At the Court at Buckingham Palace the 19th day of May 1998

Present,

The Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty in Council

  It is this day ordered by Her Majesty in Council that the Right Honourable the Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain do cause the Great Seal of the Realm to be affixed to the Proclamation of this day’s date altering the Proclamation of the 21st July 1987 and the Proclamation of the 22nd July 1997 determining a new inscription for one hundred-pound, fifty-pound, twenty-five-pound and ten-pound gold coins, and two-pound, one pound, fifty pence and twenty pence silver coins. N. H. Nicholls