1052
2 pounds
2005
Copper-Nickel
Nickel Brass
12
28.4
Medallic alignment ↑↑
Queen Elizabeth II (4th portrait)
Three Parliamentary maces, three episcopal crooks, and six swords in the centre
400th Anniversary of the Gunpowder Plot
The Gunpowder Plot of 1605, in earlier centuries often called the Gunpowder Treason Plot or the Jesuit Treason, was a failed assassination attempt against King James I of England and VI of Scotland by a group of provincial English Catholics led by Robert Catesby.