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500 Pounds - Elizabeth II World War I, Silver Proof
| Issuer | Royal Mint |
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| Year | 2014 |
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| Currency | Pound sterling (decimalized, 1971-date) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | 1914-1918 |
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Issued to mark the centenary of the First World War's outbreak, this piece belongs to a broader Royal Mint commemorative program running across the four-year anniversary period through 2018. The £500 denomination is legal tender but purely notional — no such denomination existed in circulation at any point in British monetary history, and its use here is a relatively recent Royal Mint convention for high-value bullion and proof pieces, calibrated loosely to bullion content rather than any historical precedent.
At just over a kilogram of fine silver in a 100mm format, production tolerances are demanding and strike pressures extreme. Known mintage for this issue was capped at 100 pieces.