UK £2 RARE BIMETALLIC TWO POUND COIN.
2012 ISSUE COMMEMORATING THE 200TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE BIRTH OF CHARLES DICKENS - BORN 1812
INTERESTING COIN DEPICTING CHARLES DICKENS PROFILE, FORMED FROM A WORD CLOUD, OF A SERIES OF HIS BOOK TITLES, INCLUDING OLIVER TWIST, DAVID COPPERFIELD, BLEAK HOUSE, , A TALE OF TWO CITIES, GREAT EXPECTATIONS, DOMBY AND SON, LITTLE DORRIT, PICKWICK PAPERS, NICOLAS NICKLEBY, EDWIN DROOD, AND MANY MORE, IF YOU CAN PICK THEM OUT ETC,ETC. IT IS A VERY CLEVER DESIGN BY MATTHEW DENT. THE TYPOGRAPHY USES SEVERAL DIFFERENT TYPEFACES FROM ONES THAT WOULD HAVE EXISTED DURING DICKENS LIFETIME, TO ONES THAT WERE DESIGNED SINCE HIS DEATH....SYMBOLIC OF THE ENDURING POPULARITY OF HIS WORK. THE PORTRAIT IS BASED ON A BUST OF A BEARDED DICKENS, WHICH IS PART OF THE COLLECTION OF THE CHARLES DICKENS MUSEUM IN LONDON (NICE SUBTLE SYMBOLIC TOUCH)INSCRIPTION AROUND THE EDGE STATES ' SOMETHING WILL TURN UP'
ON THE FRONT IS THE QUEENS HEAD, AND AROUND THE OUTER RIM - THE INSCRIPTION: ELIZABETH II.D.G.REG.FID.DEF. 2012 AND TWO POUNDS
ON THE REVERSE THE CLOUD IS INTRIGUINGLY IN THE SHAPE OF DICKENS HEAD, BUT CONTAINING THE TITLES OF HIS WORKS. AROUND THE EDGE, CHARLES DICKENS IS SANDWICHED BY HIS DATE OF BIRTH - 1812, AND DEATH - 1870
A VERY INTERESTING COIN THAT CONCEALS, AND REVEALS SO MUCH !
LOW MINTAGE
COMPOSED OF A NICKEL BRASS OUTER RING, AND AN INNER CUPRO NICKEL CIRCLE
SOLD IN USED CIRCULATED CONDITION, BUT A GOOD NICE SHINY COIN
WILL POST WORLDWIDE