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The coin was released on 15 June 1998 (coins minted 1997) after a review of the United Kingdom's coinage decided that a general-circulation £2 coin was needed. [1] The new bi-metallic coin design replaced a series of commemorative, uni-metallic coins which were issued between 1986 and 1996 to celebrate special occasions. Although legal tender ...
Crowns, £5 coins and (until 1996) £2 coins are non-circulating, although they are still legal tender. These denominations are only used for commemoratives. During the decimal era, crowns were converted to twenty-five pence. 50p and £2 coins made after 1996 circulate normally and can be found in change. Usually about 5 million of each of ...
The standard-issue £2 coin from 1997 to 2015 carried the edge inscription STANDING ON THE SHOULDERS OF GIANTS. The redesigned coin since 2015 has a new edge inscription QUATUOR MARIA VINDICO, Latin for "I will claim the four seas", an inscription previously found on coins bearing the image of Britannia. Other commemorative £2 coins have their ...
Bullion / collectors' coins issued in 2018 to 2021; 1 troy ounce of silver, with a value of £2, or 10 troy ounces, valued at £10. [8] Twenty pounds: £20 Introduced in 2013 as a commemorative coin. [9] Fifty pounds: £50 Introduced in 2015 as a commemorative coin. [10] One hundred pounds: £100 Introduced in 2015 as a commemorative coin. [11]
No double sovereigns were issued in 1986, 1994, 1995, 1997, 1999 or 2001, years in which the coin's place in the gold proof set was taken by a gold version of a commemorative £2 piece issued that year. In 1989, the usual designs were replaced with a commemorative evoking the design of the original English sovereign of 1489, by Bernard Sindall.
British bimetallic £2, a coin in current circulation; Gold £2 coin, an historical circulating coin and a modern commemorative or bullion coin; Falkland Islands £2 coin; Gibraltar £2 coin; Sudanese pound (LS 2 note) Saint Helena £2 coin; Syrian pound (LS 2 coin)
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