Sand artists recreated a pristine 50p coin marking 80 years since D-Past on a Normandy seashore the place troops landed in 1944.
Jehan-Benjamin Tarain, with aid from Sam Dougados, drew the design within the sand of Gold seashore.
It got here because the Royal Mint evident the pristine coin; its “tails” facet depicts Allied squaddies disembarking a touchdown craft directly to the seashores of France with offensive airplane within the sky above.
The sand artwork is 35 metres in diameter and took 5 hours and half-hour to finish.