5 Pounds - Charles III Life and legacy of the Queen Platinum Piedfort (2022)

About the 2022 5 Pounds - Charles III Life and legacy of the Queen – Platinum Piedfort

The 2022 5 Pounds - Charles III Life and legacy of the Queen – Platinum Piedfort is a collector 5 pounds coin, struck in 99.95% platinum. It weighs 94.2g and measures 38.61mm across. Reverse design: Two portraits of Her Late Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, one in her younger years and the other in later life, with crown above and royal cypher below, all within inner circle with legend above and dates below.

88 were struck.

Common questions

History and design

This is a collector version of the 5 Pounds - Charles III Life and legacy of the Queen. The history below is that coin's; the mintage, varieties and collecting notes on its page do not apply to this strike.

This £5 is the Royal Mint's memorial crown for Queen Elizabeth II, sold under the title Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. It was authorised by a proclamation given at Buckingham Palace on 13 September 2022, in the first year of the new reign, which came into force the next day. The proclamation covers the same design in gold, standard silver, silver piedfort, platinum piedfort and cupro-nickel.

It was sold to collectors and was never issued into change. The Royal Mint's memorial sales page lists 119,954 Brilliant Uncirculated coins in the standard pack, 41,537 in trade packaging and 3,192 in a coin and stamp set, a total of 164,683. That is a large figure for a modern crown, though below the 264,721 standard packs of the Platinum Jubilee £5 earlier in 2022.

The reverse shows two portraits of Queen Elizabeth II. The proclamation describes it as a depiction of two portraits of Her Late Majesty accompanied by her Royal Cypher and the inscription ELIZABETH REGINA with the dates 1926 and 2022. The Royal Mint credits the design to John Bergdahl and The Royal Mint.

The obverse carries the portrait of King Charles III by Martin Jennings, with the inscription CHARLES III D G REX F D 5 POUNDS and the date 2022. So the coin shows the late Queen on one side and her successor on the other.

On the cupro-nickel coin the edge is milled. The proclamation gives the precious-metal coins a plain edge with the incuse inscription ELIZABETH II DEVOTED TO YOUR SERVICE, a detail that does not appear on the base-metal crown.