Five Pounds
1993 Gold Proof Five Pound Crown – 40th Anniversary of the Coronation
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The 1993 gold proof crown was issued to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II.
2022 Five Pounds – 100th Anniversary of the Discovery of Tutankhamun’s Tomb
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In 1922 the British archaeologist and Egyptologist Howard Carter discovered the best preserved Pharaonic tomb ever found in the Valley of the Kings - Tutankhamun's Tomb. Tutankhamun reigned in the 18th Dynasty, around 1332 – 1323BC. He was a boy King, being only 19 when he died.
2022 Five Pounds HM Queen Elizabeth II – Charles III
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Memorial £5 coin minted to honour her late Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. One of the first coins to feature His Majesty King Charles III on the obverse.
2023 Royal Tudor Beasts £5 BU – Yale of Beaufort
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The Yale of Beaufort is probably the strangest of the ten Tudor Beasts; it has the body of a goat, tusks of a boar and tail of a lion.
2022 Five Pounds – 40th Birthday of Duke of Cambridge
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Five Pound coin to celebrate the birthday of HRH The Duke of Cambridge (Prince William). The coin is available as Uncirculated, Silver Proof, Silver Proof Piedfort, Gold Proof and also as a range of weights of Gold Proof coins.
2020 Five Pound Coin – Tower of London: The Royal Menagerie
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One of the strange stories of the Tower of London was that in 1235 Henry III (1216-72) created maybe the first zoo of exotic animals seen in England.