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100 Pounds - Elizabeth II Year of the Horse, Gold Proof
| Issuer | The Royal Mint |
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| Year | 2014 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse description | Right-facing effigy of Queen Elizabeth II wearing the George IV State Diadem, as designed by Ian Rank-Broadley; the engraver's initials 'IRB' appear below the truncation of the bust. The peripheral legend reads 'ELIZABETH II D G REG FID DEF' around the upper arc, with the denomination '100 POUNDS' inscribed along the lower arc. The highly polished proof fields provide a striking contrast to the finely detailed, frosted relief of the portrait. The overall composition follows the standard fourth-portrait convention used on British coinage from 1998 onward. |
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| Reverse lettering | YEAR OF THE HORSE · 2014 |
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The Lunar series struck by the Royal Mint for the British market launched in 2014 with this Horse issue, positioning the Mint in direct competition with the long-established Perth Mint lunar program. Britain's entry into the genre was notably late — Perth had been running its own lunar calendar series since 1996 — but the Royal Mint differentiated its product through the .9999 fineness standard rather than the more common .999 used elsewhere.
2014 was the Year of the Horse under the Chinese sexagenary cycle, the seventh animal in the twelve-year sequence.