The Royal Mint - Regular readers of
The Royal Mint blog would have seen our announcement, earlier this year, of a new bullion coin release:
The Lion of England, the first in a series of coins that represent The Queen's Beasts. Well, we are delighted to say that this dramatic design has now been given the full
Royal Mint Proof treatment, and is now available in our highest quality finish in a range of precious metals.
So What Exactly Are the Queen's Beasts?The Queen's Beasts are a series of statues, sculpted by James Woodford RA at the request of the British Ministry of Works, which stood guard outside Westminster Abbey at the Coronation of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II on 2 June 1953. Six foot tall and cast in plaster, they each represent a particular heraldic story from The Queen's ancestral history.
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