Number 5934 503

The Gazette

Registered as a Newspaper

FRIDAY 29 MAY 1998 State Intelligence

BY THE QUEEN "(4) The design for the said gold shall be as follows: For the obverse impression Our effigy with the inscription A PROCLAMATION "ELIZABETH.II.D.G REG.FID.DEF' and "50 POUNDS" and for the reverse the figure of standing upon a Altering the Proclamation of the 21st July 1987 and the rock in the sea, her right hand grasping a trident and her left Proclamation of the 22nd July 1997 determining a new inscription hand resting on a shield and holding an olive branch, with the for One Hundred-Pound, Fifty-Pound, Twenty-Five-Pound and inscription "V4 OUNCE FINE GOLD BRITANNIA" and the Ten-Pound Gold , and Two-Pound, One Pound, Fifty date of the year. The coin shall have a graining upon the Pence and Twenty Pence Silver Coins. edge.". ELIZABETH R. THE TWENTY-FIVE-POUND COIN Whereas under section 3(1 )(b) and (h) of the Coinage Act 1971 We have power, with the advice of Our Privy Council, by 3. The following paragraph shall be substituted for paragraph Proclamation to determine the design of any coin to be made at 3(4) of Our said Proclamation of the twenty-first day of July Our Mint, and to alter any Proclamation previously made under 1987:- the said section: "(4) The design for the said gold coin shall be as follows: And Whereas by Our Proclamations dated the twenty-first day For the obverse impression Our effigy with the inscription of July 1987 and the twenty-second day of July 1997 We "ELIZABETH.II.D.G REG.FID.DEF" and "25 POUNDS" determined the specifications and designs for new coins of gold and for the reverse the figure of Britannia standing upon a of the denominations of one hundred pounds, fifty pounds, rock in the sea, her right hand grasping a trident and her left twenty-five pounds and ten pounds and new coins of silver of the hand resting on a shield and holding an olive branch, with the denominations of two pounds, one pound, fifty pence and twenty inscription "% OUNCE FINE GOLD BRITANNIA" and the pence: date of the year. The coin shall have a graining upon the We, therefore, in pursuance of the said section 3(l)(b) and (h) edge.". and of all other powers enabling Us in that behalf, do hereby, by and with the advice of Our Privy Council, proclaim, direct and THE TEN-POUND COIN ordain as foliows:- 4. The following paragraph shall be substituted for paragraph THE HUNDRED-POUND COIN 4(4) of Our said Proclamation of the twenty-first day of July 1987:- 1. The following paragraph shall be substituted for paragraph 1(4) of Our said Proclamation of the twenty-first day of July "(4) The design for the said gold coin shall be as follows: 1987:- For the obverse impression Our effigy with the inscription "(4) The design for the said gold coin shall be as follows: "ELIZABETH.II.D.G REG.FID.DEF" and "10 POUNDS" and for the reverse the figure of Britannia standing upon a For the obverse impression Our effigy with the inscription rock in the sea, her right hand grasping a trident and her left "ELIZABETH.II.D.G REG.FID.DEF" and "100 POUNDS" hand resting on a shield and holding an olive branch, with the and for the reverse the figure of Britannia standing upon a inscription '"/io OUNCE FINE GOLD BRITANNIA" and rock in the sea, her right hand grasping a trident and her left the date of the year. The coin shall have a graining upon the hand resting on a shield and holding an olive branch, with the edge.". inscription "ONE OUNCE FINE GOLD BRITANNIA" and the date of the year. The coin shall have a graining upon the THE TWO-POUND COINS edge.". 5. The following paragraph shall be substituted for paragraph 8 THE FIFTY-POUND COIN of Our said Proclamation of the twenty-second day of July 2. The following paragraph shall be substituted for paragraph 1997:- 2(4) of Our said Proclamation of the twenty-first day of July "8. The design for the said silver two-pound coins shall be as 1987:- follows: