LONDON, Jun 11, 2012 /PRNewswire around COMTEX/ –
The Royal Mint has suggested dual Proof peculiarity UK five-ounce coins to applaud the useful arise of The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee,

Following on from the success of the Alderney emanate five-ounce coins created for the Royal Wedding final year, The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee five-ounce will be released on a UK china and looks set to sell out as it appeals to collectors who wish a singular square of Diamond Jubilee memorabilia to value forever.

The bullion five-ounce coin, labelled at £9,500, contains 5 ounces of excellent bullion and only 250 will be struck. In further to the bullion five-ounce coin, a china five-ounce china has also been created, labelled at £450, and only 1,952 will be minted in honour of the year The Queen took to the throne.

Created by Ian Rank-Broadley FRBS, the retreat pattern of the five-ounce china depicts a stately picture of Her Majesty The Queen enthroned. Inspired mostly by the Great Seals of both Queen Victoria and Queen Elizabeth II, the enthroned representation of The Queen is a really important image, conveying a deeply suggestive clarity of stability.

The Queen wears the Royal Diadem and is draped in lush robes, the impracticable folds and exuberant sculptural fact suggests huge beauty and dignity. The Diamond Jubilee anniversary dates of 1952 – 2012 are shown in Roman numerals and are accompanied by the Latin marker DILECTA REGNO – ‘I power beloved’.

The obverse of the five-ounce coins underline the Diamond Jubilee mural of Her Majesty the Queen also by Ian Rank-Broadley FRBS, created generally for and disdainful to all 2012 Diamond Jubilee UK coins struck by The Royal Mint.

Commenting on his design, Ian Rank-Broadley said: “I did demeanour at the Great Seals of several monarchs and wanted to give a new dimension to that image, to furnish something that will have a special stress for the republic and presumably worldwide.”

The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee UK Five-Ounce Gold Coin is housed in a high-gloss wood-veneer display case. The Diamond Jubilee UK Five-Ounce Silver Coin is presented in a mistake leather box and both come with an illustrated pamphlet and a numbered Certificate of Authenticity. Both are accessible now from The Royal Mint’s website
http://www.royalmint.com .

Note to editors:

On 1 Jan 2010 the resources of The Royal Mint Trading Fund were vested into a private company, called The Royal Mint Limited. HM Treasury stays 100% owners of the shares of the company. All resources of an chronological inlet have been vested into a apart company, The Royal Mint Museum, to preserve, strengthen and raise them for destiny generations to come. With the difference of the resources distant into the Museum, all other resources and liabilities, including those of a fortuitous nature, were eliminated into the new association effective 1 Jan 2010.

About The Royal Mint

The Royal Mint has a story dating behind over 1,000 years. By the late thirteenth century the organization was formed in the Tower of London, and remained there for over 500 years. By 1812 The Royal Mint had moved out of the Tower to premises on London’s Tower Hill. In 1967 the building of a new Royal Mint began on its stream site in Llantrisant, South Wales.

There were estimated to be 28.6 billion UK coins in dissemination at 31 Mar 2011, with a sum face value of £3.8 billion – all made by The Royal Mint.

1.1 billion UK coins were released during 2010-11.

The Royal Mint’s Llantrisant site was recently selected to horde the Prime Minister David Cameron’s initial supervision cupboard assembly in Wales.

For media enquiries, greatfully contact

Porter Novelli
The Royal Mint Press Office
31 St Petersburgh Place
London
W2 4LA
+44(0)207-853-2390

http://www.royalmint.com

SOURCE The Royal Mint

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