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2 Pounds - Charles III Una and the Lion
| Issuer | States of Alderney |
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| Year | 2025 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Reverse lettering | DIRIGE DEUS GRESSUS MEOS MDCCCXXXIX. W.WYON R.A. |
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| Mintage | 2025 - Proof |
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The "Una and the Lion" design has one of the stranger origin stories in British numismatics. William Wyon's original 1839 pattern piece — never intended for circulation — depicted the young Victoria as "Una" from Spenser's Faerie Queene, guiding a lion representing Britain. It was struck to showcase Wyon's engraving skill to a new monarch, not to propose an actual coin. The design sat dormant for over a century before bullion and commemorative issues began reviving it obsessively from the 1990s onward.
Alderney's use of the type under Charles III continues that tradition of issuing authority being largely incidental — the Channel Island imprimatur satisfies legal tender technicalities while the coin functions purely as a collectible.