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2 Pounds - Elizabeth II 4th portrait, Florence Nightingale
| Issuer | Royal Mint |
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| Year | 2010 |
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| Engraver(s) | Obverse: Ian Rank-Broadley Reverse: Gordon Summers |
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| Obverse description | Fourth definitive effigy of Queen Elizabeth II facing right, modelled by Ian Rank-Broadley, wearing the Girls of Great Britain and Ireland tiara. The truncated bust is draped, with the designer's initials IRB appearing below. The encircling legend reads the sovereign's titles in abbreviated Latin, with the date flanking the legend. The inner copper-nickel centre and outer nickel-brass ring of the bimetallic planchet are clearly delineated. |
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| Obverse lettering | ELIZABETH·II·D·G·REG·FID·DEF IRB · 2010 · (Translation: Elizabeth the Second by the Grace of God Queen Defender of the Faith) |
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Issued to mark the centenary of Florence Nightingale's death and the 150th anniversary of the publication of Notes on Nursing, this coin appeared in the same year the World Health Organization was drawing global attention to nursing shortages — an awkward coincidence the Royal Mint did not advertise. Nightingale's statistical innovations, particularly her pioneering use of polar area diagrams to persuade Parliament on hospital mortality, are rarely acknowledged in commemorative contexts, which tend to flatten her into a lamp-carrying symbol rather than the data-driven reformer she actually was.