2 Guineas - George II Older portrait

The Two Guinea piece was an awkward denomination by the 1740s — too large for routine commerce, too small to matter for major transactions — and George II's Treasury knew it. No Two Guineas had been struck since 1713, and this revival under John Sigismund Tanner's older portrait was itself short-lived, with production ceasing entirely after 1753. The denomination was never revived again.

Spink 3669 identifies only a handful of documented die pairings across the entire five-year run, and the combined mintage across all years remains extremely low by any standard of 18th-century British gold coinage.