A Rabat school pupil designed a new two-euro coin which displays a series of traditional children’s games will be amongst people’s loose change this week.
Ymen Riahi’s design illustrates games such as marbles, kite-flying and a Maltese version of hop-scotch, which is known locally as passju. The schoolboy, who attends St Nicholas Middle School also designed on the coin three bees flying in a circle, alluding to a popular chant sung by children during play.
Ymen’s coin is the final coin of a series of five designed by pupils from the ‘From Children in Solidarity’ programme created in 2015 by the Central Bank of Malta, in collaboration with the Ministry of Education and the Malta Community Chest Fund Foundation.
The coin also has the name of the issuing country, Malta, engraved on it with the year of issue, 2020.
The Malta Community Chest Fund Foundation will receive the profits from the sale of the coin cards.
The commemorative coin will be issued today (14th December 2020) by the Central Bank of Malta and can be purchased from the Malta Coin Centre or be pre-ordered from Friday.
The coins were struck in circulation quality at the Monnaie de Paris in France and will be issued in rolls of 25 coins each as well as in coin cards. The issue is limited to 220,000 coins, of which 200,000 will be issued in rolls and 20,000 will be available in cards. The cost of a roll of 25 coins is €70, while that of a coin card is €7.
For more information, contact the Malta Coin Centre via email on [email protected] or by calling (+356) 2550 6006/7/8.
Original article source: https://timesofmalta.com/articles/view/rabat-pupil-designs.838202
