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5 Pounds - Charles III Queen Elizabeth II: The Mary Gillick Portrait, Silver Piedfort
| Uitgever | Royal Mint |
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| Jaar | 2026 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Beschrijving keerzijde | Laureate draped bust of Queen Elizabeth II facing right, based on the celebrated 1953 coinage portrait originally sculpted by Mary Gillick, here rendered in an enlarged and deeply struck high-relief interpretation set against a finely engine-turned radiating sunburst field. The Queen is depicted as a young woman wearing a laurel wreath secured by a ribbon, with flowing hair arranged behind the neck. The legend PORTRAIT OF A QUEEN is inscribed along the upper right periphery, with the dates 1953 - 1967 denoting the period of use of the Gillick effigy on British coinage, and the engraver's initials MG appear at the lower left of the field. |
| Schrift keerzijde | Latin |
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| Aanvullende informatie |
Mary Gillick's portrait of Elizabeth II, used on British coinage from 1953, was famously submitted without the customary crown — Gillick argued that a bare head better suited the young queen's image. The design caused production headaches at the Royal Mint almost immediately: the fine detail in the hair meant that working dies wore unevenly, and the portrait was quietly retouched in 1955 without public announcement.
A piedfort at this weight is double-struck on a thickened flan, a format the Royal Mint has reserved for commemorative issues since the 1980s.