A Proclamation

DETERMINING THE SPECIFICATIONS AND DESIGN FOR FIVE-POUND COINS TO COMMEMORATE THE TWO-HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE BATTLE OF TRAFALGAR & THE DEATH OF LORD NELSON

ELIZABETH R.

Whereas under section 3(1)(a), (b), (c), (cc), (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 fineness of certain gold coins, the remedy to be allowed in making such coins and their least current weight and 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 making of such coins and to determine the percentage of impurities which such coins may contain:

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 payment of any amount:

And Whereas it appears to Us desirable to order that, to commemorate the two-hundredth anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar and the Death of Lord Nelson in 1805, there should be made at Our Mint coins of the denomination of five pounds in gold, in silver and in cupro-nickel:

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

GOLD COIN

1.	(1)	A new gold coin of the denomination of five pounds shall be made, being a coin of a standard diameter of 38.608 millimetres, and being circular in shape.
	(2)	In the making of the said gold coin a variation from the said standard diameter of not more than 0.1 millimetres per coin shall be allowed.
STANDARD SILVER COIN
2.	(1)	A new coin of silver of the denomination of five pounds shall be made, being a coin of a standard weight of 28.2759 grammes, a standard diameter of 38.608 millimetres, and a standard composition of thirty-seven-fortieths fine silver and three-fortieths alloy (that is, 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 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 (measured as the average of a sample of not more than one kilogramme of the coin) of 0.1296 grammes; and
	(b)	a variation from the said standard composition of five parts per thousand fine silver.
	(3)	In the making of the said silver coin a variation from the said standard diameter of not more than 0.125 millimetres per coin shall be allowed.
	(4)	The said silver coin shall be legal tender for the payment of any amount in any part of our United Kingdom.
SILVER PIEDFORT COIN
3.	(1)	A new coin of silver of the denomination of five pounds shall be made, being a coin of a standard weight 56.5518 grammes, a standard diameter of 38.608 millimetres, and a standard composition of thirty-seven-fortieths of fine silver and three-fortieths alloy (that is, 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 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 wight of an amount per coin (measured as the average of a sample of not more than one kilogramme of the coin) of 0.2150 grammes; and

	(b)	a variation from the said standard composition of five parts per thousand fine silver.
	(3)	In the making of the said silver coin a variation from the said standard diameter of not more than 0.125 millimetres per coin shall be allowed.
	(4)	The said silver coin shall be legal tender for the payment of any amount in any part of our United Kingdom.
CUPRO-NICKEL COIN
4.	(1)	A new coin of cupro-nickel of the denomination of five pounds shall be made, being a coin of a standard weight 28.2759 grammes, a standard diameter of 38.608 millimetres, and a standard composition of seventy-five per centum copper and twenty-five per centum nickel, and being circular in shape.
	(2)	In the making of the said cupro-nickel coin a remedy (that is, a variation from the standard weight 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 (measured as the average of a sample of not more than one kilogramme of the coin) of 0.1296 grammes; and
	(b)	a variation from the said standard composition of two per centum copper and two per centum nickel.
	(3)	In the making of the said cupro-nickel coin a variation from the said standard diameter of not more than 0.125 millimetres per coin shall be allowed.
	(4)	The said cupro-nickel coin may contain impurities of 0.75 of one per centum.
	(5)	The said cupro-nickel coin shall be legal tender for the payment of any amount in any part of our United Kingdom.
DESIGN OF THE COINS
5.	The designs of the said coins shall be as follows:

‘For the obverse impression a representation of Our effigy with the inscription ‘ELIZABETH . II D . G .REG.F.D’ and the denomination ‘FIVE POUNDS’ and for the reverse either:

	(a)	a depiction of the two British ships, HMS Victory and Temeraire, in the midst of the battle, the central design surrounded by the inscription .TRAFALGAR. and the dates 1805 and 2005, or
	(b)	a portrait of Lord Nelson in the uniform of a Vice Admiral accompanied by the inscription HORATIO NELSON and the dates 1805 and 2005. The silver and gold coins will have a plain edge and in incuse letters the inscription ENGLAND EXPECTS THAT EVERY MAN WILL DO HIS DUTY, and the cupro-nickel version will have a milling on the edge’.
6.	This Proclamation shall come into force on the eighteenth day of November Two thousand and four.

Given at Our Court at Buckingham Palace, this seventeenth day of November in the year of our Lord Two thousand and four and in the fifty-third year of our Reign.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN