Sunday Telegraph 22 February

[Jonny]

Today's paper has an article about the Royal Mint's 50p piece commemorating the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Britain.

The paper comments that the coin comes in a wallet and the Mint has managed to illustrate the Battle on it with a picture of Mk IX Spitfires. The S. Telegraph spotted that the nearest is coded JEoJ and has the green maple leaf ensignia.

The paper posted another picture of a Spitire in 'BoB colours' to show what it thinks should have been on the wallet. So well and good but this picture shows a Spitfire resplendant with Sky Spinner and rear fuselage band!

The Mint meant well, I suppose. It's nice that someone, somewhere (the Royal Mint in this case) has remembered the Battle but if they go to the trouble of illustrating it one would expect them to have a half-way accurate picture on the wallet. Equally, the Sunday Telegraph might have taken the trouble to post a picture of a real BoB vintage Spitfire. And perhaps comment that the Hurricane was ignored altogether by the Mint.