(Warning: this post occurred before coffee) The Brits are bringing sexy back...

I know it seems a confusing statement, perhaps; they are, after all, British. This is not to say that Brits can't be sexy, it's just that I don't normally think of them as a bunch who "bring the sexy," so to speak. That is a job I normally leave to the French, their better dressed and better fed neighbors. The design for the new UK coins is out and here's what they look like.

I'm pleased with the choice. The designer of these new coins is Matthew Dent, a 26 year old Welsh man, proving once again that it's the young who seem best equipped to bring the sexy, especially to the Royal Mint, of all unsexy places. (There is, of course, a cut-off for this age statement. Below 20 or 21 one starts to encounter frighteningly unsexy things in the land of adolescent tastes.)

Hooray for the UK and its hot new coinage. Now, the issue of these coins still being in Pounds and not Euros is a whole other issue...