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Coin 2 pounds 2005

2 pounds 2005
KM №

1052

Value

2 pounds

Year

2005

Material

Copper-Nickel

Rim material

Nickel Brass

Weight, g.

12

Diameter, mm

28.4

Orientation

Medallic alignment ↑↑

Obverse

Queen Elizabeth II (4th portrait)

Reverse

Three Parliamentary maces, three episcopal crooks, and six swords in the centre

Commemorative issue

400th Anniversary of the Gunpowder Plot

Comments

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.