Stephen Hawking’s legacy is being honoured by the Royal Mint with a new 50 pence piece. The new coin — which was inspired by Hawking’s work on black holes outlined in his bestselling book “A Brief History of Time” — has an engraving of the late scientist’s name along with an illustration of concentric circles, supposed to depict a black hole.
It also sports Hawking’s famous equation on the black hole theory. The coin was made for a commemoration edition, which is not circulated as normal change.