1993 Royal Arms One Pound Circulated Coin

Collectable round 1993 UK One Pound, featuring the popular Royal Arms reverse, from an annual mintage of 114,744,500 coins.

This design was first used on 1983 One Pounds and was designed by Chief Engraver Eric Sewell. It's paired with Raphael David Maklouf's elegant third coinage portrait of Queen Elizabeth II, seen on British coins minted between 1985 and 1997.

• Edge reads 'DECUS ET TUTAMEN' - a classic inscription: 'An ornament and a safeguard'
• The Royal Mint struck these One Pound coins for circulation in a nickel-brass alloy
• These coins were intended as currency but were later withdrawn, replaced with the bimetallic £1