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Jun. 2nd, 2005 08:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sigmonsterWell, that's mildly annoying. The 2007 pound coin will have the Gateshead Millenium bridge on the reverse. It ought to have been the Humber Bridge, which really is iconic.
(This year's coin design has the Menai Straits bridge, 2006 has the Egyptian Arch bridge in Nothern Ireland.)
(This year's coin design has the Menai Straits bridge, 2006 has the Egyptian Arch bridge in Nothern Ireland.)
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Date: 2005-06-02 02:39 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-06-02 05:13 pm (UTC)The immediate cause is that this set of four designs won an open competition about three years ago. Presumably the Mint thought bridges are important and shiny bits of engineering and pretty and meaningful in a "humankind as social beings" way. There's a concrete footbridge over the M1, a little way north of Meadowhall, that fills me with joy - it's just one perfect line sitting on top of two more.
Um. I really don't spend *much* time thinking about this, you understand. But it really should have been the Humber Bridge.