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2 Pounds - Charles III Billiards
| Issuer | Jersey |
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| Year | 2023 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The inner copper-nickel disc depicts a close-up scene of a billiards game in progress, showing a player's hand gripping a cue and striking billiard balls on a table, with a scoring board visible in the upper right corner of the field. The composition is dynamic and detailed, evoking the atmosphere of a traditional British pub setting. The outer nickel-brass ring carries the legend TRADITIONAL PUB GAMES - BILLIARDS arching around the upper portion, with TWO POUNDS inscribed along the lower arc, all rendered in raised capital lettering. |
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Jersey has issued a long-running series of £2 coins celebrating traditional pub games, of which billiards is among the later entries. The game itself has deep roots in British leisure culture, codified under formal rules by the Billiards Association as early as 1885, though played in English aristocratic households since at least the sixteenth century.
KM#460 is a collector-targeted issue rather than a circulation piece — Jersey's £2 bimetallic coins rarely see pocket use on the island.