Whereas under section 3(1)(a), (b), (cc), (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 composition of coins other than gold coins or coins of silver of Our Maundy money, and the remedy to be allowed in the making of such coins, and to provide for the manner of measurement of the variation from the standard weight of coins:

And Whereas under section 3(1)(ff) of the Coinage Act 1971 We have power, with the advice of Our Privy Council, by Proclamation to direct that any coin shall be legal tender for the payment of any amount:

And Whereas it appears to Us desirable to order that, to commemorate the hundredth anniversary of the First World War, there should be made at Our Mint new coins of the denomination of five pounds in gold and in silver:

We, therefore, in pursuance of the said section 3(1)(a), (b), (cc), (cd), (d) and (ff), 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:

GOLD COIN

1. (1) A new coin of gold of the denomination of five pounds shall be made, being a coin of a standard diameter of 38.610 millimetres, and being circular in shape.

(2) In the making of the said gold coin a remedy (that is a variation from the standard diameter specified above) shall be allowed of an amount not exceeding 0.125 millimetres per coin.

(3) The variation from the standard weight will be measured as the average of a sample of not more than one kilogram of the coin.

SILVER COIN

2. (1) A new coin of silver of the denomination of five pounds shall be made, being a coin of a standard weight of 28.28 grammes, a standard diameter of 38.61 millimetres, a standard composition of 925 parts per thousand fine silver, and being circular in shape.

(2) In the making of the said silver coin a remedy (that is, a variation from the standard weight, composition or dimensions 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 0.45 grammes;

(b) a variation from the said standard composition of five parts per thousand fine silver; and

(c) a variation from the said standard diameter of 0.125 millimetres per coin.

(3) The variation from the standard weight will be measured as the average of a sample of not more than one kilogram of the coin.

(4) The said silver coin shall be legal tender for the payment of any amount in any part of Our United Kingdom.

DESIGN OF THE COINS

3. The design of the said coins shall be as follows:

‘For the obverse impression Our effigy with the inscription “· ELIZABETH II · D · G · REG · F · D · 5 POUNDS · 2017”, and for the reverse either:

(a) a portrait of Noel Chavasse VC, accompanied by an image of him tending to a wounded soldier with the inscription “1914 THE FIRST WORLD WAR 1918” and “NOEL CHAVASSE VC” around the coin; separated by poppy flowers attached with barbed wire. The said coin shall have a plain edge and in incuse letters the inscription “DUTY CALLED AND CALLED ME TO OBEY”;

(b) a depiction of the Battle of Arras, showing howitzers with planes flying overhead and the inscription “· 1914 THE FIRST WORLD WAR 1918 · ARRAS”. The said coin shall have a plain edge and in incuse letters the inscription “THE MONSTROUS ANGER OF THE GUNS”;

(c) a view of a Sopwith Camel shown from directly in front of the propeller and the inscription “1914 THE FIRST WORLD WAR 1918”. The said coin shall have a plain edge and in incuse letters the inscription “IRRITATUS LACESSIT CRABRO”;

(d) an image of a First World War gas mask and the inscription “1914 THE FIRST WORLD WAR 1918”. The said coin shall have a plain edge and in incuse letters the inscription “GUTTERING, CHOKING, DROWNING”;

(e) a depiction of a First World War medical station with troops carrying a stretcher and the inscription “· 1914 THE FIRST WORLD WAR 1918 · MEDICAL SERVICES”. The said coin shall have a plain edge and in incuse letters the inscription “IN ARDUIS FIDELIS”; or

(f) a design showing a war artist sketching a line of soldiers who have been gassed and the inscription “1914 THE FIRST WORLD WAR 1918”. The said coin shall have a plain edge and in incuse letters the inscription “WAR AS IT IS”.’

4. This Proclamation shall come into force on the fifteenth day of June Two thousand and seventeen.

Given at Our Court at Buckingham Palace, this fourteenth day of June in the year of Our Lord Two thousand and seventeen and in the sixty-sixth year of Our Reign.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN