin, Charles faces to the left, the opposite direction to his mother. This is because tradition states monarchs face the opposite way to their predecessors.
Protocol also dictates that Kings do not wear crowns in their portraits on coins, while it is the opposite for female royals.