Design of Coin Celebrating Prince William and Catherine Middleton Engagement Fares Poorly with Critics, General Population

If you were in the UK over the Christmas weekend, there’s a good chance you’d have talked about coin design at one point. There’s a healthy bit of negative buzz surrounding the Royal Mint’s printing of a new £5 coin, celebrating the engagement of Prince William to Catherine Middleton (we particularly liked this piece from The Spoof). The issue is over artist Matthew Buonocorsi‘s depiction of the two, particularly Middleton, who looks like she might have had a hard, upsetting night out that at one point involved stuffing her cheeks with cotton balls and gaining 30 pounds.