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Professor Stephen Hawking, who died a year ago this week, was honored with a new 50 percent piece.
The drawing of the coin is inspired by Hawking's work on black holes and presents the impression of a black hole in the artist, accompanied by one of Hawking's equations appearing above his name.
The famous physicist died at the age of 76 and joined Charles Darwin and Sir Isaac Newton as one of the few scientists to appear on British coins.
Speaking of the new piece, designer Edwina Ellis said, via BBC News:
I wanted to make a big black hole on the tiny room and wish it was always there chuckling at the thought.
Ellis said that she wanted the piece to reflect how Hawking "makes difficult subjects accessible, attractive and easy to understand," especially with regards to black holes.
After visiting the Royal Mint, where the coin is made, Lucy, daughter of Prof. Hawking said:
It is a great privilege to appear on a coin and I hope my father will be happy to be with Sir Isaac Newton and Charles Darwin as successful scientists.
Professor Hawking has done a lot of work on black holes and he has talked a lot about it in his book A brief history of time. He also once told the BBC that he thought his greatest achievement was discovering that black holes were not entirely black.
Professor Hawking is only the third person in British history to be commemorated with a coin a year after their death. The first two are former Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Queen Mother.
The delivery of the coin coincided with his death, on March 14, 2018, by a motor neuron disease, diagnosed at the age of 21 years. Hawking originally had only two years to live with doctors, but he defied the age of 76 completely.
The physicist was best known for his research on black holes, with his non-fiction book A brief history of time Hawking booming to stardom. He stayed on the Sunday Times list of bestsellers for 237 weeks, sold to 10 million copies and translated into 40 different languages, according to The Guardian.
In the book, he talks about the origin, development and eventual fate of the universe. His descriptions of the Big Bang, black holes and general relativity. In addition to being a physicist and cosmologist, he has also been Director of Research at the Center for Theoretical Cosmology of the University of Cambridge.
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