Publication Date: Friday, 23 July 2010
Notice Code: 1101
A PROCLAMATION
DETERMINING THE SPECIFICATIONS AND DESIGNS FOR NEW TEN PENCE AND FIVE PENCE COINS
ELIZABETH R.
Whereas under section 3(1)(a), (b), (cc), (d) and (dd) of the Coinage Act 1971 We have power, with the advice of Our Privy
Council, by Proclamation to determine the denomination, the design and dimensions of coins to be made at Our Mint, to determine
the weight and composition of coins other than gold coins or coins of silver of Our Maundy money and the remedy to be allowed
in making such coins and to determine the percentage of impurities which such coins may contain:
And Whereas under section 3(1)(f) and (ff) of the Coinage Act 1971 We have power, with the advice of Our Privy Council, by
Proclamation to direct that coins made at Our Mint other than gold, silver, cupro-nickel and bronze coins shall be current
and that any coin shall be legal tender for the payment of any amount not exceeding such amount as may be specified:
And Whereas it appears to Us desirable to order that there should be made at Our Mint new coins of the denomination of ten
pence and five pence in mild steel coated with nickel:
We, therefore, in pursuance of the said section 3(1)(a), (b), (cc), (d), (dd), (f) and (ff), and of all other powers enabling
Us in that behalf, do hereby, by and with the advice of Our Privy Council, proclaim, direct and ordain as follows:
TEN PENCE COIN
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(1) A new coin of mild steel coated with nickel of the denomination of ten pence shall be made, being a coin of a standard
weight of 6.5 grammes, a standard diameter of 24.5 millimetres, a standard composition of ninety-four per centum mild steel
and six per centum nickel, and being circular in shape.
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(2) In the making of the said mild steel coin a remedy (that is, a variation from the standard weight, composition or dimensions
specified above) shall be allowed of an amount not exceeding the following, that is to say:
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(a) a variation from the said standard weight of an amount per coin (measured as the average of a sample of not less than
100 coins but not more than one kilogramme of the coin) of 0.2 grammes;
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(b) a variation from the said standard composition of an amount per coin (measured as the average of a sample of not less
than 100 coins but not more than one kilogramme of the coin) of four per centum of the coin as mild steel and four per centum
of the coin as nickel; and
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(c) a variation from the said standard diameter of 0.125 millimetres per coin.
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(3) Impurities may be present in the nickel coating to the said mild steel coin in an amount not exceeding one per centum
of the said nickel coating (and, in respect of any coin, any such impurities shall be treated as nickel for the purposes of
sub-paragraph (2)(b) above).
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(4) The said mild steel coin shall be current and shall be legal tender for the payment of any amount not exceeding five pounds
in any part of Our United Kingdom.
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The design of the said ten pence coin shall be as follows:
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‘For the obverse impression Our effigy with the inscription “ELIZABETH • II • D • G REG • F • D •” and the date of the year,
and for the reverse a section of Our Royal Arms showing elements of the first quartering accompanied by the words “TEN PENCE”.
The coin shall have a graining upon the edge’.
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FIVE PENCE COIN
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(1) A new coin of mild steel coated with nickel of the denomination of five pence shall be made, being a coin of a standard
weight of 3.25 grammes, a standard diameter of 18 millimetres, a standard composition of ninety-four per centum mild steel
and six per centum nickel, and being circular in shape.
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(2) In the making of the said mild steel coin a remedy (that is, a variation from the standard weight, composition or dimensions
specified above) shall be allowed of an amount not exceeding the following, that is to say:
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(a) a variation from the said standard weight of an amount per coin (measured as the average of a sample of not less than
100 coins but not more than one kilogramme of the coin) of 0.1 grammes;
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(b) a variation from the said standard composition of an amount per coin (measured as the average of a sample of not less
than 100 coins but not more than one kilogramme of the coin) of four per centum of the coin as mild steel and four per centum
of the coin as nickel; and
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(c) a variation from the said standard diameter of 0.125 millimetres per coin.
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(3) Impurities may be present in the nickel coating to the said mild steel coin in an amount not exceeding one per centum
of the said nickel coating (and, in respect of any coin, any such impurities shall be treated as nickel for the purposes of
sub-paragraph (2)(b) above).
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(4) The said mild steel coin shall be current and shall be legal tender for the payment of any amount not exceeding five pounds
in any part of Our United Kingdom.
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The design of the said five pence coin shall be as follows:
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‘For the obverse impression Our effigy with the inscription “ELIZABETH • II • D • G REG • F • D •” and the date of the year,
and for the reverse a section of Our Royal Arms showing elements of all four quarterings accompanied by the words “FIVE PENCE”.
The coin shall have a graining upon the edge’.
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This Proclamation shall come into force on the twenty-second day of July Two thousand and ten.
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Given at Our Court at Buckingham Palace, this twenty-first day of July in the year of our Lord Two thousand and tenand in the fifty-ninth year of Our Reign.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN
(1101/5)
