Whereas under section 3(1)(cd) and (h) of the Coinage Act 1971 We have power, with the advice of Our Privy Council, by Proclamation to provide for the variation from the standard weight of 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 eleventh day of February 2015 We determined, among other matters, a new variation from the standard weight of coins of the denomination of two pounds and five pence in standard silver, and two pounds in silver piedfort:

And Whereas it appears to Us desirable to determine a new variation for the said silver coins:

We, therefore, in pursuance of the said section 3(1)(cd) 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:

In paragraph 2(2)(a) of Our said Proclamation of the eleventh day of February 2015, for ‘0.095 grammes’ there shall be substituted ‘0.250 grammes’.

In paragraph 3(2)(a) of Our said Proclamation of the eleventh day of February 2015, for ‘0.145 grammes’ there shall be substituted ‘0.370 grammes’.

In paragraph 32(2)(a) of Our said Proclamation of the eleventh day of February 2015, for ‘0.04 grammes’ there shall be substituted ‘0.10 grammes’.

4. This Proclamation shall come into force on the seventeenth day of December Two thousand and twenty.

Given at Our Court at Windsor Castle, this sixteenth day of December in the year of Our Lord Two thousand and twenty and in the sixty-ninth year of Our Reign.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN