Featured as our Product of the Month for July, we have the unique ‘Prince William 40th Birthday 2022 Five Pound Silver Proof Coin and 1982 Heritage Set’. This special collector’s set includes the new 2022 British commemorative silver proof five pound coin for Prince William’s 40th Birthday, along with a full set of proof British circulation coins from his birth year, 1982.
This year is a cause for great royal celebration; not only is it Her Majesty’s Platinum Jubilee, the first of its kind in British history, but it is also the 40th birthday of our second in line to the throne, HRH Prince William. It seems like it was only yesterday when we were watching a radiant Princess Diana leaving the hospital cradling her first born son. Now, forty years later, he is a father himself to three children, all of whom follow him in the line of succession.
The full set of British circulation coins from 1982 are included in this set, but the coins in this set are specially produced silver Proof quality coins that were struck and released 40 years ago. They are superb for coins of their age! The coins are all of a kind no longer on issue. The reverse designs on these coins haven’t been produced for 14 years and the portrait of the Queen on the obverse was last used 37 years ago.
There are some other interesting features worth mentioning about this set, such as the fact that the halfpenny is no longer produced, with the one in 1982 being the 3rd last issue. The penny is minted in bronze, but in the 1990’s the price of copper increased, so today it is steel plated with copper. The two pence, five pence and ten pence coins were also never released into circulation but are included in this set. The twenty pence is an important first in the British coin series, as the 1982 is the very first issue of the coin. Finally, the fifty pence is an ‘old size’ issue that is larger and heavier than the current £2 coin!
Also in this set is the 2022 silver Proof five pound coin. As part of the celebrations this year for his birthday, Britain has produced a five pound crown-sized commemorative coin which features a portrait of Prince William with the number ‘40’ behind his head and his royal cypher before it. It’s interesting historically that this coin includes the portrait of Prince William on one side and that of his grandmother, Queen Elizabeth II on the other; the first British five pound coin ever to feature them on either side of the same coin in this way. This special collector’s set includes the sterling silver version of this coin, minted to Proof quality. Only 3,500 have been minted.
This silver proof set comes housed in a luxury presentation case and will include a Certificate of Authenticity. Secure yours today HERE.