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2 Pounds - Charles III Billiards, Silver Proof
| Issuer | Jersey |
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| Year | 2023 |
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| Weight | 12 g |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The silver inner disc depicts a close-up scene of a billiards game in progress, showing a player's hand firmly gripping a cue and directing it toward balls on a baize-covered table, with a scoreboard visible in the upper right background. The composition captures the traditional atmosphere of the pub game in a dynamic and detailed engraving. The gold-plated outer ring bears the legend TRADITIONAL PUB GAMES - BILLIARDS arcing around the upper periphery and TWO POUNDS along the lower periphery. This reverse is part of a series celebrating traditional British pub games. |
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Jersey's 2023 commemorative program has leaned heavily into British cultural history, and this piece targets snooker and billiards — a sport with deep roots in the British officers' mess tradition of colonial India before it migrated into working-class clubs across the UK through the late Victorian period. The bimetallic appearance is achieved not through a true insert but through selective gold plating of the outer ring after striking, a finishing technique increasingly common among Royal Mint-adjacent producers seeking visual differentiation without the tooling cost of genuine bimetallic dies.