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This is the 2014 BU issue with a mintage of 839. The first of six sets of £5 coins issued between 2014 and 2018, commemorating the 100th anniversary of the First World War. This issue was part of the 6-coin set released in 2014, remembering the Outbreak of The First World War and was also struck in gold proof. Issue limit: 1,914 ©The Royal Mint, 2014 Possibly the weapon that most defined the change in warfare in the First World War from what went before was the advent of massed heavy artillery. With weapons featuring barrel diameters of up to 42cm in the case of the German ‘Big Bertha’, a gun capable of lobbing an 818kg (1,800lb) shell 7.8 miles, artillery could turn a battlefield into an impenetrable morass in just a few hours. At the Battle of Messines, the British artillery, consisting of approximately 2,000 field guns and 1,300 heavy guns, fired over 3.25 million shells in eight days. In September 1918 on an assault on the Hindenberg Line, they fired 943,847 rounds in just 24 hours.
75th Anniversary of VE Day
2020 · £2
