 The Royal Mint has unveiled the official Team GB commemorative 50p, originally intended to be a student 2020, to honour Britain's athletes competing at this year's Olympic Games. The coin is particularly notable as it is dual-dated, so it has the year 2021 on one side and the year 2020 on the other. This will make the coin popular with collectors. The design of the coin essentially stayed the same, so, with the preparations of all the Olympic Games that were going on at the time being recognised as Tokyo 2020, that still featured as the date in the design. But it was essentially about the same way that we've had to make preparations through working over the past year and the challenges and the same way the athletes had. It's about marking that moment in time. Preparations for the actual coin design were essentially the same for the reverse of the design, which features the 2020 date. But the point of difference for this coin for 2020 is that the obverse of the future in the Queen's Head features the 2021 date. So, as a design, because there's the two coins now produced, this might be a bit more desirable to certain collectors, which is good to get that interest around collecting. The coin first appeared in the Royal Mint's 2020 annual set with both sides of the coin reading 2020. Now the coin has finally been released for collectors to buy in gold, silver, brilliant, uncirculated and colour versions. So, with the design, I wanted to feel quite inclusive for all the athletes in the Games. So, as part of that, I wanted to represent each and every sport and with a lot of icons being pictured on the coin, it was quite a difficult challenge to represent that for all the athletes. So, the first stage of the design was to have a look at all the sports and think about what could be represented in one image. For instance, the athletics is represented by the shoe, and then there's water and goggles, which represents swimming in part of the design. But yeah, it was definitely a challenge just trying to condense that all into the one canvas. So, there were a lot of revisions from the first stage of the design where just trying to represent all those games and the best sort of icon to sort of be instantly recognisable and then fusing those into the design. But another feel that I wanted the viewer to get from viewing the design was almost treated as a bit of a game themselves. So, being able to look at the design in detail and trying to guess the sports and creating a bit of a conversation around the sports that maybe aren't recognised as recent Olympic sports, such as surfing and baseball and skateboarding as well. I've been a skateboarder when I was young. It was amazing to have the first UK coin with the skateboard on. The coin is the next instalment in the long-running series of Olympic's 50p coins, which began in 2012 when the Royal Mint issued 29 Olympic coins designed by the public for the London Olympic and Paralympic Games. When released into circulation, these Olympic coins became some of the most collectible 50Ps. However, it's worth noting that the new Team GB 2021 coin will not be entered into general circulation.