2007 Diamond Wedding Crown

Obverse of 2007 Queens Diamond Wedding £5 Crown

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Reverse of 2007 Queens Diamond Wedding £5 Crown

On 20 November 2007 Her Majesty The Queen and His Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh will celebrate their Diamond Wedding Anniversary. As a tribute to this happy occasion, the Royal Mint has been authorised to produce a magnificent commemorative crown which bears two specially created designs. A commissioned conjoint portrait of the Queen and Prince Philip features on the obverse while the reverse beautifully depicts the north rose window at Westminster Abbey. Struck to Brilliant Uncirculated standard, the splendid coin is housed in a beautifully illustrated presentation folder.

Photographs - Royal Mint Policy
We do have access to better quality photograph than we have used here, but the high resolution pictures we have are suject to an embargo. We are not permitted to show them to you until 1st April 2007! We feel this is a typical example of the Royal Mint's rather silly and confused marketing and communication. For example, they themselves have already published a high definition image in their own advertising for the ordinary circulation version of this coin. We will be adding this image soon.
When we do receive our first delivery of the silver proof version, we will take our own photographs, which we predict will be better than those supplied by the Mint, and substitute them for the existing poor quality ones.
It's a great shame that the British Royal Mint don't just delegate its marketing and production to the Perth Mint, who seem to be able to produce better quality coins at more competitive prices than our own Mint!

Obverse:
Conjoined portraits of the Queen and Prince Philip, similar to those on the 1997 Golden Wedding crown.
ELIZABETH II DEI GRA REG F D PHILIP PRINCEPS

Reverse:
The reverse of the 2007 crown is based on a stained glass window from Westminster Abbey.

Edge
The edge is inscribed in incuse lettering:-
VIVAT REGINA ELIZABETHA

Specifications
All versions:-
Denomination (face value) £5
Diameter 38.61mm

Version	Alloy	Weight	Issue
Silver Proof	Sterling (.925) Silver	28.28 grams	35,000
Gold Proof	22 Carat (.917)	39.94 grams	2,500
Uncirculated	Cupro-Nickel	28.28 grams	2,396,100

For Sale

Version	Alloy	In Stock	Issue Price £	Price £	Price $
Uncirculated Specimen in Folder	Cupro-Nickel	2007	£9.95	£Ask	$Ask
Proof	Silver	Yes	£39.50	£37.50	$67.50
Proof	Gold	1st April	£775	£695	$1,395
Proof	Platinum Piedfort	2007	£3,995?	£Ask	$Ask

2007 Queen's Diamond Wedding £5 for £5
Each year, both the Royal Mint, Westminster Collections, and others, offer a loss-leader of a £5 crown for £5, post free. This is to get you onto their mailing lists, and into their clutches, usually so they can market their more profitable items at you. Here at Chard, we don't believe in this type of aggressive marketing, and some years back, we stopped offering the ordinary circulation crowns because we recieved too may complaints about the quality of their finish, even though this is a factor which is beyond our control.
We noticed the Royal Mint's offer which is restricted to one coin per household

The Royal Mint has received approval to issue an historic new British coin on the occasion of The Queen's Diamond Wedding. The £5 coin will be available for one year only and is sure to be a real collector's item. As we are expecting unprecedented demand we are issuing a limit of one per household and have introduced a special application procedure to allow you to order your coin in advance. Don’t miss your chance to be amongst the first to own one for no more than the face value of £5. The Queen’s Diamond Wedding £5 coin will be sent direct from the Royal Mint in 2007, in time to celebrate The Queen’s 80th birthday on 21st April.

Gold £5 Crowns
For current pricing on the gold proof versions of any of the Five Pound Crowns, from 1990 onwards, please use the £5 Gold Coins pages of our "Tax Free Gold" website.

British Platinum Piedfort Crowns
Starting in 2004, the Royal Mint has issued platinum piedfort proof crowns. These are naturally very expensive. We can usually supply them new to order if required, but we prefer to source lower priced ones from the secondary market. Please contact us if you are interested.

Platinum Bullion Coins
Platinum coins are subject to VAT in the UK, so we have not until recently offered new platinum bullion coins, however, we can now obtain and supply them to special order. If demand is sufficiently high, we will start to carry them in stock.

2007 Coin Sets

2007 Coins

See also our British Coin Sets page.

Postage & Packing:
UK: At buyer's Risk £2.50 or
Fully Insured £6 (Usually by Royal Mail Special Delivery)
USA: Airmail at buyer's risk $10 or
Fully Insured $20
For further details, please see our Postage & Packing page.

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