BY THE QUEEN A PROCLAMATION DETERMINING THE SPECIFICATIONS AND DESIGN FOR A TWO POUND COIN COMMEMORATING THE ROLE OF THE ROYAL NAVY IN THE FIRST WORLD WAR ELIZABETH R.
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)(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 under section 6(2) of the Coinage Act 1971 We have power, with the advice of Our Privy Council, by Proclamation to prescribe the composition of the standard trial plates to be used for determining the justness of coins of any metal other than gold, silver or cupro-nickel:
And Whereas it appears to Us desirable to order that, to commemorate the role of the Royal Navy in the First World War, there should be made at Our Mint a coin of the denomination of two pounds in cupro-nickel and nickel-brass, having joined concentric inner and outer sections, being in cupro-nickel and nickel-brass with a cupro-nickel inner section and a nickel-brass outer section:
We, therefore, in pursuance of the said section 3(1)(a), (b), (cc), (cd), (d), (dd), (f) and (ff), the said section 6(2), 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:
CUPRO-NICKEL AND NICKEL-BRASS COIN
1. (1) A new coin of cupro-nickel and nickel-brass of the denomination of two pounds shall be made, being a coin of a standard weight of 12 grammes, a standard diameter of 28.4 millimetres, being circular in shape and having joined concentric inner and outer sections, with a standard composition as to the inner section of seventy-five per centum copper and twenty-five per centum nickel, and as to the outer section of seventy-six per centum copper, four per centum nickel and twenty per centum zinc.
(2) In the making of the said cupro-nickel and nickel-brass 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 0.6 grammes for the inner and outer sections;
(b) a variation from the said standard composition as to the inner section of two per centum copper and two per centum nickel, and as to the outer section of two per centum copper, three-quarters of one per centum nickel and two per centum zinc; 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 approximate diameter of the inner section shall be 20 millimetres.
(5) The inner and outer sections of the said coin may contain impurities of three-quarters of one per centum.
(6) The said cupro-nickel and nickel-brass coin shall be current and shall be legal tender for the payment of any amount in any part of Our United Kingdom.
(7) The composition of the standard trial plates to be used for determining the justness of the nickel-brass outer section of the said coin shall be pure copper, pure nickel and pure zinc.
DESIGN OF THE COIN
2. The design of the said coin shall be as follows:
‘For the obverse impression Our effigy with the inscription “· ELIZABETH II · D · G · REG · F · D · 2 POUNDS”. The reverse design shows a dreadnought at sea with the inscription “THE FIRST WORLD WAR 1914-1918” and the date “2015”. The said coin will have graining on the edge and in incuse letters the inscription “THE SURE SHIELD OF BRITAIN”.’
3. 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