2019 Great Britain 2 oz Silver Queen's Beasts: The Yale of Beaufort

2019 Great Britain 2 oz Silver Queen's Beasts: The Yale of Beaufort

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The sixth  release in a new 10 coin series of majestic creatures from the Yale of Beaufort.

The Yale was a mythical beast, supposedly white and covered with gold spots and able to swivel each of its horns independently. It descends to the Queen through Henry VII, who inherited it from his mother, Lady Margaret Beaufort. The shield shows a portcullis surmounted by a royal crown. The portcullis (uncrowned) was a Beaufort badge, but was used both crowned and uncrowned by Henry VII.

Coin Highlights:

Contains 2 oz of .9999 fine Silver.
Housed in protective plastic flip. Orders of 10 or more coins come in tubes. Orders of 200 coins or more are packaged in Monster Boxes.
The first coin in the Queen's Beast series to feature The Royal Mint's new guilloché obverse design!
Obverse: Displays the effigy of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, along with the face value of 5 pounds.
Reverse: Features the Yale of Beaufort.. The metal weight, purity and year are listed around the rim.
Sovereign coin backed by the British government.

At the coronation of Her Majesty The Queen, ten heraldic beasts stood guard. The Queen?s Beasts, sculpted by James Woodford RA for the coronation ceremony held in Westminster Abbey in 1953, stand six feet tall. The heraldic creatures symbolized the various strands of royal ancestry brought together in a young woman about to be crowned queen. Each proud beast, used as a heraldic badge by generations that went before her, was inspired by the King?s Beasts of Henry VIII that still line the bridge over the moat at his Hampton Court Palace.

Today, The Queen?s Beasts can be found at the Canadian Museum of History in Quebec, while Portland stone replicas, also carved by James Woodford, watch over Kew Gardens in the United Kingdom. But these mythical, ancient creatures such as the lion, griffin, falcon, bull, yale, greyhound, dragon, unicorn and horse have gone on to inspire the highly-praised new talent, Royal Mint Coin Designer Jody Clark.

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