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2 Pounds - Elizabeth II 4th portrait, 1 oz Fine Silver
| Issuer | Royal Mint |
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| Year | 2013 |
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| Currency | Pound sterling (decimalized, 1971-date) |
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| Obverse lettering | ELIZABETH II D G REG FID DEF 2 POUNDS IRB (Translation: Elizabeth the Second by the Grace of God Queen Defender of the Faith) |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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The 2013 Royal Mint Lunar series continued a program launched in 1999 to parallel the Chinese Lunar calendar cycle — though the British version ran a full twelve-year cycle aimed squarely at the bullion collector market rather than domestic circulation. This piece corresponds to the Year of the Snake, the sixth animal in the cycle.
Ian Rank-Broadley's fourth portrait of Elizabeth II, introduced in 1998, was by this point fifteen years into service on British coinage — the longest run of any of his predecessors' effigies in the modern decimal series.