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 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 there should be made at Our Mint a coin of the denomination of one penny in silver and in the denomination of one penny in mild steel coated with copper:

We, therefore, in pursuance of the said section 3(1)(a), (b), (cc), (cd), (d), (dd), (f), (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:

ONE PENNY SILVER COIN

1. (1) A new coin of silver of the denomination of one penny shall be made, being a coin of a standard weight of 3.564 grammes, a standard diameter of 20.32 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 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 of 0.08 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.

ONE PENNY MILD STEEL COATED WITH COPPER COIN

2. (1) A new coin of mild steel coated with copper of the denomination of one penny shall be made, being a coin of a standard weight of 3.564 grammes, a standard diameter of 20.32 millimetres, a standard composition of ninety-one per centum mild steel and nine per centum copper, and being circular in shape.

(2) In the making of the said mild steel coated with copper 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 of 0.165 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 an amount per coin (measured as the average of a sample of not less than 100 coins but not more than one kilogram of the coin) of four per centum of the coin as mild steel and four per centum of the coin as copper.

(3) Impurities may be present in the copper coating to the said mild steel coin in an amount not exceeding 0.5 of one per centum of the said copper coating (and, in respect of any coin, any such impurities shall be treated as copper for the purposes of sub-paragraph (2)(c) above).

(4) The variation from the standard weight will be measured as the average of a sample of not less than 100 coins but not more than one kilogram of the coin.

(5) The said mild steel coated with copper coin shall be current and shall be legal tender for the payment of any amount not exceeding twenty pence in any part of Our United Kingdom.

DESIGN OF THE COINS

3. The design of the said one penny coins shall be as follows:

‘For the obverse impression Our effigy with the inscription “· ELIZABETH II · DEI · GRA · REG · FID · DEF ·” and the date of the year and for the reverse a portcullis with chains royally crowned, being the badge of King Henry VII and His successors, the figure “1” and the words “ONE PENNY”. The coin shall have a plain edge.’

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

Given at Our Court at Buckingham Palace, this fifteenth day of November in the year of Our Lord Two thousand and seventeen and in the sixty-sixth year of Our Reign.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN