A PROCLAMATION

DETERMINING THE SPECIFICATIONS AND DESIGN FOR A NEW TWENTY-FIVE POUND GOLD COIN

ELIZABETH R.

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 coin of the denomination of twenty-five 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:

TWENTY-FIVE POUND GOLD COIN

1. (1) A new coin of gold of the denomination of twenty-five pounds shall be made, being a coin of a standard weight of 7.8 grammes, a standard diameter of 22 millimetres, a millesimal fineness of not less than 999.9, 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 0.025 grammes; and

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

(3) The least current weight of the said gold coin shall be 7.75 grammes.

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

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

‘For the obverse impression Our effigy with the inscription “· ELIZABETH II · D · G · REG · F · D · 25 POUNDS” and a depiction of a beam balance set against a decorative background with the inscription “· 1/4 OZ FINE GOLD · 999.9 ·” and the date of the year. The coin shall have a grained edge.’

2. This Proclamation shall come into force on the fourteenth day of December Two thousand and seventeen.

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

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN