Overview
- Sales opened on 18 November via The Royal Mint, with prices starting at £18.50 for an uncirculated £5 coin and a two‑ounce gold proof listed at £9,350.
- The design shows Mercury mid‑performance with his signature and a musical staff around the rim symbolizing his four‑octave range.
- Select versions use color to depict his yellow jacket, and a studded‑bracelet border nods to his Live Aid stage look.
- Kashmira Bulsara, Mercury’s sister, struck the first coin at the Mint’s facility in Wales last week.
- The release joins the Mint’s Legends of Music series and coincides with 40 years since Queen’s Live Aid set and Mercury’s solo album Mr. Bad Guy, with a special gold edition pledged for charity auction by the Mercury Phoenix Trust.