Whereas under section 3(1)(c) and (h) of the Coinage Act 1971 We have power, with the advice of Our Privy Council, by Proclamation to determine the weight of certain gold coins to be made at Our Mint, and to alter any Proclamation previously made under the said section:

And Whereas by Our Proclamation dated the tenth day of November 2021 We determined, among other matters, the specifications and designs for a new series of coins of the denomination of fifty pence in gold piedfort:

And Whereas it appears to Us desirable to determine a new standard weight for the said gold piedfort coins:

We, therefore, in pursuance of the said section 3(1)(c) and (h) 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:

1. In paragraph 9(1) of Our said Proclamation of the tenth day of November 2021, for

‘A new coin of gold of the denomination of fifty pence shall be made, being a coin of a standard weight of 15.5 grammes, a standard diameter of 27.3 millimetres, a millesimal fineness of 916.7, and being in the shape of an equilateral curve heptagon.’

there shall be substituted:

‘A new coin of gold of the denomination of fifty pence shall be made, being a coin of a standard weight of 31 grammes, a standard diameter of 27.3 millimetres, a millesimal fineness of 916.7, and being in the shape of an equilateral curve heptagon.’.

2. This Proclamation shall come into force on the fourteenth day of April Two thousand and twenty-two.

Given at Our Court at Windsor Castle, this thirteenth day of April in the year of Our Lord Two thousand and twenty-two and in the seventy-first year of Our Reign.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN