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1 Pound - Elizabeth II 3rd portrait, Crowned Royal Shield
| Issuer | Royal Mint |
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| Year | 1988 |
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| Weight | 9.5 g |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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| Mintage | 1988 - - 7,118,825 1988 - BU - 163,617 1988 - Proof - 79,314 |
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The Royal Shield reverse — showing the quartered arms of England, Scotland, and Ireland — was introduced to the pound coin in 1988 as part of a rotating series cycling through the heraldic emblems of the constituent nations. That rotation policy was itself a political response to Scottish and Welsh pressure for equal representation on the currency, formalized in the mid-1980s.
Nickel brass was chosen for the original pound coin in 1983 partly for its resistance to counterfeiting, though by the late 1980s forgeries were already circulating in meaningful numbers — a problem that would eventually require a complete redesign decades later.