Marking Queen Elizabeth’s Platinum Jubilee, a 50p coin is being released today via the Post Office by the Royal Mint. The coin’s design will feature the number 70 on the tails side.

Around 1.3 million coins are being made available on “limited release” as Her Majesty marks 70 years of rule, with the maximum mintage capped at 5,000,070 as a nod to the achievement.

It follows the Queen using her Platinum Jubilee message to the nation to express her “sincere wish” that the Duchess of Cornwall would become known as Queen Camilla when the Prince of Wales becomes king.

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Prince Charles said he was “deeply conscious of the honour represented by my mother’s wish” for his wife to be known as Queen Camilla.

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Post Offices in Windsor and  Sandringham in Norfolk were among those to receive the new coin first.

Postmaster Umesh Sanghani, who runs the Dedworth Green Post Office in Windsor along with his wife Rashmita, said: “We have had many customers coming into our post office to check that we are going to get the special 50p coin. “They don’t want to miss out on this souvenir. I am a royalist. It is amazing that the Queen has reached her 70th anniversary. I am really looking forward to the celebrations this year,” he added.