Whereas under section 3(1)(a), (b), (c), (cc) 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 a coin other than gold coins or coins of silver of Our Maundy money and the remedy to be allowed in the making of such 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 there should be made at Our Mint a new series of coins of the denomination of two pounds in silver:

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

TWO POUND COIN

1. (1) A new coin of silver of the denomination of two pounds shall be made, being a coin of a standard weight of 31.210 grammes, a standard diameter of 38.61 millimetres, a standard composition of not less than 999 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 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 0.150 grammes; and

(b) 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 coins.

(4) The said silver coin shall be legal tender for payment of any amount in any part of Our United Kingdom.

(5) The designs of the said silver coins shall be as follows:

‘For the obverse impression Our effigy with the inscription “· ELIZABETH II · D · G · REG · F · D · 2 POUNDS · 2015” and for the reverse either:

(a) a depiction of the Duke of Wellington greeting the Prussian General Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher after the Battle of Waterloo with the inscription “THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO 1815”;

(b) airmen running to their planes with enemy aircraft overhead with the inscription “THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN 1940”;

(c) a portrait of Sir Winston Churchill with the inscription “CHURCHILL”, or;

(d) a depiction of St Paul’s Cathedral illuminated by searchlights, with the inscription “V E DAY” above and the dates “1945 – 2015”.

The coins will have a graining upon the edge.’

2. This Proclamation shall come into force on the eleventh day of June Two thousand and fifteen.

Given at Our Court at Buckingham Palace, this tenth day of June in the year of Our Lord Two thousand and fifteen and in the sixty-fourth year of Our Reign.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN