5 Pounds - Charles III Liberty's Department Store (2025)
"150 Years of Liberty £5"
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Year | 2025 |
| Denomination | 5 Pounds |
| Face value | £5 |
| Mint | Royal Mint · Llantrisant |
| Circulation | Non-circulating |
| Composition | Copper-nickel |
| Weight | 28.280g |
| Diameter | 38.6mm |
| Shape | Round |
| Edge | Milled |
| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
| Obv. artist | Martin Jennings |
| Rev. artist | Liberty Design Team |
| Grade scale | UK (EF/UNC) |
Uncrowned portrait of King Charles III left, legend and date around.
· CHARLES III · D · G · REX · F · D · 5 POUNDS ·
A depiction of Liberty London Department Store with a decorative paisley style motif
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About the 2025 5 Pounds - Charles III Liberty's Department Store
The 2025 5 Pounds - Charles III Liberty's Department Store is a collector 5 pounds coin, struck in copper-nickel. It weighs 28.28g and measures 38.61mm across. Reverse design: A depiction of Liberty London Department Store with a decorative paisley style motif.
Common questions
How much is the 2025 5 Pounds - Charles III Liberty's Department Store worth?
No verified sale of the 2025 5 Pounds - Charles III Liberty's Department Store has been logged on MyCoinage yet.
How do I tell the colour Liberty £5 from the plain one?
The colour coin has the reverse design printed in colour, while the plain coin is bare cupro-nickel. Size, weight, date and design are otherwise identical. The Royal Mint gives the colour-printed Brilliant Uncirculated coin a maximum coin mintage of 7,500 and states no limit for the plain coin.
How many colour Liberty £5 coins are there?
The Royal Mint's product page gives a maximum coin mintage of 7,500 for the colour-printed Brilliant Uncirculated coin. That is the most that could be made, not a count of coins sold. The Mint has not published a sales figure for either cupro-nickel version.
What is shown on the Liberty £5 coin?
Liberty's London store with a decorative paisley style motif and the inscriptions LIBERTY. and 150 YEARS, as the royal proclamation describes it. Liberty's Design Manager, Pere Bruach, said it includes a hand-painted snapshot of The Liberty Stage print made for the 150th anniversary.
Was the Liberty £5 coin issued for circulation?
No. It was sold to collectors from 12 May 2025 through the Royal Mint and at Liberty's anniversary exhibition shop. The Royal Mint says crowns have not been struck to a circulating standard since 2008 and are intended as souvenirs, though they remain legal tender.
How do I identify the 2025 5 Pounds - Charles III Liberty's Department Store?
Check the weight 28.28g and diameter 38.61mm and the metal (copper-nickel) against the specification table on this page. The reverse design is described above.
History and design
The Royal Mint issued two base-metal versions of its 2025 crown for the 150th anniversary of Liberty: a plain Brilliant Uncirculated coin and the same coin with the reverse printed in colour. The Mint's launch statement said a selection of the coins would be available in colour, "bringing the bold colours Liberty is known for to life on metal".
The coin was unveiled on 9 May 2025 and the full range went on sale on 12 May. It marks the founding of the business by Arthur Lasenby Liberty in 1875. The Mint's director of commemorative coin, Rebecca Morgan, said the £5 marked a chapter in the Mint's history as the first official UK coin to celebrate a fashion house.
Neither version was made for circulation. The Royal Mint says crowns ceased to be struck to a circulating standard from 2008, and its £5 page describes them as souvenirs that are rarely found in change.
The reverse was created in the Liberty Design studio and is credited by the Mint to the Liberty Design Team, with Design Manager Pere Bruach named as its creator. The proclamation describes a depiction of Liberty London with a decorative paisley style motif, with the inscriptions LIBERTY. and 150 YEARS. The Mint says elements of Liberty's anniversary fabric collection appear in the design, and Bruach identified the pattern as The Liberty Stage print.
The obverse carries the portrait of King Charles III by Martin Jennings, the inscription CHARLES III D G REX F D 5 POUNDS and the date 2025. The edge is milled. Both versions are cupro-nickel, 28.28g and 38.61mm.
Collecting notes
No recognised varieties or mint errors are documented for this coin.
The quickest check is the reverse: colour on the design means the limited coin, bare metal means the standard one. The colour coin has a maximum coin mintage of 7,500. That figure is an issue limit set by the Mint, and no sales total has been published for either version, so it cannot yet be said how many of each reached collectors.
The coins were sold by the Royal Mint and were also offered in the shop of the anniversary archive exhibition at Liberty's flagship store, where they were on display from 12 May to the end of July 2025. Colour printing marks easily, so a colour coin that has left its pack should be examined closely.
Silver proof and gold proof £5 coins share the design. The other entry for this coin is the 150 Years of Liberty £5.
Sources
The history, design, varieties and collecting notes on this page are drawn from these sources. Prices come from recorded sales, not from them.
- £5 Coin Designs and Specifications, The Royal Mint (read 9 Oct 2026)
- Minted in Style: Royal Mint Strikes Chic UK Coin for Liberty (press release, 9 May 2025), The Royal Mint (read 10 Oct 2026)
- Proclamation determining the specifications and designs for a new series of twenty-five pound and five pound gold coins, five pound standard silver coins, five pound silver piedfort coins and five pound cupro-nickel coins (notice 4847403, 4 April 2025), The Gazette (read 10 Oct 2026)
- 150 Years of Liberty 2025 £5 Brilliant Uncirculated Coin, The Royal Mint (read 10 Oct 2026)
- 150 Years of Liberty 2025 £5 Brilliant Uncirculated Colour Coin, The Royal Mint (read 10 Oct 2026)
- Commemorative Coin Striking Numbers, The Royal Mint (read 10 Oct 2026)
- 150 Years of Liberty (range page), The Royal Mint (read 10 Oct 2026)
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