10 oz Silver Queen's Beasts (Random Year, Abrasions)

Description

Coin Highlights: Contains 10 oz of .9999 fine silver. Coins will exhibit light to heavy contact marks, milk spots, scratches, etc. Obverse: Displays the effigy of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, along with the face value of 10 pounds. Reverse: Features a random majestic beast, metal weight, purity and year. Sovereign coin backed by the British government. The Queen's Beasts silver coin is the first 10 oz silver bullion produced by The Royal Mint. Add this Queen's Beast to your cart today! 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.