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1 Pound - Elizabeth II 5th portrait Royal Arms (2015)
"Royal Arms £1 (2015)"
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Year | 2015 |
| Denomination | 1 Pound |
| Face value | £1 |
| Mintage | 129,616,985 |
| Mint | Royal Mint · Llantrisant |
| Series | Round Pound Series |
| Circulation | Circulating |
| Demonetised | 2017 |
| Composition | Nickel brass |
| Weight | 9.500g |
| Diameter | 22.5mm |
| Thickness | 3.15mm |
| Shape | Round |
| Edge | Milled with inscription: DECUS ET TUTAMEN |
| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
| Obv. artist | Jody Clark |
| Rev. artist | Timothy Noad |
| Grade scale | UK (EF/UNC) |
Fifth crowned portrait of Queen Elizabeth II right, wearing the George IV State Diadem, legend around.
A reworking of the Royal Arms with a crowned and quartered shield at its centre. The shield is supported by a crowned English lion on the left and a Scottish unicorn on the right. Below sit the rose, thistle, shamrock & leek.
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Realised auction prices · ⭐ Pro Expand rows for individual sale records| Grade | Latest | Median | 30d Δ | All-time range | Sales (1yr) | Total sales | Last sale | |
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| UNC | £5.00 🔒 eBay | £5.00 (1) | – | £5.00 – £5.00 | 1 | 1 | 02-05-2026 | |
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| BU | £11.71 🔒 eBay | £11.71 | – | £5.45 – £19.77 | 9 | 9 | 24-08-2026 | |
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| VF | £7.84 🔒 eBay | £4.99 | – | £1.81 – £9.72 | 11 | 11 | 05-10-2026 | |
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| VG | £3.49 🔒 eBay | £3.49 (1) | – | £3.49 – £3.49 | 1 | 1 | 16-08-2026 | |
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About the 2015 1 Pound - Elizabeth II – Royal Arms
The 2015 1 Pound - Elizabeth II – Royal Arms is a circulating 1 pound coin in the Round Pound series, struck in nickel brass. It weighs 9.5g and measures 22.5mm across. Reverse design: A reworking of the Royal Arms with a crowned and quartered shield at its centre. The shield is supported by a crowned English lion on the left and a Scottish unicorn on the right. Below sit the rose, thistle, shamrock & leek.
129,616,985 were struck. It is no longer legal tender (withdrawn 2017), so its value is to collectors only.
Common questions
How much is the 2015 1 Pound - Elizabeth II – Royal Arms worth?
Verified sold prices for the 2015 1 Pound - Elizabeth II – Royal Arms run from £3.49 to £11.71 across 4 grades, taking the median for each grade. Condition makes the difference, so check the grade table above before pricing one.
How many 2015 Royal Arms £1 coins were made?
The Royal Mint's mintage figures give 129,616,985 struck for circulation. Check Your Change notes that a lower figure of 62,475,640 was quoted at first and later replaced. The current Royal Mint data file shows 129,616,985.
Is the 2015 Royal Arms £1 rare?
No. At 129,616,985 it is one of the most common round pounds. In the Royal Mint's figures only the first three issues are higher: the 1983 Royal Arms, the 1984 Thistle and the 1985 Leek. It is the largest round £1 mintage since 1985.
Who designed the 2015 Royal Arms £1?
Timothy Noad, a heraldic artist at the College of Arms who also designed the floral pounds of 2013 and 2014. The obverse carries the fifth portrait of the Queen by Jody Clark, introduced in 2015.
What inspired the design of the 2015 Royal Arms £1?
According to the Royal Mint, Noad looked to the Hanoverian and Victorian periods and to a version of the Royal Arms on a naval drum from Nelson's time that he saw at Greenwich. It gave the lion and unicorn more prominence than usual, which he thought would suit a coin.
Is the 2015 Royal Arms £1 still legal tender?
No. Like all round pounds it lost legal tender status at midnight on 15 October 2017. The Royal Mint says most UK high street banks will still accept round £1 coins as a deposit into a customer's account.
How do I identify the 2015 1 Pound - Elizabeth II – Royal Arms?
Check the weight 9.5g and diameter 22.5mm and the metal (nickel brass) against the specification table on this page. The reverse design is described above.
History and design
The Royal Mint released this coin to collectors on 1 April 2015 and said the public could expect it in change from November that year. It called it the first new commemorative design on the £1 to carry the fifth portrait of the Queen, and one of the last designs for the round pound, since a new and more secure £1 was already planned for 2017.
The Royal Mint's figures give 129,616,985 struck for circulation. Only the first three round pounds have higher figures: the 1983 Royal Arms, the 1984 Thistle and the 1985 Leek. It is also more than four times the 29,580,000 Royal Shield pounds dated 2015. The two 2015 coins are the last round pounds in the Mint's circulating figures.
The 12-sided £1 followed on 28 March 2017 and round pounds lost legal tender status at midnight on 15 October 2017.
The reverse is Timothy Noad's reworking of the Royal Arms: a quartered shield supported by a crowned English lion and a Scottish unicorn. The Royal Mint described Noad as a Herald Painter at the College of Arms and Scribe and Illuminator to the Crown Office at the House of Lords, who paints the Royal Arms in traditional form many times a year and had long wanted to make his own version.
The Mint says he looked to the Hanoverian and Victorian periods. On a visit to Greenwich he saw the arms on the side of a naval drum from Nelson's time, with the lion and unicorn given much more prominence than usual, and judged that the treatment would work on something as small as a coin.
The milled edge reads DECUS ET TUTAMEN, the inscription used on the first Royal Arms pound of 1983. The obverse has the fifth portrait of Elizabeth II, by Royal Mint designer Jody Clark.
Collecting notes
No recognised varieties or mint errors are documented for this coin.
Three round pounds are dated 2015 and they are easy to confuse in listings. Matthew Dent's Royal Shield exists with the fourth portrait and with the fifth, and this Royal Arms coin has the fifth portrait only. Check both sides: lion and unicorn supporters on the reverse and the Jody Clark portrait on the obverse. The site lists the fifth portrait Royal Shield £1 separately.
The Mint sold the design as a brilliant uncirculated coin in a folder and as a silver proof, a silver piedfort and a gold proof. Those precious-metal versions have their own pages on this site.
With a mintage this large the coin is common, and it had less than two years in use if it reached change late in 2015 as planned. It cannot be spent today. Noad also designed the four floral pounds, starting with the 2013 England coin.
Sources
The history, design, varieties and collecting notes on this page are drawn from these sources. Prices come from recorded sales, not from them.
- UK coin mintage figures (data file), The Royal Mint (read 9 Oct 2026)
- £1 Coin Designs and Specifications, The Royal Mint (read 9 Oct 2026)
- The Royal Arms revisited: a reworking of the celebrated national symbol (1 April 2015, archived copy), The Royal Mint, via the Internet Archive (read 9 Oct 2026)
- Royal Arms Revisited: National Symbol Redesigned on 2015 United Kingdom £1 Coin, CoinWeek (Royal Mint press release) (read 9 Oct 2026)
- 2015 One Pound, Check Your Change (read 9 Oct 2026)
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