In 2018, to celebrate the Queens Beasts, the Royal Mint released a Limited Issue Brilliant Uncirculated Queens Beasts Lion of England £5 Five Pound Coin.

The reverse features the Lion of England while the obverse depicts the Fifth Portrait of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II both designed by Jody Clark.
The Queen’s Beasts Collection, the coin has been updated with a 2018 date mark.

The first recorded use was the gift of a blue shield, decorated with small golden lions, given to Geoffrey Plantagenet by Henry I as he married Henry’s daughter Matilda , in 1127.
As long as England has had a shield of its own, it has always featured the lion in some form – the Norman kings of England used motifs featuring the ferocious beast, a tradition made consistent under Henry II and his son Richard I the ‘Lionheart’ in the twelfth century.

• Limited Mintage of 9,840 Worldwide
• Mark a unique moment in history
• Remember where you were when England took on the world
• Unique packaging captures the pride of the nation
• Channel the spirit of the three lions
• Finished to a Brilliant Uncirculated standard - A Finer Finish Than Circulating Coins