The Royal Mint unveils new coins that celebrate the King's 75th birthday along with one that honors The Lord of the Rings author JRR Tolkien. King Charles III gets a special five-pound note for the occasion and JRR Tolkien is seen in a monogrammed design. It is detailed within a circle with a runic pattern that is made by artist David Lawrence on a two-pound coin.
With a closer look at the coin, it reads "not all those who wander are lost," which is a quote from one of his poems that is inscribed onto the edge. King Charles III is the head of the coin and Tolkien's monogram adorns the back. Lawrence explains that “JRR Tolkien’s monogram is an elegant creation: a mysterious symbol redolent of alchemical signs and magical scripts… I quickly saw that this had to be central to the design.”
Image Credit: The Royal Mint
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