ne penny (1p; £0.01), 1971–present
- Two pence (2p; £0.02), 1971–present
- Five pence (5p; £0.05), 1968–1990 (reduced to present size); 1990–present
- Ten pence (10p; £0.10), 1968–1992 (reduced to present size); 1992–present
- Twenty pence (20p; £0.20), 1982–present
- Twenty-five pence or crown (25p; £0.25), 1972–1981 (special issues, not in common circulation)
- Fifty pence (50p; £0.50), 1969–1997 (reduced to present size); 1997–present
- One pound (£1.00), 1983–present
- Two pounds (£2.00), 1986–1997 (special issues); 1997–present (general issue - bimetallic)
- Five pounds or crown (£5.00), 1990–present (special issues, not in common circulation though still legal tender)
- Twenty pounds (£20.00), 2013–present (special issues, not in common circulation though still legal tender)
- One Hundred pounds (£100.00), 2015–present (special issues, not in common circulation though still legal tender)
|One penny||Queen Elizabeth II||Segment of the Coat of Arms of the United Kingdom||20.3 mm||1.52 mm (bronze)
1.65 mm (copper-plated steel)
|3.56 g||Bronze (1971 – Sept 1992)
Copper-plated steel (Sept 1992 – present)
|Two pence||Queen Elizabeth II||Segment of the Coat of Arms of the United Kingdom||25.9 mm||1.85 mm (bronze)
2.03 mm (copper-plated steel)
|7.12 g||Bronze (97% copper, 2.5% zinc, 0.5% tin) – until September 1992
Copper-plated steel – since September 1992, except in 1998 when the 2p was made in both alloys
|Five pence*||Queen Elizabeth II||Segment of the Coat of Arms of the United Kingdom||18 mm||1.7 mm (cupro-nickel)
1.89 mm (nickel-plated steel)
|3.25 g||Cupronickel (75:25) (Nickel-plated steel from Jan 2012)||Milled||1990|
|Ten pence*||Queen Elizabeth II||Segment of the Coat of Arms of the United Kingdom||24.5 mm||1.85 mm (cupro-nickel)
2.05 mm (nickel-plated steel)
|6.5 g||Cupronickel (75:25) (Nickel-plated steel from Jan 2012)||Milled||1992|
|Twenty pence||Queen Elizabeth II||Segment of the Coat of Arms of the United Kingdom||21.4 mm||1.7 mm||5 g||Cupronickel (84:16)||Smooth, Reuleaux heptagon||1982|
|Twenty-five pence||Queen Elizabeth II||No standard reverse design||38.61 mm||2.89 mm||28.28 g||Cupronickel||Milled, with variable inscription||1972 (commemorative, not in general circulation)|
|Fifty pence*||Queen Elizabeth II||Segment of the Coat of Arms of the United Kingdom||27.3 mm||1.78 mm||8 g||Cupronickel (75:25)||Smooth, Reuleaux heptagon||1997|
|One pound||Queen Elizabeth II||Coat of Arms of the United Kingdom||22.5 mm||3.15 mm||9.5 g||Nickel-brass||Milled with variable inscription and/or decoration||1983|
|Two pounds†||Queen Elizabeth II||Design by Bruce Rushin||28.4 mm||2.5 mm||12 g||Inner: Cupronickel
|Milled with variable inscription and/or decoration||1997 (issued 1998)|
|Five pounds||Queen Elizabeth II||No standard reverse design||38.61 mm||2.89 mm||28.28 g||Cupronickel||Milled, with variable inscription||1990 (commemorative, not in general circulation)|
|Twenty pounds||Queen Elizabeth II||No standard reverse design||Silver||Milled||2013 (commemorative, not in general circulation)|
|One Hundred Pounds||Queen Elizabeth II||Tower of Westminster 'Big Ben'||Silver||Milled||2015 (commemorative, not in general circulation)|
* The specifications and dates of introduction of the 5p, 10p and 50p coins refer to the current versions. These coins were originally issued in larger sizes in 1968 and 1969 respectively.
†The specification and date of introduction of the £2 coin refers to the current version. This coin was originally issued in a smaller size in a single metal in 1986 for special issues only.
With their high copper content (97%), the intrinsic value of pre-1992 1p and 2p coins increased with the surge in metal prices of the mid-2000s, until by 2006 the coins, would, if melted down, have been worth about 50% more than their face value. (To do this, however, would be illegal, and they would have had to be melted in huge quantities to achieve significant gain.) In subsequent years the price of copper fell considerably from these peaks.
All modern British coins feature a profile of the current monarch's head o