A new fifty pence coin for 2021 will be released to commemorate the TV pioneer John Logie Baird. He was born in Helensburgh in Scotland in 1888.
Baird will feature as one of three new designs to be released in 2021.
The collector’s items – some of which will also serve as legal tender – will come in gold, standard silver, silver piedfort and cupro-nickel and will be inscribed with the words “John Logie Baird Television Pioneer”, along with an illustration of a television mast emitting circular radio waves with a series of dates relating to the inventor and the dates “1888” and “1946” next to the mast.
Other designs for the new coins will be inscribed with the words “1971 Decimal Day” along with a range of pre-decimal coins and symbols illustrating individual Olympic sports accompanied by the Olympic Rings, the Team GB logo, with the words “Team GB” and the date 2020 inscribed.
Baird successfully demonstrated the world’s first working television set in 1926 and carried out many of his early experiments in the bedroom of his first home, a category B listed building which went on the market earlier this year for offers over £625,000.
Original source: https://www.helensburghadvertiser.co.uk/news/18896706.john-logie-baird-feature-new-50-pence-coin-2021/
