Proclamations
BY THE QUEEN
A PROCLAMATION
ALTERING THE PROCLAMATION OF THE FOURTH DAY OF OCTOBER 1953 TO DETERMINE NEW DESIGNS FOR CERTAIN GOLD COINS
ELIZABETH R.
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 fourth day of October 1953 We determined a new design for the gold coins specified in Our said Proclamation, being the five-pound piece, the two-pound piece, the sovereign and the half-sovereign:
And Whereas by Our Proclamation dated the seventeenth day of April 1985 We altered the paragraph headed ‘GOLD COINS’ of Our said Proclamation of the fourth day of October 1953 to determine a new design for the said gold coins:
And Whereas by Our Proclamation dated the twenty-first day of December 1988 We further altered the paragraph headed ‘GOLD COINS’ of Our said Proclamation of the fourth day of October 1953 to determine a new design for the said gold coins:
And Whereas by Our Proclamation dated the eleventh day of December 2001 We further altered the paragraph headed ‘GOLD COINS’ of Our said Proclamation of the fourth day of October 1953 to determine a new design for the said gold coins:
And Whereas by Our Proclamation dated the seventeenth day of November 2004 We further altered the paragraph headed ‘GOLD COINS’ of Our said Proclamation of the fourth day of October 1953 to determine a new design for the said gold coins:
And Whereas it appears to Us desirable to determine a new design 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. The following paragraph shall be substituted for the paragraph headed ‘GOLD COINS’ of Our said Proclamation of the fourth day of October 1953.
GOLD COINS
Every five-pound piece, two-pound piece, sovereign and half-sovereign shall have for the obverse impression Our effigy with the inscription “ELIZABETH ∙ II ∙ DEI ∙ GRA REGINA ∙ FID ∙ DEF” and for the reverse either:
(a) the image of St George armed, sitting on horseback, attacking the dragon with a sword, and a broken spear upon the ground, and the date of the year; or
(b) the image of St George on horseback, attacking the dragon with a lance, with the date of the year to the left.
The coins shall have a graining upon the edge.
2. This Proclamation shall come into force on the thirteenth day of October Two thousand and eleven.
Given at Our Court at Buckingham Palace, this twelfth day of October in the year of our Lord Two thousand and eleven and in the sixtieth year of Our Reign.