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, the remedy to be allowed in making 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)(f) and (ff) of the Coinage Act 1971 We have power, with the advice of Our Privy Council, by Proclamation to direct that coins made at Our Mint other than gold, silver, cupro-nickel and bronze coins shall be current and 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 silver:

We, therefore, in pursuance of the said section 3(1)(a), (b), (cc), (cd), (d), (dd), (f) 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 38.608 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 28.276 grammes, a standard diameter of 38.608 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 0.13 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 FIVE POUNDS · 2015”, and for the reverse a depiction of troops landing on the beaches below a map showing the Gallipoli landings with the inscription “· 1914 THE FIRST WORLD WAR 1918 · GALLIPOLI” around the coin. The said coin will have a plain edge and in incuse letters the inscription “HEROES THAT SHED THEIR BLOOD”.’

4. This Proclamation shall come into force on the sixth day of November Two thousand and fourteen.

Given at Our Court at Buckingham Palace, this fifth day of November in the year of Our Lord Two thousand and fourteen and in the sixty-third year of Our Reign.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN