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100 Pounds - Charles III Beowulf & Grendel's Mother, 1 oz Fine Gold
| Issuer | Royal Mint |
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| Year | 2025 |
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| Diameter | 32.69 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | CHARLES III·D·G·REX·F·D·100 POUNDS MJ (Translation: Charles III by the Grace of God King Defender of the Faith) |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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The Royal Mint's Beowulf release is part of a broader push to exploit Anglo-Saxon literary material for bullion and collector issues — a strategy that has accelerated sharply since the 2010s. Grendel's Mother, the episode's more complex antagonist, appears here rather than the more commercially obvious Grendel himself, which is an unusual editorial choice for a mass-market gold issue.
The poem survives in a single manuscript, the Nowell Codex, dated to around 1000 AD and held at the British Library. That sole surviving copy was nearly destroyed in the Ashburnham House fire of 1731.