Finally magic money! The famous little wizard Harry Potter will appear on a series of coins in the United Kingdom, including one of 50 pence, revealed Thursday Royal Mint, the British organization in charge of printing currency and banknotes.
‘Royal Mint launches a collection of sorcerous coins to celebrate the 25th anniversary of ‘Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone’, the first volume of the phenomenally successful wizard and fantasy adventures created by author JK Rowling , details the press release on Thursday.
The series will include four pieces including a portrait of the famous bespectacled wizard but also the Hogwarts Express train, Professor Albus Dumbledore and the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
A thunderbolt
The pieces notably include an optical effect which imitates the impact of a ‘thunderbolt’ when it is rotated in front of the light, obtained thanks to a state-of-the-art laser which gives both a ‘magical’ character to the coins, but also makes it possible to secure and authenticate them, specifies Royal Mint.
Launched in 1997, the seven-volume novel series chronicles the adventures of a young wizard named Harry Potter at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and his fight once morest Lord Voldemort, a dark wizard in search of immortality. Sales of books in this saga amount to hundreds of millions of dollars while the 8 films have generated billions of dollars in revenue.
The collector coins unveiled Thursday by Royal Mint also include two coins illustrated with portraits of British Queen Elizabeth II, who died last month, and two others with the official portrait of British King Charles III, details the press release.
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