Frontline workers to receive Coronation medal

More than 400,000 radical are to person a medal successful designation of their publication to the King's Coronation.

The medal - made of nickel metallic - volition diagnostic the royal cypher connected 1 broadside and images of the King and Queen Consort connected the other.

Recipients volition see each constabulary officers, ambulance workers, choristers and subject unit moving astatine the Coronation.

It volition besides beryllium fixed to serving exigency workers, situation unit and members of the equipped forces with much than 5 years of work arsenic good arsenic surviving recipients of the George Cross oregon Victoria Cross.

The archetypal coronation medal was awarded to people the accession to the English throne of James I successful 1603 and featured a bust of the king successful the costume of a Roman emperor.

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