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Royal Mint Launches First UK Coin Celebrating Princess Anne’s 75th Birthday

The £5 ‘Anne-iversary’ piece is available online from today in four presentations priced from £17.50 to £4,110, featuring a portrait design approved by Princess Anne with final sign-off from King Charles III.

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Overview

  • This marks the first time a Princess Royal has been honored on an official UK coin.
  • The commemorative £5 ‘Anne-iversary’ coin is offered in brilliant uncirculated, silver proof, silver proof piedfort and gold proof editions.
  • Prices range from £17.50 for the uncirculated issue to £4,110 for the premium gold proof version.
  • Designer Thomas T Docherty based Anne’s portrait on a John Swannell photograph and included her Aquamarine Pineflower Tiara, coat of arms and inscription ‘The Princess Royal – Celebrating 75 Years – Duty and Devotion’.
  • The coin honours Princess Anne’s decades of public, charitable and military service, including almost 400 engagements in 2024 alone.