10p at a time, an A-Z of Great Britain

THEY are the images which put the ‘Great’ in Britain and from today they will appear in our pockets, purses and tills.

Twenty-six images – an A to Z of the nation’s most important landmarks and traditions – will feature on new 10p pieces.

The idea is to celebrate British life and trigger a national coin hunt as people try to collect all the designs.

They can also be bought from the Royal Mint which will charge £2 per coin and there will be a collector’s edition of each 10p coin struck in silver which will cost £35 – £910 for all 26.

Shoppers will be able to upload details of the coins into a smartphone app and share them on social media from which the Mint will create a heat map to show which areas are seeing the most of any one of the 26 images.

The X problem was solved by using ‘X marks the spot’, a reference to pirate maps featured in books such as Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson.

National Health Service, oak tree, post box, queuing, robin, Stonehenge, teapot, Union Flag, Village, world wide web, X marks the spot, yeoman, zebra crossing

Greenwich Mean Time, Houses of Parliament, ice cream cone, Jubilee, King Arthur, Loch Ness Monster, Mackintosh,

Coins: Angel of the North, Bond, cricket, double-decker bus, English breakfast, fish & chips,