Stephen Taylor

contemporary · Public-competition designer; 2011 Olympic Football 50p

British amateur designer whose design for the 2011 Olympic Football 50p won a Royal Mint public competition for the London 2012 Games series. Taylor's reverse depicts a diagram of the offside rule — possibly the most-discussed coin design in modern British history. The Football 50p has the lowest mintage of the entire Olympic 29-coin set at 1,125,500, partly because the design was produced last. The "offside rule" 50p became iconic as a piece that explained an obscure rule to a generation of UK collectors.

Notable works

2011 Olympic Football 50p Mintage 1,125,500 — rarest of the 29 Olympic 50p designs.
Public competition entry One of thousands of designs submitted for the Olympic series.

Catalogue work

Specific catalogue attribution for Stephen Taylor is being added. Their notable works listed above include all the major coins associated with this designer.

Other UK coin designers

Benedetto Pistrucci William Wyon Leonard Charles Wyon Bertram Mackennal Mary Gillick Arnold Machin Raphael Maklouf Ian Rank-Broadley Jody Clark Martin Jennings Christopher Le Brun Christopher Ironside Matthew Dent Stephen Taylor Edwina Ellis Tom Hockenhull Bruce Rushin Stephen Raw

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