Whereas under section 3(1)(b) and (h) of the Coinage Act 1971 We have power, with the advice of Our Privy Council, by Proclamation to determine the design 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 thirteenth day of December 2017 We determined, among other matters, a new inscription on coins of the denomination of twenty-five pounds in gold:

And Whereas it appears to Us desirable to determine a new inscription for the said gold coins:

We, therefore, in pursuance of the said section 3(1)(b) 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 1(5) of Our said Proclamation of the thirteenth day of December Two thousand and seventeen, for ‘· 1/4 OZ FINE GOLD · 999.9 ·’ there shall be substituted ‘· THE GOLD STANDARD · 1/4 OZ FINE GOLD · 999.9 · ’.

2. This Proclamation shall come into force on the fourteenth day of March Two thousand and nineteen.

Given at Our Court at Buckingham Palace, this thirteenth day of March in the year of Our Lord Two thousand and nineteen and in the sixty-eighth year of Our Reign.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN