Change

Age has, alas, withered me a little, and my 8-year old daughter’s eyesight vastly outshines mine. The other day, she pointed out a tiny detail below the Queen’s head on a pound coin: there, writ very small indeed, are two letters, ‘JC’. It turns out that these are the initials of artist Jody Clark, whose bas-relief portrait of the Queen has featured on the obverse of all British coins since 2015. As such, this piece of design has been reproduced well over five billion times, and has passed through all of our hands on countless occasions. I will concede that,