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About the 1 oz Tudor Beasts Platinum Coin
Tudor Beasts Platinum: The Royal Mint's Current Heraldic Series
The 1 oz Tudor Beasts Platinum Coin is part of The Royal Mint's ongoing ten-coin series (2022-2026), the direct successor to the popular Queen's Beasts programme that concluded in 2021. The Tudor Beasts draws its designs from the King's Beasts stone statues on the Moat Bridge of Hampton Court Palace, originally placed by Henry VIII after acquiring the palace from Cardinal Thomas Wolsey in the 1530s. All reverses are designed by David Lawrence, with two new beast designs released each year.
The coin is struck to 999.5 fine platinum with a face value of £100 GBP. As UK legal tender, it carries CGT exemption for British residents, one of the few platinum coins in the world that offers this benefit. For UK investors, the Tudor Beasts stands alongside the Platinum Britannia and the completed Queen's Beasts as the only CGT-exempt platinum options.
The series straddles a unique historical transition: coins from 2022 bear the Jody Clark portrait of Queen Elizabeth II, while those from 2023 onwards carry the Martin Jennings portrait of King Charles III. Some collectors seek matched pairs of both portrait variants for each beast design.
Compared to the Queen's Beasts, the Tudor Beasts adds a 1 oz silver bullion format (the Queen's Beasts standardised on 2 oz for silver) and features 999.9 silver purity, higher than the Britannia's 999. The platinum specification is identical across all Royal Mint series at 999.5 fineness. For buyers who missed the Queen's Beasts or want a currently available CGT-exempt heraldic platinum coin, the Tudor Beasts fills that role while the programme remains active.
Tudor Beasts Platinum Coin Specifications
| Attribute | Value |
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| Weight | 1 troy oz (31.21 g) |
| Purity | 999.5 (99.95% fine platinum) |
| Diameter | 32.69 mm |
| Face Value | £100 GBP |
| Edge | Milled |
| Manufacturer | The Royal Mint |
| Legal Tender | United Kingdom |
The Ten Tudor Beasts
| Beast | Year | Historical Connection |
|---|---|---|
| Seymour Panther | 2022 | Jane Seymour (Henry VIII's third wife) |
| Lion of England | 2022 | Royal arms of England |
| Yale of Beaufort | 2023 | Lady Margaret Beaufort (Henry VII's mother) |
| Bull of Clarence | 2023 | House of York |
| Seymour Unicorn | 2024 | Jane Seymour |
| Tudor Dragon | 2024 | Henry VII / Tudor dynasty Welsh origins |
| Queen's Panther | 2025 | Jane Seymour via the Queen |
| Greyhound of Richmond | 2025 | Henry VII |
| Queen's Lion | 2026 | TBC |
| (10th beast TBC) | 2026 | TBC |
Security Features
All Tudor Beasts bullion coins feature a guilloche patterned background, a geometric lattice pattern in the background field that serves as both an aesthetic element and a counterfeiting deterrent. This is the same security approach used on the Queen's Beasts from 2018. The four-feature security suite (surface animation, latent image, tincture lines, micro-text) remains exclusive to the Britannia series and is not applied to the Tudor Beasts.
Tudor Beasts Platinum Tax Treatment by Country
The Tudor Beasts' UK legal tender status gives it a specific tax advantage that most platinum coins lack. Outside the UK, it follows standard platinum tax rules.
United Kingdom
As UK legal tender, all Tudor Beasts coins (gold, silver, and platinum) are CGT-exempt for UK residents. This is a significant benefit for platinum, where the 20% VAT on purchase means that CGT exemption on disposal is the only available tax relief. The Platinum Tudor Beasts shares this exemption with the Platinum Britannia and the completed Queen's Beasts. Platinum still carries 20% VAT on purchase, regardless of the coin.
United States
The Tudor Beasts Platinum is not IRA-eligible. It is not on the IRS approved list for precious metals retirement accounts. Capital gains are taxed at the collectibles rate of up to 28%. Most states exempt investment-grade bullion from sales tax.
European Union
Platinum is subject to standard VAT across the EU (17-27%). No investment platinum exemption exists equivalent to the EU Investment Gold Directive. The margin scheme may apply to pre-owned Tudor Beasts in some countries.
Canada
Platinum at 99.5% purity or above is GST/HST-exempt. The Tudor Beasts qualifies. Capital gains are taxed at a 50% inclusion rate.
Australia and New Zealand
Both countries exempt platinum at 99% purity or above from GST. The Tudor Beasts qualifies. Australia applies CGT with a 50% discount for holdings over 12 months. New Zealand has no CGT.
Singapore and Hong Kong
Singapore exempts qualifying platinum from 9% GST. Hong Kong has no sales tax, duties, or CGT. Both are fully favourable for platinum purchases.
Hampton Court's Beasts on Modern Platinum
Hampton Court Palace, located on the Thames west of London, was built by Cardinal Thomas Wolsey beginning in 1514 and was one of the grandest palaces in Tudor England. When Wolsey fell from favour in 1529, he gave the palace to Henry VIII, who expanded it substantially. Henry added the Moat Bridge (also called the Great Gatehouse Bridge), placing ten heraldic beast statues along its balustrade to display the dynastic lineage that legitimised Tudor rule.
The original 16th-century statues deteriorated over the centuries. The current statues on the Moat Bridge are 20th-century replicas carved by Joseph Cribb in the 1930s, commissioned as part of the palace's restoration programme. These modern replicas are the direct source material for The Royal Mint's coin designs.
David Lawrence, an illustrator and sculptor with more than 30 years of experience, designed all ten Tudor Beasts reverses. Each depicts a heraldic beast in a dynamic pose, holding a shield bearing Tudor-era heraldic arms. The designs are more detailed and animated than the Queen's Beasts' cleaner heraldic style, reflecting the difference between coronation formality and Tudor dynamism.
The series launched in 2022 with the Seymour Panther and Lion of England, and it runs through 2026 with two designs per year. The obverse transitioned from Elizabeth II (Jody Clark portrait) to Charles III (Martin Jennings portrait) in 2023, creating a unique numismatic record of the transition between monarchs within a single bullion series. If the Queen's Beasts precedent holds, a Completer Coin featuring all ten beasts is likely after the final 2026 releases.
The Tudor Beasts runs concurrently with the Britannia, and The Royal Mint positions them differently: the Britannia serves core bullion demand with maximum liquidity, while the Tudor Beasts targets the collector-investor crossover market, where buyers want both metal value and collectible appeal.
Tudor Beasts vs Queen's Beasts, Britannia, and Philharmonic
The Tudor Beasts competes most directly with other Royal Mint platinum products and the continental European alternative.
| Feature | Tudor Beasts | Queen's Beasts | Britannia | Philharmonic |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Years | 2022-2026 | 2016-2021 | 2018-present | 2016-present |
| Purity | 999.5 | 999.5 | 999.5 | 999.5 |
| Designer | David Lawrence | Jody Clark | Various | Thomas Pesendorfer |
| UK CGT Exempt | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| Security | Guilloche | Guilloche | Standard | Standard |
| Status | Ongoing | Completed | Ongoing | Ongoing |
| US IRA Eligible | No | No | Yes | Yes |
The Tudor Beasts and Queen's Beasts share the same DNA: Royal Mint heraldic series with ten designs, guilloche security, CGT exemption, and a five-year production window. The key difference is availability. The Queen's Beasts is complete and its supply is fixed, which may support premium appreciation as the secondary market tightens. The Tudor Beasts is currently available at bullion premiums, offering the same tax treatment without the collector premium of a concluded series.
The Britannia is the simpler CGT-exempt option for UK investors who want platinum without collecting a specific series. It has annual production, wider dealer availability, and slightly larger market recognition internationally. The Tudor Beasts offers the added dimension of a collectible series format for buyers who enjoy assembling a complete set.
The Philharmonic competes on premium rather than tax. It typically trades at lower premiums than any Royal Mint platinum coin and has strong distribution in Europe. For non-UK buyers, the Philharmonic's competitive pricing and cultural design make it a practical choice. For UK residents, the Tudor Beasts' CGT exemption more than offsets any premium difference on gains above the £3,000 annual allowance.
1 oz Tudor Beasts Platinum Coin: frequently asked questions
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The cheapest 1 oz Tudor Beasts platinum coin on this page is $1,859.80, currently stocked by Monument Metals at around 10.7% over the $1,680.00 platinum spot price. The coin is struck in .9995 fine platinum by The Royal Mint and carries a face value of GBP 100, giving it UK legal tender status.
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The Royal Tudor Beasts is a ten-coin series released over five years (2022 to 2026), with two new designs each year. The coins are: Seymour Panther and Lion of England (2022), Yale of Beaufort and Bull of Clarence (2023), Seymour Unicorn and Tudor Dragon (2024), Queen's Panther and Greyhound of Richmond (2025), and two further designs in 2026. All reverses were designed by David Lawrence.
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No completer coin has been confirmed for the Tudor Beasts series. The Royal Mint produced a completer coin for the preceding Queen's Beasts series after its tenth design, so collectors following the same precedent expect a similar piece once the tenth Tudor Beast is released in 2026. The Royal Mint has not announced details publicly.
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Platinum bullion has a thinner dealer market than gold or silver, so the spread between buying and selling prices can be wider and fewer dealers actively quote buy-back prices. The Tudor Beasts platinum coin is a collector-series product from The Royal Mint, which adds appeal for numismatic buyers but reduces the pool of straightforward bullion dealers compared to mainstream gold or silver coins. Liquidity is lower overall.