<P> Between 1985 and 1997 the portrait by Raphael Maklouf was used, in which the Queen wears the George IV State Diadem . In 1992 the metal used in minting this coin was switched from bronze to copper - plated steel . </P> <P> Between 1998 and 2015 the portrait by Ian Rank - Broadley has been used, again featuring the tiara, with a signature - mark IRB below the portrait . </P> <P> As of June 2015, coins bearing the portrait by Jody Clark have been seen in circulation . </P> <P> In August 2005 the Royal Mint launched a competition to find new reverse designs for all circulating coins apart from the £ 2 coin . The winner, announced in April 2008, was Matthew Dent, whose designs were gradually introduced into circulating British coinage from mid-2008 . The designs for the 1p, 2p, 5p, 10p, 20p and 50p coins depict sections of the Royal Shield that form the whole shield when placed together . The entire shield is featured on the £ 1 coin . The 1p coin depicts the left section between the first and third quarter of the shield, representing England and Northern Ireland . The coin's obverse remains largely unchanged, but the beading (the ring of dots around the coin's circumference), which no longer features on the coin's reverse, has also been removed from the obverse . </P>

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