A PROCLAMATION

DETERMINING THE SPECIFICATIONS AND DESIGNS FOR A NEW SERIES OF ONE POUND COINS

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 the making of such coins and their least current weight, 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 of such 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 under section 6(2) of the Coinage Act 1971 We have power, with the advice of Our Privy Council, by Proclamation to prescribe the composition of the standard trial plates to be used for determining the justness of coins of any metal other than gold, silver or cupro-nickel:

And Whereas it appears to Us desirable to order that there should be made at Our Mint a new series of coins of the denomination of one pound in gold, in silver and in nickel-brass:

We, therefore, in pursuance of the said section 3(1)(a), (b), (c), (cc), (d), (dd), (f) and (ff), the said section 6(2), 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 coin of gold of the denomination of one pound shall be made, being a coin of a standard weight of 19.619 grammes, a standard diameter of 22.5 millimetres, a millesimal fineness of 916.66, and being circular in shape.
	(2) In the making of the said gold coin a remedy (that is, a variation from the standard weight or fineness 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 0.05 grammes; and
	(b) a variation from the said millesimal fineness of two per mille.
	(3) The least current weight of the said gold coin shall be 19.45 grammes.
SILVER COIN
2.	(1) A new coin of silver of the denomination of one pound shall be made, being a coin of a standard weight of 9.5 grammes, a standard diameter of 22.5 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 dimensions 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 0.05 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 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 one pound shall be made being a coin of a standard weight of 19 grammes, a standard diameter of 22.5 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 dimensions 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 0.1 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 said silver coin shall be legal tender for the payment of any amount in any part of Our United Kingdom.
NICKEL-BRASS COIN
4.	(1) A new coin of nickel-brass of the denomination of one pound shall be made, being a coin of a standard weight of 9.5 grammes, a standard diameter of 22.5 millimetres, a standard composition of seventy per centum copper, five and one half per centum nickel and twenty-four and one half per centum zinc, and being circular in shape.
	(2) In the making of the said nickel-brass coin a remedy (that is, a variation from the standard weight, composition or dimensions 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 0.05 grammes;
	(b) a variation from the said standard composition of two per centum copper, three-quarters of one per centum nickel and two per centum zinc; and
	(c) a variation from the said standard diameter of 0.125 millimetres per coin.
	(3) The said nickel-brass coin may contain impurities of three-quarters of one per centum.
	(4) The said nickel-brass coin shall be current and shall be legal tender for payment of any amount in any part of Our United Kingdom.
	(5) The composition of the standard trial plates to be used for determining the justness of the said coin shall be pure copper, pure nickel and pure zinc.
DESIGN OF THE COINS
5.	The design of the said one pound coins shall be as follows:

 ‘For the obverse impression Our effigy with the inscription “ELIZABETH • II • D • G • REG • F • D •” and the date of the year, and for the reverse either:

	(a)	a design which depicts the official badges of the capital cities of the United Kingdom, with the badge of Edinburgh being the principal focus, accompanied by the name “EDINBURGH” and the denomination “ONE POUND”. In this case the coin shall have a graining upon the edge and in incuse letters the inscription “NISI DOMINUS FRUSTRA”;
	(b) a design which depicts the official badges of the capital cities of the United Kingdom, with the badge of Cardiff being the principal focus, accompanied by the name “CARDIFF” and the denomination “ONE POUND”. In this case the coin shall have a graining upon the edge and in incuse letters the inscription “Y DDRAIG GOCH DDYRY CYCHWYN”;
	(c) a design which depicts the official badges of the capital cities of the United Kingdom, with the badge of Belfast being the principal focus, accompanied by the name “BELFAST” and the denomination “ONE POUND”. In this case the coin shall have a graining upon the edge and in incuse letters the inscription “PRO TANTO QUID RETRIBUAMUS”; or
	(d) a design which depicts the official badges of the capital cities of the United Kingdom, with the badge of London being the principal focus, accompanied by the name “LONDON” and the denomination “ONE POUND”. In this case the coin shall have a graining upon the edge and in incuse letters the inscription “DOMINE DIRIGE NOS”.’
6.	This Proclamation shall come into force on the sixteenth day of October Two thousand and nine.

Given at Our Court at Buckingham Palace, this fifteenth day of October in the year of our Lord Two thousand and nine and in the fifty-eighth year of Our Reign.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN