GREAT_BRITAIN 

KM 905

SHORT COINS

ENCYCLOPAEDIA

                

Face Value Diameter mm Weight g Thickness mm Edge Composition Rotation
1 shilling 24.0 5.7   Reeded Copper-Nickel Medal
Obverse Reverse

 Effigy of Queen Elizabeth II right (first portrait) in the center, inscription along the rim: DEI GRATIA REGINA (By the Grace of God Queen) in Latin.

Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary, born 21 April 1926) is Queen of the United Kingdom from 6 February 1952.

Inscriptions along the rim: FIDEI DEFENSOR (Defender of the Faith) in Latin, word denomination, crowned Scottish shield with a rampant lion facing left divides the year of minting.