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2 Pounds - Elizabeth II 3rd portrait, UEFA Euro 1996
| Issuer | Royal Mint |
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| Year | 1996 |
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| Currency | Pound sterling (decimalized, 1971-date) |
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| Obverse description | The third definitive effigy of Queen Elizabeth II faces right, rendered by Raphael David Maklouf, depicting a crowned and draped bust wearing the George IV State Diadem. The legend ELIZABETH·II·DEI·GRATIA·REGINA·F·D encircles the portrait, and the denomination TWO POUNDS appears below with the engraver's initials RDM. The portrait is set against a flat field with the inscription arranged in the conventional peripheral position. |
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| Obverse lettering | ELIZABETH·II·DEI·GRATIA·REGINA·F·D RDM · TWO POUNDS · (Translation: Elizabeth the Second by the Grace of God Queen Defender of the Faith) |
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UEFA Euro 1996 was awarded to England partly on the strength of its existing stadium infrastructure, ending a thirty-year absence of major tournament football from the country since the 1966 World Cup. The Royal Mint issued this piece as a direct commemorative tie-in — an early example of the Mint's growing appetite for sports-themed circulation commemoratives through the 1990s. It circulated freely alongside standard issues.
The nickel brass composition was a deliberate departure from the bimetallic format the Mint would adopt for its definitive £2 coin just two years later in 1998.