2 Pounds - Elizabeth II 5th portrait, Dame Vera Lynn

Issued in the year following Vera Lynn's death in 2020, this commemorative was part of a broader Royal Mint push to mark figures whose cultural weight had been amplified by the pandemic — Lynn's wartime recordings had returned to heavy radio rotation during the lockdowns, briefly charting again nearly eight decades after their original release. She remains the only artist to have topped the UK charts in both the 1940s and the 21st century.