In 2019, to celebrate the Queens Beasts and the Pride of England, the Royal Mint released a Limited Issue Brilliant Uncirculated Queens Beasts Lion of England Lion £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 2019 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.

• Mark a unique moment in history
• Finished to a Brilliant Uncirculated standard - A Finer Finish Than Circulating Coins
• Channel the spirit of the three lions
• Queens Beasts Lion of England