BY THE QUEEN A ProclamationDETERMINING THE SPECIFICATIONS AND DESIGN FOR FIVE-POUND COINS COMMEMORATING THE ONE-HUNDREDTH YEAR OF HER MAJESTY QUEEN ELIZABETH THE QUEEN MOTHER ELIZABETH R. Whereas under section 3(1)(a), (b), (cc), (d) and (dd) of the Coinage Act 1971 We have power, with the advice of Our Privy Council, by Proclamation to determine the denomination, design, dimensions, weight and composition of coins to be made at Our Mint, and to determine the remedy to be allowed in the making of such coins and the percentage of impurities which they may contain: And Whereas it appears to Us desirable to order that, in celebration of the one-hundredth year of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth Our Mother, there should be made at Our Mint in gold, in silver and in cupro-nickel, coins of the denomination of five pounds: We, therefore, in pursuance of the said section 3(1)(a), (b), (cc), (d) and (dd) 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:- GOLD COIN 1. A new coin of gold of the denomination of five pounds shall be made, being a coin of a standard diameter of 38.608 millimetres, and being circular in shape. 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 28.2759 grammes, a standard diameter of 38.608 millimetres, and a standard composition of thirty-seven-fortieths fine silver and three-fortieths alloy, or a millesimal fineness 925, and being circular in shape. (2) In the making of the said silver coin a remedy (that is, a variation from the standard weight, diameter or composition 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 (measured as the average of a sample of not more than one kilogramme of the coin) of 0.1296 grammes; (b) a variation from the said standard diameter of 0.125 millimetres per coin; and (c) a variation from the said millesimal fineness of five per mille. 3. (1) A new coin of silver of the denomination five pounds shall be made, being a coin of a standard weight of 56.5518 grammes, a standard diameter of 38.608 millimetres, and a standard composition of thirty-seven-fortieths fine silver and three-fortieths alloy, or a millesimal fineness 925, and being circular in shape. (2) In the making of the said silver coin a remedy (that is, a variation from the standard weight, diameter or composition 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 (measured as the average of a sample of not more than one kilogramme of the coin) of 0.2150 grammes; (b) a variation from the standard diameter of 0.125 millimetres per coin; and (c) a variation from the said millesimal fineness of five per mille. CUPRO-NICKEL COIN 4. (1) A new coin of cupro-nickel of the denomination of five pounds shall be made, being a coin of a standard weight of 28.2759 grammes, a standard diameter of 38.608 millimetres, and a standard composition of seventy-five per centum copper and twenty-five per centum nickel, and being circular in shape. (2) In the making of the said cupro-nickel coin a remedy (that is, a variation from the standard weight, diameter or composition 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 (measured as the average of a sample of not more than one kilogramme of the coin) of 0.1296 grammes; (b) a variation from the said standard diameter of 0.125 millimetres per coin; and (c) a variation from the said standard composition of two per centum. DESIGN OF THE COINS 5. The design of the said coins shall be as follows:- For the obverse impression Our effigy with the inscription “ELIZABETH.II.D.G REG.F.D.” and the date of the year, and for the reverse a portrait of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth Our Mother flanked by celebratory groups of people with the inscription “QUEEN ELIZABETH THE QUEEN MOTHER”, the anniversary dates “1900-2000” and the value “FIVE POUNDS”, and below the portrait a representation of Her signature “Elizabeth R”. The coins shall have a graining upon the edge. 6. This Proclamation shall come into force on the twenty-fifth day of November One thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine. Given at Our Court at Buckingham Palace, this twenty-fourth day of November in the year of our Lord One thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine and in the forty-eighth year of Our Reign. GOD SAVE THE QUEEN