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    Essex artist paints famous UK landmarks on coins to show ‘beauty’ of miniature

    by Danielle Desouza Mar 16, 2024 2 minutes

    An Essex-based artist has painted scenes of famous British landmarks to the Mona Lisa on coins to showcase the “beauty” of miniature.

    Yvonne Jack was exhibiting a mixture of art pieces at a pop-up gallery in Southend-on-Sea in March 2022, which soon led to her dabbling in painting on pre-decimal coins – coins struck before the change to decimal coinage in 1971.

    “The woman that ran the pop-up gallery, told the PA news agency.

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