Day: June 2, 2018

• Get your hands on a ‘fish and chips’ design 10 pence piece from The Royal Mint in celebration of one of Britain’s favourite dishes
• 26 new 10 pence piece designs have been unveiled as part of The Great British Coin Hunt, celebrating what makes Britain great

Yesterday (1 June marked National Fish and Chips Day, and to celebrate this Great British dish, The Royal Mint has partnered with a selection* of fish and chip shops across Great Britain and Northern Ireland to release a limited number of special ‘fish and chip’ design 10p coins into tills from this weekend.

Created as part of The Great British Coin Hunt, the ‘Fish and Chips’ 10p coin celebrates one of the many things that makes Britain great. It was voted as the most quintessentially British dish according to the public (52%), beating a Sunday Roast (23%) and Cream Tea (7.4%).

To get your hands on one of these special 10p coins, visitors must simply make a cash purchase in one of a number of selected fish and chip shops across the UK and Northern Ireland. Alternatively, the coins are available to purchase from The Royal Mint in a range of finishes, from uncirculated to silver proof.

Additional coins launched as part of The Great British Coin Hunt include cricket and the Loch Ness monster (below). The 26 coins map out the A-Z of what makes Britain great – from the Angel of the North to a Zebra Crossing.

Accompanying the physical Great British Coin Hunt collection, The Royal Mint has introduced the Great British Coin Hunt app, allowing coin hunters to create a digital collection of the coins they find in their change.

Users can download the app for free from the App Store or Google Play, to scan the coin with their camera, unlocking exclusive content and placing their coin into a digital folder. They can also link the app to their social media to share the treasures they find in their pockets and wallets.

A heat-map within the app shows where different coins are being found around the country and users can even use the app to have a go at designing their own coin.

The entire collection has been rolling out into circulation across the country and will be available at selected Post Offices. A collectors’ folder, and silver proof and uncirculated versions of the 10p coins are available to purchase from The Royal Mint website.

For more information visit www.royalmint/coinhunt

* Fish and chip shops where the special 10p coins can be found from this weekend

Fish and Chips@Weston Grove	Unit 1 Weston Grove, Upton	Chester	Cheshire	CH21QL
Frydays of Kendal	6 New Road	Kendal	Cumbria	LA9 4AY
Fylde Fish Bar	117 Fylde Road, Marshside	Southport	Merseyside	PR9 9XP
Golden Carp Chippy	Unit 8 Matchborough Centre	Redditch	Worcestershire	B98 0EP
Harlees Corfe	159 Wareham Road	Corfe Mullen	Dorset	BH21 3LB
Harlees Verwood	94 Manor Road, Verwood		Dorset	BH31 6EB
Harlees Poole Quay	Harbourside, Poole Quay	Poole	Dorset	BH15 1HJ
Harlees Amesbury	3 Bence Court, Archers Way, Amesbury,		Wiltshire	SP4 7FR
Harlees The Parade Swanage	1 The Parade, Swanage	Dorset	Dorset	BH19 1DA
Harlees Salisbury	10 Butcher Row	Salisbury	Wiltshire	SP1 1EP
Harlees Herston	355 High Street, Swanage		Dorset	BH19 2NP
Penaluna’s Famous Fish & Chips	35a/36 High Street, Hirwaun , RCT	Hirwaun	Rhondda Cynon Taf	CF44 8SW
Quayside Restaurant & Fish Bar	West Quay, Gourdon	Gourdon	Aberdeenshire	DD10 0NN
Silverfin Traditional Fish and Chips	Unit 8b Greenbank Service Station, Warrenpoint Road	Newry	County Armagh	BT4 2PF
The Esk Cafe	4 English Street	Longtown	Cumbria	CA6 5SD
The Fish Factory	51-53 Brighton Road	Worthing	Sussex	BN11 3EE
The Fish Works	3 The Promenade	Largs	Ayrshire	KA30 8BG