5 Pounds - Elizabeth II Queen Victoria Gold (2001)

We have no sold price for this coin yet. This range is the middle of what 8 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 Queen Mother 100th Birthday – Gold Proof (2000) £2,130
• 5 Pounds - Elizabeth II Queen Mother – Gold Proof (2002) £2,120
• 5 Pounds - Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee – Gold Proof (2002) £2,750
• 5 Pounds - Elizabeth II Diana, Princess of Wales – Gold Proof (1999) £4,563
• 5 Pounds - Elizabeth II 50th Coronation Jubilee – Gold Proof (2003) £2,800

About the 2001 5 Pounds - Elizabeth II Queen Victoria – Gold

The 2001 5 Pounds - Elizabeth II Queen Victoria – Gold is a collector 5 pounds coin, struck in 91.67% gold. It weighs 39.94g and measures 38.61mm across. Reverse design: A representation of Crystal Palace within the value FIVE POUNDS, stylised railway lines in the shape of a V incorporating a portrait of Queen Victoria, remnant of the words ONE PENNY and anniversary dates of 1901 and 2001.

733 were struck.

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History and design

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

Queen Victoria died in 1901, and this crown marks the hundredth anniversary of her death and the end of the Victorian era. The Royal Mint Advisory Committee ran a very limited competition for the design. At its meeting at Goldsmiths' Hall on 30 March 2000 it chose a drawing by Mary Milner Dickens to recommend to the Chancellor. A proclamation given at Buckingham Palace on 13 December 2000 then authorised the coin in gold, silver and cupro-nickel.

The Royal Mint's 2001-02 annual report says the crown went on sale from 21 May 2001 at its face value of five pounds, with sales of around 0.7 million by March 2002. The Mint's striking table gives 851,491 cupro-nickel coins for 2001, the only crown that year. That is the lowest figure for any £5 crown from 1990 to 2005, and well below the 1,407,300 of the 1998 Prince of Wales crown, the lowest of the 1990s.

The reverse packs the era into one composition. The proclamation describes architectural tracery symbolic of the Crystal Palace, divided by stylised railway lines in the shape of a V. Within the V are a portrait of Queen Victoria, a remnant of the words ONE PENNY, and the dates 1901 and 2001. The Mint's 2000-01 report says the design "conveys something of the social, economic and industrial progress of that remarkable era".

Mary Milner Dickens had also designed the Public Libraries 50p of 2000. The obverse carries Ian Rank-Broadley's portrait of the Queen with the inscription ELIZABETH.II.D.G REG.F.D and the date. The proclamation gives a grained, or milled, edge.