DETERMINING THE SPECIFICATIONS AND DESIGNS FOR A NEW SERIES OF FIVE POUND COINS IN GOLD AND SILVER COMMEMORATING THE HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR

ELIZABETH R.

Whereas under section 3(1)(a), (b), (c), (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 fineness of certain gold coins, the remedy to be allowed in the making of such coins and their least current weight, and 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, 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 a new series of coins of the denomination of five pounds in gold and in silver:

We, therefore, in pursuance of the said section 3(1)(a), (b), (c), (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:

FIVE POUND 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 38.61 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.

FIVE POUND 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 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 0.45 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. (1) The design of the said five pound gold and silver coins shall be as follows:

‘For the obverse impression Our effigy with the inscription “· ELIZABETH II · D · G · REG · F · D · 5 POUNDS · 2018”, and for the reverse either:

(a) a portrait of T.E. Lawrence, accompanied by an image of soldiers on camels with the inscription “1914 THE FIRST WORLD WAR 1918” and “T.E. LAWRENCE” 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 “I WROTE MY WILL ACROSS THE SKY IN STARS”; or

(b) a depiction of the aftermath of the Battle of Ypres, showing British soldiers by a grave and the inscription “· 1914 THE FIRST WORLD WAR 1918 · YPRES”. The said coin shall have a plain edge and in incuse letters the inscription “HERE WAS THE WORLD’S WORST WOUND”; or

(c) a view of a First World War tank and the inscription “1914 THE FIRST WORLD WAR 1918”. The said coin shall have a plain edge and in incuse letters the inscription “THE DEVIL IS COMING”; or

(d) a view of a woman working in a factory and the inscription “1914 THE FIRST WORLD WAR 1918”. The said coin shall have a plain edge and in incuse letters the inscription “ON HER THEIR LIVES DEPEND”; or

(e) a depiction of a bi-plane from the First World War and the inscription “· 1914 THE FIRST WORLD WAR 1918 · ROYAL AIR FORCE”. The said coin shall have a plain edge and in incuse letters the inscription “TUMULT IN THE CLOUDS”; or

(f) a design showing a Victory Medal on a letter in front of a family portrait and the inscription “1914 THE FIRST WORLD WAR 1918”. The said coin shall have a plain edge and in incuse letters the inscription “THE WATCHERS BY LONELY HEARTHS”.’

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

Given at Our Court at Buckingham Palace, this fourteenth day of March in the year of Our Lord Two thousand and eighteen and in the sixty-seventh year of Our Reign.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN