List of One Pound Coins (£1)

One Pound Coins

The main currency of the UK, the GBP £1 coin replaced the previous £1 banknote in April 1983. The round coin was replaced by a 12-sided one-pound coin in March 2017.
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 Obverse Reverse1983 One Pound Coin - Royal Arms
Mintage: 443,053,510
 Obverse Reverse1984 One Pound Coin - Thistle
Mintage: 146,256,501
 Reverse1985 One Pound Coin - Leek
Mintage: 228,430,749
 Reverse1986 One Pound Coin - Flax Plant
Mintage: 10,409,501
 Reverse1987 One Pound Coin - Oak Tree
Mintage: 39,298,502
 Obverse Reverse1988 One Pound Coin - Shield of the Royal Arms
Mintage: 7,118,825
 Reverse1989 One Pound Coin - Thistle
Mintage: 70,580,501
 Reverse1990 One Pound Coin - Leek
Mintage: 97,269,302
 Obverse Reverse1991 One Pound Coin - Flax Plant
Mintage: 38,443,575
 Obverse Reverse1992 One Pound Coin - Oak Tree
Mintage: 36,320,487
 Reverse1993 One Pound Coin - Royal Arms
Mintage: 114,744,500
 Obverse Reverse1994 One Pound Coin - Lion Rampant
Mintage: 29,752,525
 Reverse1995 One Pound Coin - Dragon
Mintage: 34,503,501
 Reverse1996 One Pound Coin - Celtic Cross and Torc
Mintage: 89,886,000
 Obverse Reverse1997 One Pound Coin - Three Lions
Mintage: 57,117,450
 Reverse1998 One Pound Coin - Royal Arms
Mintage: N/A
 Reverse1999 One Pound Coin - Lion Rampant
Mintage: N/A
 Obverse Reverse2000 One Pound Coin - Dragon
Mintage: 109,496,500
 Obverse Reverse2001 One Pound Coin - Celtic Cross and Torc
Mintage: 63,968,065
 Obverse Reverse2002 One Pound Coin - Three Lions
Mintage: 77,818,000
 Reverse2003 One Pound Coin - Royal Arms
Mintage: 61,596,500
 Reverse2004 One Pound Coin - Forth Railway Bridge
Mintage: 39,162,000
 Reverse2005 One Pound Coin - Menai Straits Bridge
Mintage: 99,429,500
 Reverse2006 One Pound Coin - Egyptian Arch Railway Bridge
Mintage: 38,938,000
 Reverse2007 One Pound Coin - Millennium Bridge
Mintage: 26,180,160
 Reverse2008 One Pound Coin - Royal Arms
Mintage: 3,910,000
 Reverse2008 One Pound Coin - Shield of the Royal Arms (2008-2016)
Mintage: 43,827,300
 Reverse2009 One Pound Coin - Shield of the Royal Arms
Mintage: 27,625,600
 Reverse2010 One Pound Coin - Belfast
Mintage: 6,205,000
 Reverse2010 One Pound Coin - London
Mintage: 2,635,000
 Reverse2010 One Pound Coin - Shield of the Royal Arms
Mintage: 57,120,000
 Reverse2011 One Pound Coin - Cardiff
Mintage: 1,615,000
 Reverse2011 One Pound Coin - Edinburgh
Mintage: 935,000
 Reverse2011 One Pound Coin - Shield of the Royal Arms
Mintage: 25,415,000
 Reverse2012 One Pound Coin - Shield of the Royal Arms
Mintage: 35,700,030
 Reverse2013 One Pound Coin - Leek and Daffodil
Mintage: 5,270,000
 Reverse2013 One Pound Coin - Rose and Oak
Mintage: 5,270,000
 Reverse2013 One Pound Coin - Shield of the Royal Arms
Mintage: 13,090,500
 Reverse2014 One Pound Coin - Flax and Shamrock
Mintage: 5,780,000
 Reverse2014 One Pound Coin - Shield of the Royal Arms
Mintage: 79,305,200
 Reverse2014 One Pound Coin - Thistle and Bluebell
Mintage: 5,185,000
 Reverse2015 One Pound Coin - Royal Arms
Mintage: 131,250,000
 Reverse2015 One Pound Coin - Shield of the Royal Arms
Mintage: 29,580,000
 Reverse2016 One Pound Coin - Last Round Pound
Mintage: N/A
 Reverse2016 One Pound Coin - Nations of the Crown
Mintage: 648,936,536
 Reverse2016 One Pound Coin - Shield of the Royal Arms
Mintage: 30,000
 Obverse Reverse2017 Gold One Pound Coin
Mintage: 2,151
 Reverse2017 One Pound Coin - Nations of the Crown
Mintage: 749,616,200
 Obverse Reverse2017 Platinum One Pound Coin
Mintage: 250
 Reverse2018 One Pound Coin - Nations of the Crown
Mintage: 130,560,000
 Obverse Reverse2023 One Pound Coin - Charles III
Mintage: N/A
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History of the British One Pound Coin

The main currency of the UK, the GBP £1 coin replaced the previous £1 banknote in April 1983.

The British one pound (£1) coin is a denomination of the pound sterling. The Obverse bears the Latin engraving “Dei Gratia Regina” meaning, “By the grace of God, Queen” and FD meaning “Defender of the Faith.”

It has featured the profile of Queen Elizabeth II since the coin’s introduction on 21 April 1983. Four different portraits of the Queen have been used before Charles III came to the throne:

  • 1983-1984, Elizabeth II by Arnold Machin
  • 1985-1997, Elizabeth II by Raphael Maklouf
  • 1998-2015, Elizabeth II by Ian Rank-Broadley
  • 2015-2023, Elizabeth II by Jody Clark
  • 2023 to date, Charles III by Martin Jennings

In addition to the standard reverse one or two new designs may be minted each year.

The coin replaced the Bank of England £1 note, which ceased to be issued at the end of 1984 and was removed from circulation on 11 March 1988, though still redeemable at the Bank’s offices, like all English banknotes. One-pound notes continue to be issued in Jersey, Guernsey and the Isle of Man, and by the Royal Bank of Scotland, but the pound coin is much more widely used.

The round coin is made in Nickel-brass (70% Cu, 24.5% Zn, and 5.5% Ni). Most years there has been a variant as silver, piedfort silver, gold and sometimes platinum.

At 31 March 2016 it was estimated that there were 1,671,328,000 pound coins in circulation. The Royal Mint estimated in 2014 that 3.04% (about 47 million) were counterfeit and mainly because of this it was decided to change the design. Note that even some of the uncirculated coins have been counterfeited so this is still a problem for collectors.

Most one pound coins have an edge inscription, although sometimes this has been replaced with incuse patterns. The common inscriptions are:

Edge Inscription Translation/etymology
DECUS ET TUTAMEN ‘An ornament and a safeguard’ from Virgil’s Aeneid
NEMO ME IMPUNE LACESSIT ‘No one provokes me with impunity’. The Motto of the Order of the Thistle
PLEIDIOL WYF I’M GWLAD ‘True am I to my country’ from the Welsh National Anthem
PRO TANTO QUID RETRIBUAMUS ‘What shall we give in return for so much.’ The Motto of Belfast
DOMINE DIRIGE NOS ‘Lord direct us.’ The Motto of London
Y DDRAIG GOCH DDYRY CYCHWYN ‘The Red Dragon shall lead’ The Motto of Cardiff
NISI DOMINUS FRUSTRA ‘It is vain without the Lord’ The Motto of Edinburgh

Production

The final ’round’ coins were minted in December 2015. Their replacement, a new 12-sided design, was introduced from 28 March 2017 onwards. It is of a similar 12-sided shape to the pre-decimal brass threepence coin, is roughly the same size as the round £1 coin and is bimetallic like the current £2 coin. The new design was intended to make counterfeiting more difficult, via an undisclosed hidden security feature, called ‘iSIS’ (Integrated Secure Identification Systems).

To reach the initial production of 1.5 billion pound coins to replace the exsiting coins the Royal Mint used ten presses 24×7 making 140,000 coins per hour. It takes a long time to restock the entire country and that’s why the new coins were dated 2016 and 2017 despite not being legal tender until March 2017.