2 Pounds - Charles III Jane Austen - Sense & Sensibility, Silver Proof

The Royal Mint's long-running literary commemorative program has largely been a UK affair, which makes this Isle of Man issue worth a second look — the Bailiwick operates its own currency authority and has historically been quicker to license pop-culture and anniversary themes that London's more conservative program would decline. Sense & Sensibility was first published in 1811, over a decade after Austen completed an early draft then titled Elinor and Marianne, and it appeared — like all her novels during her lifetime — without her name on the title page.