2001 £5 Crown

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Only one crown was issued in 2001. There wasn’t a lot going on in 2001, so the best the Royal Mint could come up with was a crown to commemorate 100 years since the end of the Victorian era. Wouldn’t it be nice to have the odd year where a lot fewer commemorative coins were issued!?

Commemorative £5 Coin, Type 9:

Obverse Type (bust design by Ian Rank-Broadley):

Reverse Type (design by Mary Milner-Dickens):

Edge: Milled edge.

Mintage for Circulation: 851,491.

Collectability/Scarcity: 1 (for scale details see here)

The story behind the design:

The obverse shows the Ian Rank-Broadley bust of the Queen. The reverse by Mary Milner-Dickens shows part of a Victorian stamp with a bust Queen Victoria, within a ‘V’ made of stylised railway tracks, surrounded by architectural elements of the Crystal Palace. Queen Victoria is, at the time of writing, the longest reigning British (or English) monarch to date.

http://www.royal.gov.uk/historyofthemonarchy/kingsandqueensoftheunitedkingdom/thehanoverians/victoria.aspx

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