US EditionNew Coin Honors Freddie Mercury and His 4-Octave Range
The Royal Mint issued a limited Freddie Mercury coin collection featuring gold and silver proofs, with a one-off gold coin auctioned for charity supporting the Mercury Phoenix Trust.
- On Tuesday, Britain's Royal Mint launched commemorative £5 'crowns' marking 40 years since Freddie Mercury's Live Aid performance, with coins on sale on the Royal Mint website.
- The release was approved by Mercury Songs Limited, and Kashmira Bulsara personally struck the first coin last week, timed to the 40th anniversary of Mr Bad Guy and fan demand.
- Designs show Mercury mid-performance with his signature, a musical stave runs around the edge representing his four-octave vocal range, and the release includes brilliant uncirculated, colour 5, silver proof, and gold proof editions priced from 18.50 pounds to 9,350 pounds.
- A one-off gold proof will be auctioned to benefit the Mercury Phoenix Trust , while premium editions are expected to attract heavy bidding from collectors and fans.
- Freddie Mercury's legacy is immortalised in statues, murals, stamps and an asteroid, and this coin adds colour-printed versions recreating his bright yellow jacket and edge musical stave with Live Aid outfit elements.
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The Royal Mint of Britain celebrates Freddie Mercury with a new coin design.
The Royal Mint honors Queen’s Freddie Mercury with UK coin
Freddie Mercury of British rock group Queen performs at the Live Aid concert at Wembley Stadium in London, 13th July 1985. The concert raised funds for famine relief in Ethiopia. (Photo by Jacques Langevin/Sygma/Sygma via Getty Images) The late Queen frontman Freddie Mercury is the latest rock star to be honored by The Royal Mint with a U.K. coin. The coin features an etching of Mercury midperformance, and the studs on the edge mimic the arm ban…
Freddie Mercuriy was held during a British Royal Currency issue, about which the sister of the Queen's griefist solicity said she would have been "greatly significant" for him.
Freddie Mercury, the legendary lead singer of the British rock band Queen who died in 1991, has been given his own coin. The Royal Mint announced today that it has paid tribute to one of the greatest frontmen of all time by issuing a coin, which his sister said "would mean everything in the world" to him, reports the German news agency dpa.
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