In 2002 to celebrate the Queen's Golden Jubilee, the Royal Mint in conjunction with Westminster released a special Limited Issue Shield Gold Full Sovereign Coin First Day Cover struck in solid 22 Carat Gold.

In celebration the Royal Mint is paying its own special tribute, a tribute that for numismatics in particular will recall Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee of 1887.
In that year the crowned shield of the Royal Arms, which had featured so prominently on Victoria's beautiful Young Head Sovereigns, was dropped in favour of Pistrucci's St George and The Dragon.

Now in 2002 and for one year only, in a pleasing reversal of what happened in that previous Golden Jubilee year, the Royal Arms are being restored in place of Pistrucci's St George.
Re-drawn by Timothy Noad, a herald painter at the College of Arms, the design will grace all four coins of the sovereign family.
The obverse bears the portrait of Queen Elizabeth II by Ian Rank Broadley.

• Limited Mintage 2,000 Worldwide
• Finished to Royal Mint's Bullion Uncirculated Quality
• Struck in Solid 22 Carat Gold
• Commemorating the Memorial of the Queen Mother
• First Day Cover