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5 Pounds - Elizabeth II 4th portrait, Queen Anne
| Issuer | Royal Mint |
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| Year | 2014 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse description | The fourth definitive effigy of Queen Elizabeth II faces right, depicted in a crowned and robed bust wearing the Girls of Great Britain and Ireland tiara, as modelled by Ian Rank-Broadley. The truncation bears the engraver's initials IRB. The sovereign's titles appear as a continuous legend encircling the effigy, with the denomination FIVE POUNDS and the date 2014 completing the inscription. |
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| Obverse lettering | ELIZABETH·II·D·G·REG·F·D FIVE POUNDS·2014 IRB (Translation: Elizabeth the Second by the Grace of God Queen Defender of the Faith) |
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Issued to mark the 300th anniversary of Queen Anne's death in 1714, this crown-sized piece falls within the Royal Mint's ongoing series commemorating British monarchs absent from circulating coinage. Anne's reign saw the 1707 Acts of Union uniting England and Scotland into Great Britain — arguably the most consequential constitutional event of her 12-year rule, and the reason her titles on contemporary coinage shifted mid-reign. She died without a surviving heir despite 17 pregnancies, triggering the Hanoverian succession under the Act of Settlement.