Cash is… chocolate

As reported by the BBC:

A chocolatier has created six giant edible coins to mark the opening of a new banking hub in Essex.

Jen Lindsey-Clark spent 80 hours designing and creating the chocolate coins, which are roughly the size of dinner plates and are replicas of historic British tender.

She was commissioned to celebrate the 200th banking hub run by Cash Access UK, which opened in Billericay.

The first customers could get a glimpse of the coins on Thursday and local Conservative MP Richard Holden said: "Anything that encourages people to the High Street has got to be a good thing."

The coins were made using 15kg in chocolate and more than 10g of metallic lustre dust.

To accurately recreate each coin, 3D moulds were filled with hand-poured chocolate ahead of being set and embellished.

The collection includes mimics of a Roman Denarius - which was a common silver coin - a medieval Henry VI noble, and a two-piece shilling.

A limited number of standard-size versions of the chocolate coins were also given out to a lucky few.