2011 Cardiff One Pound Circulated Capital Cities Coin
The second rarest UK [One Pound](file:///buy-coins/one-pound/) - the 2011 Cardiff Capital Cities £1 from a mintage of just 1,615,000 coins issued by [The Royal Mint](file:///buy-coins/the-royal-mint/). The four coins in the Capital Cities collection (released 2010-2011) were designed by Stuart Devlin. The 2011 Cardiff coin was inspired by the coat of arms for Wales' capital city, which shows the Red Dragon of Wales holding a banner and a flowering leek. - The obverse shows [Ian Rank-Broadley](file:///blog/ian-rank-broadley/)'s fourth coinage portrait of [Queen Elizabeth II](file:///buy-coins/elizabeth-ii/) - The edge reads 'Y DDRAIG GOCH DDYRY CYCHWYN', translating from Welsh to 'The red dragon will give the lead' - All old round Pounds were removed from [circulation](file:///buy-coins/circulated/) in 2017, including these low-mintage Cardiff £1 coins