Whereas under section 3(1)(a), (b), (c) (cd) and (d) 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 fineness of certain gold and silver coins, the remedy to be allowed in the making of such coins and for gold coins their least current weight, and to provide for the manner of measurement of the variation from the standard weight of coins:

And Whereas under section 3(1)(ff) of the Coinage Act 1971 We have power, with the advice of Our Privy Council, by Proclamation to direct 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 series of coins of the denomination of ten pounds in silver piedfort:

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

TEN POUND SILVER PIEDFORT COIN

1. (1) A new coin of silver piedfort of the denomination of ten pounds shall be made, being a coin of a standard weight of 312.59 grammes, a standard diameter of 65 millimetres, a standard composition of not less than 999 parts per thousand fine silver, and being circular in shape.

(2) In the making of the said silver piedfort coin a remedy (that is, a variation from the standard weight or diameter 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 1.8 grammes; and

(b) 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 design of the said silver piedfort coin shall be as follows:

‘For the obverse impression Our effigy with the inscription “· CHARLES III · D · G · REX · F · D · 10 POUNDS ·” and the date of the year, and for the reverse a depiction of each of the Spice Girls in silhouette form, with each of their signatures and the inscription “SPICE GIRLS”. The coin shall have a grained edge.’

(5) The said silver piedfort coin shall be legal tender for the payment of any amount in any part of Our United Kingdom.

2. This Proclamation shall come into force on the eleventh day of March Two thousand and twenty-six.

Given at Our Court at Buckingham Palace, on this tenth day of March in the year of Our Lord Two thousand and twenty-six and in the fourth year of Our Reign.

GOD SAVE THE KING