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5 Pounds - Charles III Year of the Horse
| Issuer | Royal Mint |
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| Year | 2026 |
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| Weight | 28.28 g |
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| Obverse description | Uncrowned, bare-headed effigy of King Charles III facing left, modelled in high relief with finely detailed hair and facial features, as designed by sculptor Martin Jennings. The truncation of the bust is clean and squared. The circular legend reads CHARLES III · D · G · REX · F · D · 5 POUNDS · 2026 ·, disposed around the periphery with the date at lower right and the denomination at upper right. The engraver's initials MJ appear discreetly at the lower right of the bust truncation. |
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| Mintage | 2026 - BU |
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The Year of the Horse falls in 2026 under the Chinese lunisolar calendar, making this one of the later entries in the Royal Mint's long-running Lunar New Year series, which began attracting serious collector interest after the 2012 Dragon issue sold out rapidly. The copper-nickel circulation-quality strikes in this series consistently outpace production estimates in secondary market demand, largely driven by British-Chinese community purchasing and parallel collector interest in Commonwealth lunar coinage.