A Worcestershire company has beaten off international competition to produce the official medals to mark the Queen's Diamond Jubilee.
Bromsgrove-based Worcestershire Medal Services (WMS) has been awarded a £7m contract.
Some 450,000 medals will be made in Birmingham's Jewellery Quarter and mounted at the Bromsgrove factory.
They will be officially launched on 6 February, the anniversary of the Queen's accession.
Company owner Phil McDermott said: "This is real David and Goliath stuff, it's the biggest medals contract that has been put out by the government since the end of the First World War."
The contract was tendered across Europe, with the company successfully beating off competition from the Royal Mint among others.
Medal enthusiast Mr McDermott said he had started WMS in 1988 with just £120.
Read more - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hereford-worcester-15991428
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