HELENSBURGH TV inventor John Logie Baird could be featured on a new coin to be issued by the Royal Mint — if enough people voted for him online.
He faced stiff competition from Jane Austen, Douglas Bader, Sir Walter Raleigh, Emmeline Pankhurt and John Lennon to become the next Great Briton, which, when chosen, will feature on a coin to be struck by the Royal Mint and made available later in the year.
The Great Britons Set is considered by the Royal Mint to be one of the most exciting collections that it has ever produced.
With so many Great Britons who have excelled in the political, scientific and literary fields, the Royal Mint carefully chose a selection of some of the greatest men and women in British history to remember and immortalise on the ‘Great Britons’ coinage.
Already in the collection are Sir Winston Churchill, Queen Elizabeth I, Bobby Moore, Queen Victoria, Charles Darwin, Sir Isaac Newton, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, William Shakespeare, Robert Falcon Scott, Florence Nightingale, Charles Dickens, Admiral Lord Horatio Nelson, Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, Captain James Cook, Sir Alexander Fleming, Diana Princess of Wales, Sir Edward Elgar, 1st Viscount Montgomery, King Henry VIII, Sir Christopher Wren, Sir Francis Drake, John Constable, Oliver Cromwell, and Sir Alexander Graham Bell.
The closing date for votes was July 31 2010. For further details, visit this link.
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