In 2005 the Royal Mint celebrated the 250th Anniversary of Samuel Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language by releasing a Fifty Pence gold proof coin. This proof coin comes with both the certificate of authentication and the original Royal Mint proof box. The Royal Mint only produced 1,000 of these gold coins.
Artist Tom Philips designed the 50p gold coin reverse, cleverly referring to Samuel Johnson's definition of what Fifty Pence was. The Queen's portrait on the obverse side is the fourth portrait of Elizabeth II, as designed by Ian Rank-Broadley.
Samuel Johnson, often called Dr Johnson, was a writer who tried his hand at all manner of work including biographies, poetry, literary criticism, and eventually lexicography - the practice of creating a dictionary. He published 'A Dictionary of the English Language' in 1755. His was the primary English language dictionary until 1884, when the Oxford University Press issued the Oxford English Dictionary (OED).
At BullionByPost we dispatch our customer orders with the Royal Mail or the UPS courier service. We deliver all over the UK, as well as shipping to the Channel Islands of Jersey and Guernsey. Listed below are the delivery options at this time.
Please note that the cut-off point for deliveries to be sent out for the next day via Royal Mail is 2pm.
Orders placed after 2pm on Friday will be dispatched on the following Monday. For Saturday Upgrade or UPS details, scroll down.
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