A PROCLAMATION

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), (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, 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 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 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), (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.

DESIGNS OF THE COINS

3. The designs 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 memorial poppy wreath encircling the inscription “11.00 11 NOVEMBER 1918 LEST WE FORGET 2018”. The said coin shall have a plain edge and in incuse letters the inscription “BRAVE HEROES TELL TIME’S OPEN WOUND IS WAR”; or

(b) a view of poppies and barbed wire and the inscription “REMEMBER”. The said coin shall have a plain edge and in incuse letters the inscription “ACRES OF CHILDLESS FATHERS, BRIDELESS GROOMS”; or

(c) a depiction of the Imperial War Museum with the inscription “IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUMS 1918 – 2018”. The said coin shall have a plain edge and in incuse letters the inscription “WAR WIDOWS MEMORY AND ORPHANS ART”; or

(d) a depiction of a Commonwealth War Graves cemetery and the inscription “COMMONWEALTH WAR GRAVES COMMISSION 2018”. The said coin shall have a plain edge and in incuse letters the inscription “THE UNHEALED EARTH HAS SHRAPNEL AT ITS HEART”; or

(e) a depiction of a dove flying over a First World War battlefield with the inscription “PEACE 1918”. The said coin shall have a plain edge and in incuse letters the inscription “AND THERE SHALL BE PEACE”; or

(f) a view of the Cenotaph and the inscription “THE GLORIOUS DEAD 1914 – 1918 2018”. The said coin shall have a plain edge and in incuse letters the inscription “THEIR ENDLESS GRAVES ARE SURFEITED WITH GRIEF”.’

4. This Proclamation shall come into force on the twenty-eighth day of June Two thousand and eighteen.

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

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN