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2 Pounds - Elizabeth II 4th portrait, Act of Union
| Issuer | The Royal Mint |
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| Year | 2007 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Milled with incuse lettering |
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Issued to mark the tercentenary of the Acts of Union 1707, which united the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland under a single Parliament of Great Britain. The legislation passed only after years of failed attempts — an earlier union under Cromwell had been dissolved at the Restoration, and Scottish parliamentary resistance in the early 1700s was fierce enough that England briefly threatened economic sanctions to push the vote through.
Queen Anne's reign provided the political moment; she died without surviving heirs seven years later, making the union's Protestant succession framework almost immediately consequential.