Britannia

Britannia is regarded as the national personification of the United Kingdom.

She is usually depicted as a young woman with brown hair. She wares a Corinthian helmet and white robes. During the Victorian period she began to be depicted holding Poseidon's three-pronged trident and often stood in the ocean, this represented British naval power. Beside her is a Greek shield which sported the Union Flag, and a British Lion. Today she may also be holding, in one out stretched arm, an olive branch, as on the British Fifty pince piece.