Fiftypence shape

[joanne0012]

No: HPFGUIDX 36206

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Ronald Rae Yu <ickle_ronniekins at y...> wrote:
> 
> I just want this cleared up: what's the shape of a
> 50-pence coin for it to be thought of as weird by Ron?
> If it is polygonal, and wizard coins are round (we
> don't actually know, do we? the movie makes it round),
> then fine, weird it is. But if it is round, then it's
> a mistake on the movie's part to make the wizard coins
> round too. So... is fiftypence round or what? (I'm too
> lazy to look it up in the net.)

I've already looked it up, in preparation for a trip to England last year, so here's a 
picture of British coins.  The 50 and 20-pence pieces are indeed multisided and 
my kids thought they looked weird, too.

http://web.dcs.bbk.ac.uk/~phild/pics/coins.gif