2001 United Kingdom 1 Pound Silver Proof and 1 Pound Silver Piedfort Proof Coins

Description

This sale is for
BOTH
2001 United Kingdom One Pound Silver Proof Coin
AND
the 2001 United Kingdom One Pound Silver Piedfort Proof Coin.
They each come with their case and COA. The case of the One Pound Silver Proof coin is blue and the case of the One Pound Silver Piedfort
Proof Coin is red.
2001 United Kingdom One Pound Silver Proof Coin                               2001 United Kingdom One Pound Silver Piedfort Proof Coin
Mintage:  25,000                                                                                       Mintage: 10,000
Composition:  .925 Sterling Silver                                                                Composition: .925 Sterling Silver
Weight:  9.50 grams                                                                                  Weight:  1 grams
Diameter:  22.50 mm                                                                                 Diameter:  22.50 mm
Finish:  Proof                                                                                            Finish:  Proof
Piedforts are coins which have been struck on thicker than normal
blanks.  They are twice the thickness and twice the weight on the
One Pound Silver Proof coin.
The 2001 One Pound coin, the third in a four-year series of coins representing the four constituent parts of the United Kingdom, honors Northern
Ireland.  It features on the reverse the intricate and inspirational design created by Norman Sillman, that reaches deep into the history of Northern Ireland.
A richly decorated Irish-style cross provides the background to a representation of a collar found by a ploughman in Broighter, Co. Londonderry, in 1896.
At the center of the design lies a pimpernel, a lovely yellow flower that flourishes around Lough Neagh, the great island freshwater lake to which
are linked five of Northern Ireland's six counties.
Like the previous one pound coins of Northern Ireland, this year's coin includes the edge transcription
DECUS ET TUTAMEN
which means
"an ornament ad a safeguard"
The obverse carries the royal portrait by Ian Rank-Broadley, FRBS, PSNAD.
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