New Pattern One Pound Coins - Bridges

2003 Silver Proof Pattern One Pound Coin Set in Presentation Box

Obverse of 2003 Silver Proof Pattern One Pound

Forth Railway Bridge Design on Reverse of 2004 Pattern One Pound Coin

Menai Strait Bridge Design on Reverse of 2005 Pattern One Pound Coin

Egyptian Arch Bridge Design on Reverse of 2006 Pattern One Pound Coin

Millennium Bridge Design on Reverse of 2007 Pattern One Pound Coin

Silver Proof Pattern Bridges Set

Quantity	Rate	Buy
1	£75.00

The Royal Mint issued limited edition collector sets of the coins in gold and silver, known as 'pattern pieces' these special 2003-dated coins were produced to familiarise collectors with the new designs.They are not legal tender.

The coins in the sets will have on the obverse the portrait of the Queen by Ian Rank-Broadley, approved for use on United Kingdom coins from 1998, and they will be dated 2003.

The coins feature reverse bridge designs representing England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. (The Forth Bridge for Scotland, The Menai Straits Bridge for Wales, MacNeill's Egyptian Arch for Northern Ireland and The Millennium Bridge, in Gateshead, for England.) The reverse designs are by wood engraver Edwina Ellis, who won a limited competition judged by the Royal Mint Advisory Committee.

The new series of designs was required because the existing four-year sequence of reverse designs came to an end in 2002. It will represent the third series of £1 reverse designs. The first series of "Floral" designs was used between 1984 and 1987 and again between 1989 and 1992. The second series of "Heraldry" designs was used between 1994 and 1997 and was then repeated between 1999 and 2002. During the intervening years, and in 2003, designs representing the whole of the United Kingdom were employed.

The coins in the sets will be referred to as pattern pieces, that is, proposed coins and consequently they will have no status as current or legal tender coins. They will have plain edges and will therefore differ from the legal tender versions of the coins to be issued between 2004 and 2007, which will have a decorative design on the edge.

Precedents exist in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries for the Mint issuing pattern pieces.(For example the George V Silver Jubilee Crown of 1935 and a plain edged sovereign of George VI in 1937.)

Pound Coin Dates & Designs

Date	Country	Design
2003	All 4 as patterns	All 4 as gold and silver patterns
2004	Scotland	Forth Railway Bridge
2005	Wales	Menai Straits Bridge
2006	Northern Ireland	Sir John Macneill's Egyptian Arch
2007	England	Gateshead Millennium Bridge

Technical Specifications

Version	Diameter	Weight	Metal	Alloy	ASW	Grade	Issue Limit	Issue Price
Silver Proof Patterns	22.50	9.50	Silver	.925	0.2825	FDC
Silver Proof Set of 4	22.50	38	Silver	.925	1.13	FDC	7,500	£97.50

Notes
Diameter = Diameter in millimetres
Weight = Weight in grams
Alloy = Proportion of precious metal
ASW = Actual weight in relevant precious metal content in troy ounces.

Postage & Packing:
UK: At buyer's Risk £3.50 or
Fully Insured £9 (Usually by Royal Mail Special Delivery)
USA: Airmail at buyer's risk $10 or
Fully Insured $20
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