Forget the annual Easter egg hunt, eager coin collectors will be sifting through their change in 2018 with the hope of collecting a full set of brand new 10p designs.
However, to collect the full set may take some work - with 26 new ten pence pieces entering circulation from today.
The Royal Mint told This is Money that the coins, which feature an A-Z of what makes Britain great, will only be handed out in change in the Post Office's 11,500 branches.
The new coins: There are 26 coins in total, one for every letter of the alphabet
A is for Angel of the North, B for Bond - James Bond, C for cricket, D for doubledecker bus, E for English breakfast
The designs start from A, the Angel of the North, to Z, the Zebra Crossing, ticking off each letter of the alphabet. It comes as numismatics - collecting coins - has boomed in popularity in recent years.
A contributing factor in this collecting surge happened after This is Money revealed the coins that can turn up in your change worth a pretty penny, which has been read millions of times since being published in 2016 and copied by our rivals.
The 10p coin hunt will be similar to the London 2012 Olympics 50p set. Some of these 50p coins are now sought after as people look to complete their collections.
The scarcest Olympics coin, depicting the football offside rule, now regularly sells for 20 times its face value online.
Anne Jessopp, chief executive at The Royal Mint told This is Money at the launch event yesterday in London that many have asked the organisation when a similar collection to the Olympics would happen 'highlighting the popularity of coin collecting.'
We have been told that around 2.6million of the 10p coins will be minted - or around 100,000 of each 10p - but this could be higher, depending on demand. Many of the coins are likely to be saved by the public and taken out of circulation, meaning more could be made.
The low mintage figures mean some of the 10p coins could become collectors items in the future, considering that the rarest 50p coin - featuring the Kew Gardens pagoda, minted in 2009 - had a run of 210,000 and now sell for £70 upwards online.
F is for fish and chips, G is for Greenwich Mean Time, H is for House of Commons
I is for ice cream, J is for Jubilee, K is for King Arthur
What's on the coins?
Featuring on the new 10p designs are a cup of tea, fish and chips, cricket, and the Loch Ness monster.
The 26 coins map out the A-Z of what makes Britain great after a public vote. It asked for example, what the most iconic British food is - 52 per cent voted for fish and chips, beating sunday roast and cream tea.
Cricket was voted most British sport at 48 per cent, beating football with 29 per cent and rugby six per cent.
James Bond was voted favourite character from British fiction and film with nearly half the vote, beating Harry Potter, Del Boy and Miss Marple. Yes, the public missed out on putting Derek Trotter from Only Falls and Horses onto a coin.=Read more
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