{"id":628908,"date":"2026-06-09T08:59:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T08:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/628908\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T08:59:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T08:59:11","slug":"royal-mint-coin-to-celebrate-50-years-of-aardman-animations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/628908\/","title":{"rendered":"Royal Mint coin to celebrate 50 years of Aardman Animations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This year the animation company are celebrating 50 years of claymation! <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/newsround\/articles\/cgr101ej42no\" class=\"ssrcss-15td0ur-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Anniversary events,<\/a> the launch of a new film, and now the coin are the ways in which the company is being celebrated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Peter Lord, co-founder of Aardman, said: &#8220;I&#8217;m very proud that the story of Aardman, and the characters we&#8217;ve created over the last 50 years, are being celebrated by the work of The Royal Mint.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We love to bring pleasure and fun to our audiences, and these fabulous coins surely represent that joyous spirit.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">So, are you a fan of Aardman&#8217;s animations? Will you be getting a special coin?<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Let us know in the comments below&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This year the animation company are celebrating 50 years of claymation! Anniversary events, the launch of a new&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":628909,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-628908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=628908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628908\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/628909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=628908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=628908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=628908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}