Royal Mint to give special £5 coin to 95 who turn 95 in 2021 to mark Queen’s birthday
NINETY-FIVE people who turn 95 this year will receive a commemorative coin to mark the Queen’s birthday, the Royal Mint has announced.
The Mint is inviting nominations for recipients of an uncirculated £5 coin, featuring a design by heraldic artist Timothy Noad, to celebrate the monarch’s 95th birthday next month. Applications should be submitted to the Royal Mint’s website with the name and contact details of the nominee. The winners will be drawn at random, and must provide evidence of their 1926 birth.
The Queen, who will reach the age of 95 on April 21, will have her birthday marked by the Mint, which has struck a range of coins, featuring two new designs, for the occasion. A new £5 coin, typically reserved for significant royal events, was announced by the Royal Mint in January. Designs of the coin showed it including the words “my heart and my devotion”, which was said by the monarch in her 1957 Christmas broadcast, the first to be televised. Clare Maclennan, divisional director of the consumer division at the Royal Mint, said: “Each coin is a miniature work of art and has been designed as a treasured keepsake or gift, and we are delighted to be able to gift 95 of them to 95 people celebrating their own landmark birthdays this year.”
The draw closes on April 19 at 11am. The 2021 British coin collection will also mark the 250th anniversary of the birth of novelist Sir Walter Scott, and the 75th anniversary of the death of author HG Wells.
Two new 50p coins will mark the 50th anniversary of decimalisation, and the 75th anniversary of the death of the inventor John Logie Baird, famous for his early prototypes of the television.