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5 Pounds - Elizabeth II Poetry and Language, Silver Proof
| Issuer | The Royal Mint |
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| Year | 2016 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The reverse, designed by David Lawrence, depicts a scene of four British infantrymen advancing across a battlefield, rendered in detailed relief against a backdrop of billowing smoke and barbed wire suggesting the Western Front. In the upper field, a lines from Rupert Brooke's 1914 sonnet 'The Soldier' are inscribed in serif lettering: 'There shall be / In that rich earth / a richer dust / concealed.' Along the lower periphery, the legend reads 1914 THE FIRST WORLD WAR 1918, flanked by the dates of the conflict, commemorating the centenary of the First World War. |
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| Reverse lettering | There shall be In that rich earth a richer dust concealed DL 1914 THE FIRST WORLD WAR 1918 |
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