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The Royal Mint has unveiled a selection of new coins to commemorate historic British anniversaries in 2014 - including the start of the First World War.
New designs for five denominations of coins, including a 50 pence piece to mark the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow next year, will go into circulation.
There will also be two new £2 coins, including one paying tribute to the 500th anniversary of Trinity House, the coastal defences that have protected British waters since 1514.
The other commemorates the outbreak of the Great War, mimicking the instantly recognisable call to arms by War Secretary Lord Kitchener and his pointing finger.
The decision is likely to raise eyebrows as the slogan is now associated by some with the devastation that followed - the deaths of millions of young men who had signed up for the Army as hopeful volunteers.
The choice of Lord Kitchener's famous image may prove controversial with those who see the poppy as a more enduring and fitting image to commemorate the start of the deadly conflict, sparked on July 28, 1914.
Kevin Clancy, director of the Royal Mint Museum, said the coin was the first in a series that would follow the progress of the war over the next five years.
"There is a programme of coins to mark the centenary of the beginning of the First World War," he said.
"They will track its way over the next five years, but there will be a £2 coin to mark the outbreak of the war next year and it's got a very familiar design: Lord Kitchener pointing out from the face of the coin as he did from the contemporary posters asking people at the time to sign up for the army."
In 2014, the floral-emblem £1 coins, which began last year with a rose for England and a daffodil for Wales, will continue with the addition of coins featuring a thistle for Scotland or a flax plant for Northern Ireland.
New designs for five denominations of coins, including a 50 pence piece to mark the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow next year, will go into circulation.
There will also be two new £2 coins, including one paying tribute to the 500th anniversary of Trinity House, the coastal defences that have protected British waters since 1514.
The other commemorates the outbreak of the Great War, mimicking the instantly recognisable call to arms by War Secretary Lord Kitchener and his pointing finger.
The decision is likely to raise eyebrows as the slogan is now associated by some with the devastation that followed - the deaths of millions of young men who had signed up for the Army as hopeful volunteers.
The choice of Lord Kitchener's famous image may prove controversial with those who see the poppy as a more enduring and fitting image to commemorate the start of the deadly conflict, sparked on July 28, 1914.
Kevin Clancy, director of the Royal Mint Museum, said the coin was the first in a series that would follow the progress of the war over the next five years.
"There is a programme of coins to mark the centenary of the beginning of the First World War," he said.
"They will track its way over the next five years, but there will be a £2 coin to mark the outbreak of the war next year and it's got a very familiar design: Lord Kitchener pointing out from the face of the coin as he did from the contemporary posters asking people at the time to sign up for the army."
In 2014, the floral-emblem £1 coins, which began last year with a rose for England and a daffodil for Wales, will continue with the addition of coins featuring a thistle for Scotland or a flax plant for Northern Ireland.
The new £2 coin featuring British coastal defence, Trinity House [PA]
Kitchener's famous Great War clarion call adorns the new £2 coin [PA]
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