5 Pounds - Elizabeth II Queen's 95th Birthday Gold Proof (2021)

We have no sold price for this coin yet. This range is the middle of what 12 similar coins sold for as issued: the same denomination and metal, struck within 5 years. The lower figure is its metal value today. Treat it as a guide, not a valuation.

• 5 Pounds - Elizabeth II Alfred The Great – Gold Proof (2021) £2,410
• 5 Pounds - Elizabeth II Prince Philip – Gold Proof (2021) £1,860
• 5 Pounds - Elizabeth II Royal Albert Hall – Gold Proof (2021) £1,950
• 5 Pounds - Charles III Life and legacy of the Queen – Gold Proof (2022) £2,500
• 5 Pounds - Elizabeth II King George III – Gold Proof (2020) £2,821

About the 2021 5 Pounds - Elizabeth II Queen's 95th Birthday – Gold Proof

The 2021 5 Pounds - Elizabeth II Queen's 95th Birthday – Gold Proof is a collector 5 pounds coin, struck in 91.67% gold. It weighs 39.94g and measures 38.61mm across. Reverse design: Floral emblems of the United Kingdom accompanied by Our Royal Cypher, legend around, dates above.

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History and design

This is a collector version of the 5 Pounds - Elizabeth II – Queen's 95th Birthday. The history below is that coin's; the mintage, varieties and collecting notes on its page do not apply to this strike.

In 2021 Elizabeth II became the first British monarch to celebrate a 95th birthday, and the Royal Mint marked it with this £5 crown. It continued the run of birthday crowns that included her 90th in 2016.

The design was authorised by a royal proclamation given at Windsor Castle on 11 November 2020, in versions running from the cupro-nickel crown to a 9.5 kilo gold coin, of which the Mint sold one. The cupro-nickel coin came in a fold-out wallet of images from The Queen's 95 years.

It was the most popular crown of 2021. The Royal Mint's sales page lists 23,984 Brilliant Uncirculated coins, 41,700 in trade packaging, 2,083 coin and stamp sets and 9,525 Premium Pack coins, 77,292 in all. That is close to the 84,376 sold of the 90th birthday coin five years earlier.

The reverse is by Timothy Noad, whom the Royal Mint describes as a heraldic artist, and the Mint calls it a posy for The Queen, a floral tribute from the four nations of the UK. The proclamation describes the floral emblems of the United Kingdom with the Royal Cypher and the inscription MY HEART AND MY DEVOTION 1926 2021, the year of her birth and the year of the anniversary.

The obverse carries Jody Clark's fifth definitive portrait with ELIZABETH II D G REG F D 5 POUNDS 2021. The standard coin has a milled edge. The gold and silver proofs have a plain edge lettered FULL OF HONOUR AND YEARS, the same inscription used on the precious-metal 90th birthday coins.