1953 Elizabeth II Coronation BU 5 Shillings (Crown) Silver Layered and Gold Plated

Description

Commemorative issue

Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, 1953

Obverse

A portrait of HM Queen Elizabeth II mounted on her horse Winston, dressed in her uniform as Colonel-in-Chief of the Grenadier Guards and as worn by Her Majesty during the ceremony of Trooping the Colour.

Engraver: Gilbert Ledward

Reverse

The four quarterings of the Royal Arms each contained in a shield and arranged in saltire with, in the intervening spaces, a rose, a thistle, a sprig of shamrock and a leek; in the centre the Crown and in the base the date.

Engravers: Edgar Fuller, Cecil Thomas