New One Pound Coins - Bridges

Obverse of 2007 Silver Proof One Pound

Reverse of 2007 Silver Proof One Pound

2007 Silver Proof One Pound in Presentation Box

Gateshead Millennium Bridge Design
The Gateshead Millennium Bridge will appear on the 2007 pound coin representing England. According to the Royal Mint, the new series of reverse designs is required because the existing four-year sequence of £1 coins has come to an end. The designs depict bridges from England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. The designer is engraver Edwina Ellis, who won a limited competition judged by the Royal Mint Advisory Committee. 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 Mint will be issuing sets of the new series of one pound coin designs later this year (2003). The coins in these sets will be struck in gold and silver. The issue limit on the gold set will be 3000. The issue limit on the silver set will be 7500. Details can be found on our 2003 Bridge Designs Pattern Pound Coins page.

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 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.)

Technical Specifications

Version	Diameter	Weight	Metal	Alloy	AMW
Uncirculated in Folder	22.50	9.50	Nickel-brass
Silver Proof	22.50	9.50	Silver	0.925 Silver	0.2825
Piedfort Silver Proof	22.50	19	Silver	0.925 Silver	0.5650
Gold Proof	22.50	19.61	Gold	0.9166 Gold	0.5779

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

Version	Issue Limit	Issue Price £
Uncirculated in Folder		£6.95
Silver Proof, Box & Certificate	10,110	£28.95
Silver Piedfort Proof, Box & Certificate	5,739
Gold Proof, Box & Certificate	1,112

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