5 Pounds - Charles III Queen's Lion Silver Proof (2026)
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Year | 2026 |
| Denomination | 5 Pounds |
| Face value | £5 |
| Mint | Royal Mint · Llantrisant |
| Circulation | Non-circulating |
| Composition | Silver (.999) (999/1000 fine) |
| Weight | 62.860g · 2.0190 t oz |
| Diameter | 40.0mm |
| Shape | Round |
| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
| Grade scale | UK (EF/UNC) |
Uncrowned portrait of King Charles III left, legend and date around.
A depiction of the Queen's Lion with a shield bears a fort, a crowned hawthorn and a golden phoenix atop a mount, legend around, date below.
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About the 2026 5 Pounds - Charles III Queen's Lion – Silver Proof
The 2026 5 Pounds - Charles III Queen's Lion – Silver Proof is a collector 5 pounds coin, struck in 99.9% silver. It weighs 62.86g and measures 40mm across. Reverse design: A depiction of the Queen's Lion with a shield bears a fort, a crowned hawthorn and a golden phoenix atop a mount, legend around, date below.
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How much is the 2026 5 Pounds - Charles III Queen's Lion – Silver Proof worth?
No verified sale of the 2026 5 Pounds - Charles III Queen's Lion – Silver Proof has been logged on MyCoinage yet. Its silver content is worth about £74.01 at today's spot price, which puts a floor under its value.
How do I identify the 2026 5 Pounds - Charles III Queen's Lion – Silver Proof?
Check the weight 62.86g and diameter 40mm and the metal (99.9% silver) against the specification table on this page. The reverse design is described above.
History and design
This is a collector version of the 5 Pounds - Charles III Queen's Lion. The history below is that coin's; the mintage, varieties and collecting notes on its page do not apply to this strike.
Ten stone beasts line the Moat Bridge of Hampton Court Palace, representing the lineage of Henry VIII and his third wife, Jane Seymour. The Royal Mint's Royal Tudor Beasts Collection puts each of them on a £5 crown, made with Historic Royal Palaces, and the Queen's Lion is one of the two beasts on 2026-dated crowns in the Mint's list of £5 designs, alongside the Royal Dragon. The Mint says Henry VIII chose the Queen's Lion to represent and legitimise his claim to the English throne, and calls it one of the oldest and most recognisable symbols in British heraldry.
The bridge was completed in 1536 during the king's marriage to Jane Seymour, though work began while he was married to Anne Boleyn. When William III and Mary II remodelled the palace in the seventeenth century, the beasts were thrown down to help fill the moat and lay buried for over 150 years. Reclamation of the bridge began in 1909. Only fragments of the beasts survived, so new statues were designed by the Reverend E. E. Dorling and modelled by George Wilson. Those did not weather well, and the replicas guarding the palace today were made in the 1950s.
The reverse is by David Lawrence, the illustrator and sculptor whose work appears on all ten coins in the collection. The Royal Mint says he took his inspiration from the statues but chose not to copy them, balancing heraldic style with the energy of the animals and keeping the shields unchanged apart from the perspective. He works entirely by hand. The proclamation describes a depiction of the Queen's Lion with the inscription QUEEN'S LION and the date of the year.
The obverse carries Martin Jennings's portrait of King Charles III with the inscription CHARLES III D G REX F D 5 POUNDS. The edge is milled.
Sources
- £5 Coin Designs and Specifications, The Royal Mint (read 9 Oct 2026)
- The Royal Tudor Beasts The Queen's Lion 2026 UK £5 Brilliant Uncirculated Coin, The Royal Mint (read 10 Oct 2026)
- Proclamation determining the specifications and designs for a new series of five hundred pound, two hundred pound, one hundred pound, twenty-five pound and fifty pence gold coins; standard silver coins; silver piedfort coins; and five pound cupro-nickel coins (notice 4874357, 9 May 2025), The Gazette (read 10 Oct 2026)
- The Royal Tudor Beasts Collection, The Royal Mint (read 10 Oct 2026)
- The Story of The Royal Tudor Beasts, The Royal Mint (read 10 Oct 2026)
- Commemorative Coin Striking Numbers, The Royal Mint (read 10 Oct 2026)
- The Queen's Lion Competition, The Royal Mint (read 10 Oct 2026)
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