For 2017 for the second time ever, the Royal Mint released a special Limited Issue British Lunar Rooster £500 Five Hundred Pound Silver Proof Coin struck in solid fine .999 Silver weighing one Kilo of fine pure Silver.
The reverse designed by Wuon-Gean Ho depicts a Marsh Daisy Rooster with ten flowers in the foreground which are Marsh Daisies or Sea Thrift while the obverse features the Fifth Portrait of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II by Jody Clark. These legal tender coins have been struck to proof quality using specially prepared dies and highly polished blanks.
Limited Mintage of 68 Coins Worldwide
Finished to Royal Mint's Proof Quality
Struck in Solid Fine .999 Silver Weighing One Kilo of Pure Silver
