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2 Pounds - Elizabeth II 5th portrait, Sir Walter Scott
| Issuer | Royal Mint |
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| Year | 2021 |
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| Engraver(s) | Obverse: Jody Clark Reverse: Stephen Raw |
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| Reverse description | The copper-nickel inner disc features a stylised profile bust of Sir Walter Scott facing left, rendered in low relief at the lower left of the field, overlapping the large calligraphic inscription 'Sir Walter Scott' which dominates the centre in an expressive, mixed-case typographic design by Stephen Raw. Below the name, the descriptors NOVELIST / HISTORIAN / POET appear in three stacked lines of upright serif capitals. The date 2021 is placed at the base of the inner disc, while the nickel-brass outer ring carries the commemorative legend 250TH ANNIVERSARY OF HIS BIRTH around the upper arc, with the designer's initials SR at the lower left of the ring. |
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| Mint | Royal Mint, Llantrisant |
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Scott's inclusion in this series marks the first time a Scottish literary figure has appeared on a UK circulating £2 coin. The choice is historically pointed: Scott was instrumental in organizing George IV's 1822 visit to Edinburgh — the first by a reigning British monarch to Scotland in nearly two centuries — and did more than almost anyone to rehabilitate Highland culture after the post-Jacobite suppression.
He also essentially invented the modern historical novel, with Waverley published anonymously in 1814.