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|
Specifications |
| Issued |
2005 |
| Diameter |
28.4mm |
| Weight |
12g |
| Composition |
Outer: nickel-brass 76%
copper, 4% nickel, 20% zinc |
| Composition |
Inner: Cupro-nickel 75%
copper, 25% nickel |
| Obverse |
Ian Rank-Broadley |
| Reverse |
Peter Forster |
| Edge |
Milled |
| Inscription |
Remember remember the fifth
of November |
| Mintage |
5,140,500 |
|
|
|
B.U pack |
 |
|
£6.95 |
| 2005 |
|
Product code |
| UKGPBP |
| Sold |
12,044 |
|
|
Design
details:
The plot to assassinate King James I at the opening of Parliament on 5
November 1605, thankfully thwarted due to the anonymous letter sent to
Lord Monteagle, is a piece of British history that shall ‘never be
forgot’. 400 years later, in 2005, The Royal Mint remembered the Fifth of
November with a splendidly-detailed two-pound coin. In the words of the
artist Peter Forster its intricate reverse design shows symbols of State,
represented by the mace, crosier and sword alluding to the survival under
threat of the British establishment. The circular arrangement in which
they are shown is also suggestive of a Catherine Wheel and the surrounding
stars are a further reference to fireworks. The dates are rendered in an
early seventeenth-century style of font.
text source and credit the Royal Mint |