Whereas under section 3(1)(a), (b), (cc), (cd), (d) and (dd) 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 composition of coins other than gold coins or coins of silver of Our Maundy money, and the remedy to be allowed in the making of such coins, to provide for the manner of measurement of the variation from the standard weight of coins, and to determine the percentage of impurities which such coins may contain:

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 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), (dd) 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:

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 38.610 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 28.28 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 dimensions 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.

DESIGN OF THE COINS

3. 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 · 5 POUNDS · 2016”, and for the reverse either:

(a) troops accompanying a tank across the battlefield with the inscription “· 1914 THE FIRST WORLD WAR 1918 · SOMME ” around the coin. The said coin will have a plain edge and in incuse letters the inscription “DEAD MEN CAN ADVANCE NO FURTHER”;

(b) an effigy of Jack Cornwell accompanied by an image of a naval gun and a battleship with the inscription “1914 THE FIRST WORLD WAR 1918” and “JACK CORNWELL VC” around the coin; separated by poppy flowers attached with barbed wire. The said coin will have a plain edge and in incuse letters the inscription “MOTHER, DON’T WATCH FOR POSTIE”;

(c) a depiction of battleships under fire and the inscription “· 1914 THE FIRST WORLD WAR 1918 · JUTLAND” around the coin. The said coin will have a plain edge and in incuse letters the inscription “OUR CHILDREN SHALL MEASURE THEIR WORTH”;

(d) a depiction of a naval gun on a Dreadnought and the inscription “1914 THE FIRST WORLD WAR 1918”. The said coin will have a plain edge and in incuse letters the inscription “WATCH-DOGS OF THE NATION”;

(e) a line of troops walking across the battlefield accompanied by the inscription “THERE SHALL BE IN THAT RICH EARTH A RICHER DUST CONCEALED” and the inscription “1914 THE FIRST WORLD WAR 1918”. The said coin will have a plain edge and in incuse letters the inscription “THE TRUTH UNTOLD, THE PITY OF WAR”; or

(f) a group of soldiers sat in a trench and the inscription “· 1914 THE FIRST WORLD WAR 1918 · ARMY”. The said coin will have a plain edge and in incuse letters the inscription “MEN WHO MARCH AWAY”.’

4. This Proclamation shall come into force on the fifth day of May Two thousand and sixteen.

Given at Our Court at Buckingham Palace, this fourth day of May in the year of Our Lord Two thousand and sixteen and in the sixty-fifth year of Our Reign.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN