The U.K celebrates its 50th anniversary of the Pride movement across the nation and mint this wonderful rainbow 50p coin.
The coin features Pride in London’s values of Protest, Visibility, Unity, and Equality in rainbows with the Pride progression flag.
Dominque Holmes is the creator, an east London artist, writer, and LGBTQ+ activist.
This will be the first time the LGBTQ+ community has been celebrated on official UK coin.
This commemorative 50p has been created through a partnership between Pride in London and the Royal Mint and a donation will be made to London LGBT Community Pride as part of the launch.
It was “a privilege” to see the coin being made at the Royal Mint, said Asad Shaykh, Pride in London’s director of marketing and communications.
“It humbles me greatly that the words that I coined for the brand- protest, visibility, unity and equality – will be on an actual coin, opposite the Queen,” he said.
“Nowhere in the world had this been possible, except the UK. Pride in London feels very proud today.” they added.
‘Milestone celebration’
The LGBT+ Pride parade is organised and has been since 2013 by Pride in London including this year’s on Saturday 2 July 2022
In 1972 the UK’s first pride protest march was held in London, now the annual event welcomes more than 1.5 million people onto the city streets.
The Royal Mint’s director of commemorative coin, Clare Maclennan, told the BBC the anniversary was “a milestone celebration” and would use hi-tech colour printing technology to “capture the spirit of Pride UK”.
She added the 50p will not enter circulation but will be available online.