2023 Five Pounds – Mary Seacole – Silver Proof -£5 coin celebrating Mary Seacole (1805-1881). Mary was awarded the Jamaican Order of Merit (posthumously) in 1990. In 2003 the Every Generation website voted her 'The Greatest Black Briton'.
2023 Five Pounds – Shirley Bassey -As part of the Royal Mint's Music Legends collection, this coin celebrates the career of the Welsh singer Dame Shirley Bassey.
2023 Five Pounds Pride of England – Charles III -A £5 coin to commemorate the England’s Lionesses, the successful England women’s football team. The Reverse, by Norman Sillman, shows the classic Three Lions design which was originally used on the 1997 one-pound coin.
2022 Queen’s Reign £5 – Charity and Patronage -This was the second coin in a Royal Mint collection called The Queen's Reign. The first coin celebrates the role of Her Majesty in awarding honours that recognise individual service, this second coin concerns charitable work and the third coin celebrates the Queen as Head of the Commonwealth. Each coin has the Queen’s signature, which is a first for UK coins.
2023 British Monarchs King Henry VIII – Five Pounds 2oz Silver Proof -The fifth coin in the Royal Mint's British Monarchs series is King Henry VIII. Henry VIII was born in 28 June 1491, his parents being King Henry VII of England and Elizabeth of York. He became King in 1509 aged just seventeen.