1 Pound - Elizabeth II Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Silver Proof

Issued to mark the 150th anniversary of Lewis Carroll's original publication — though Carroll himself was a mathematics lecturer at Oxford who wrote the story for Alice Liddell, daughter of the college dean, in 1862, nine years before the commemorative date this coin technically observes. The Royal Mint has produced numerous collector series around British literary figures, but the Wonderland release attracted unusual crossover interest from Carroll collectors and book antiquarians outside the usual numismatic market.