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25 Pounds - Elizabeth II White Greyhound of Richmond, 1/4 oz Fine Gold
| Issuer | Royal Mint |
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| Year | 2021 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse description | Effigy of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II facing right, rendered in high relief after the fifth definitive portrait by engraver Jody Clark. The Queen is depicted wearing the George IV State Diadem and light drapery at the shoulder. The sovereign's name and royal titles appear in a continuous Latin legend encircling the portrait within the field, with the engraver's initials J.C. positioned at the lower right. The design is characteristic of Clark's refined, naturalistic style introduced for British coinage in 2015. |
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| Obverse lettering | ELIZABETH II·D·G·REG·F·D·25 POUNDS· J.C (Translation: Elizabeth the Second by the Grace of God Queen Defender of the Faith) |
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The White Greyhound of Richmond is one of the ten heraldic beasts drawn from the 1953 Coronation ceremony, where sculpted versions flanked the route at Westminster Abbey. The beast itself derives from the heraldry of Henry VII, who used it as a personal badge — a lineage that runs through the Tudors and connects directly to the Plantagenet Beaufort line through his mother, Margaret Beaufort.
This is the tenth and final entry in the Queen's Beasts bullion series, completing a run that began in 2017 with the Lion of England.