Whereas under section 3(1)(cd) and (h) of the Coinage Act 1971 We have power, with the advice of Our Privy Council, by Proclamation to provide for the variation from the standard weight of coins to be made at Our Mint, and to alter any Proclamation previously made under the said section:

And Whereas by Our Proclamation dated the eleventh day of February 2015 We determined, among other matters, a new variation from the standard weight of coins of the denomination of fifty pence and two pence in silver, fifty pence and twenty pence in cupro-nickel and two pounds in cupro-nickel and nickel-brass:

And Whereas it appears to Us desirable to determine a new variation for the said silver, cupro-nickel and cupro-nickel and nickel-brass coins:

We, therefore, in pursuance of the said section 3(1)(cd) and (h) 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:

1. In paragraph 4(2)(a) of Our said Proclamation of the eleventh day of February 2015, for ‘0.1 grammes’ there shall be substituted ‘0.5 grammes’.

2. In paragraph 14(2)(a) of Our said Proclamation of the eleventh day of February 2015, for ‘0.075 grammes’ there shall be substituted ‘0.17 grammes’.

3. In paragraph 16(2)(a) of Our said Proclamation of the eleventh day of February 2015, for ‘0.045 grammes’ there shall be substituted ‘0.35 grammes’.

4. In paragraph 22(2)(a) of Our said Proclamation of the eleventh day of February 2015, for ‘0.03 grammes’ there shall be substituted ‘0.19 grammes’.

5. In paragraph 38(2)(a) of Our said Proclamation of the eleventh day of February 2015, for ‘0.065 grammes’ there shall be substituted ‘0.165 grammes’.

6. This Proclamation shall come into force on the thirteenth day of December Two thousand and eighteen.

Given at Our Court at Buckingham Palace, this twelfth day of December in the year of Our Lord Two thousand and eighteen and in the sixty-seventh year of Our Reign.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN