1 Pound - Elizabeth II 5th portrait Nations of the Crown (2016–2022)

One row for each year the 1 Pound - Elizabeth II 5th portrait – Nations of the Crown was struck. Prices are medians of verified sold listings matched to that year from the listing: circulated is worn condition up to Extremely Fine, uncirculated is About Uncirculated or better. A count in brackets means fewer than three sales behind the figure; a grey figure marked "type" is the median across every year, shown where that year has no sale of its own yet. Most types have been searched year by year only since October 2026, so later years are still filling in. Use the grade table below for a price by condition across all years.

About the 2016 1 Pound - Elizabeth II – Nations of the Crown

The 2016 1 Pound - Elizabeth II – Nations of the Crown is a circulating 1 pound coin issued from 2016 to 2022 in the Round Pound series, struck in bimetallic: nickel plated brass center in nickel brass ring. It weighs 8.75g and measures 23.4mm across. Reverse design: An English rose, Welsh leek, Scottish thistle and Northern Irish shamrock emerging from one stem within a royal coronet, with the.

Mintage figures are recorded for 7 years between 2016 and 2022, 1,753,082,905 coins in all. 2022 is the scarcest date, with 7,735,000 struck.

Common questions

History and design

The 12-sided £1 replaced the round pound, which had been in use since 1983, with what the Royal Mint describes as a highly secure coin. The Royal Mint introduced the new coin on 28 March 2017. The two coins circulated side by side for about six months, and the round pound lost its legal tender status at midnight on 15 October 2017.

Production started well ahead of the launch, so the first coins are dated 2016. The Royal Mint's circulating figures are 648,936,536 for 2016 and 749,616,200 for 2017. Output then fell sharply: 130,560,000 for 2018, 138,635,000 for 2019, 55,840,169 for 2020, 21,760,000 for 2021 and 7,735,000 for 2022. The total is 1,753,082,905, and the 2022 date is by far the smallest.

The reverse is known as Nations of the Crown. It shows a rose, a leek, a thistle and a shamrock, for England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, growing from a single stem inside a royal coronet, with ONE POUND below. It was designed by David Pearce, then a 15-year-old pupil at Queen Mary's Grammar School in Walsall, whose entry was chosen from more than 6,000 in a public competition. The winner was announced on 17 March 2015.

The obverse carries the fifth portrait of Elizabeth II by Jody Clark. The coin is bimetallic, with a gold-coloured nickel-brass outer ring and a silver-coloured nickel-plated inner. Below the portrait is a latent image that switches between a pound sign and the numeral 1 as the coin is tilted. Tiny lettering on the inner rim reads ONE POUND on the obverse and gives the year on the reverse. The edge alternates between milled and plain sides.

Varieties and errors

No varieties appear in the Royal Mint's own figures. The Mint acknowledged in 2017 that small variances can occur when coins are struck at very high speed, and Change Checker reported its view that such mis-strikes are unusual but are not the same as recognised errors.

Coins with a missing, rotated or reversed centre need care, because the two parts can be forced apart after a coin leaves the Mint. A 2016 obverse paired with 2017 micro-lettering on the reverse has been reported by collectors, but it remains unconfirmed.

Collecting notes

Every date from 2016 to 2022 was struck for circulation and the coin remains legal tender, so all of them can turn up in change. The 2016 and 2017 dates make up the great majority, and the dates from 2020 onwards take longer to find.

The design ended with the Queen's reign and was followed by the Bees £1 of Charles III. The farewell issue for the old coin is the Last Round Pound.