Whereas under section 3(1)(a), (b), (c), (cd) and (d) of the Coinage Act 1971 We have power, with the advice of Our Privy Council, by Proclamation to determine the denomination, the design and dimensions of coins to be made at Our Mint, to determine the weight and fineness of certain gold coins, the remedy to be allowed in the making of such coins and their least current weight, and to provide for the manner of measurement of the variation from the standard weight of coins:

And Whereas it appears to Us desirable to order that there should be made at Our Mint a new series of coins of the denomination of fifteen thousand pounds in gold:

We, therefore, in pursuance of the said section 3(1)(a), (b), (c), (cd) and (d), and of all other powers enabling Us in that behalf, do hereby, by and with the advice of Our Privy Council, proclaim, direct and ordain as follows:

FIFTEEN THOUSAND POUND GOLD COIN

1. (1) A new coin of gold of the denomination of fifteen thousand pounds shall be made, being a coin of a standard weight of 15030 grammes, a standard diameter of 220 millimetres, a millesimal fineness of not less than 999, and being circular in shape.

(2) In the making of the said gold coin a remedy (that is, a variation from the standard weight or diameter specified above) shall be allowed of an amount not exceeding the following, that is to say:

(a) a variation from the said standard weight of an amount per coin of 49.95 grammes; and

(b) a variation from the said standard diameter of 1 millimetre per coin.

(3) The least current weight of the said gold coin shall be 14980 grammes.

(4) The variation from the standard weight will be measured by weighing each coin separately.

(5) The design of the said gold coin shall be as follows:

‘For the obverse impression Our effigy on horseback with the inscription “· ELIZABETH II · D · G · REG · F · D · 15000 POUNDS ·” and the date of the year, accompanied by the inscription “· HONI · SOIT · QUI · MAL · Y · PENSE ·” and for the reverse a crowned depiction of Our Royal Cypher surrounded by the floral emblems of the United Kingdom and the dates “1952 – 2022”. The coin shall have a plain edge.’

2. This Proclamation shall come into force on the sixteenth day of December Two thousand and twenty-one.

Given at Our Court at Windsor Castle, this fifteenth day of December in the year of Our Lord Two thousand and twenty-one and in the seventieth year of Our Reign.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN