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50 Pence - Elizabeth II 5th portrait, 1/4 oz Fine Silver
| Issuer | Royal Mint |
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| Year | 2013 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse description | The fourth definitive effigy of Queen Elizabeth II faces right, depicting a mature crowned bust wearing the Girls of Great Britain and Ireland tiara, as modelled by Ian Rank-Broadley. The portrait is rendered in high relief with fine detail to the hair, diadem, and drapery at the shoulder. The peripheral legend reads the sovereign's titles in abbreviated Latin, with the denomination indicated in the lower field. |
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| Obverse lettering | ELIZABETH`II`D`G REG`FID`DEF IRB `50`PENCE` (Translation: Elizabeth the Second by the Grace of God Queen Defender of the Faith) |
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The 2013 date places this piece within the Royal Mint's early push into fractional bullion coinage — a deliberate response to rising silver spot prices that had made traditional one-ounce formats increasingly inaccessible to retail buyers. The quarter-ounce denomination gave the Mint a lower entry price point without abandoning the .999 fineness that collectors had come to expect from the Britannia bullion series.
Ian Rank-Broadley's fifth portrait of Elizabeth II, introduced in 1998, was still relatively recent when this coin was struck — the sixth portrait by Jody Clark wouldn't appear until 2015.