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2 Pounds - Elizabeth II Alice Through the Looking Glass, Silver Proof
| Issuer | Royal Mint |
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| Year | 2021 |
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| Technique | Milled, Colored |
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| Reverse description | The reverse features a coloured scene inspired by John Tenniel's original illustrations for Lewis Carroll's 'Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There' (1871), engraved by Ffion Gwillim. To the left, Alice is depicted in her characteristic blue dress, white apron, and red-and-white striped stockings, facing right with her arm extended toward Tweedledee and Tweedledum, the identical rotund twin characters standing side by side in red jackets and yellow trousers, their names inscribed on their collars. The background field is rendered in fine engraved line work depicting a woodland scene with bare trees and foliage. The inscription THROUGH the LOOKING-GLASS appears in bold stylised lettering across the lower portion of the field. |
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| Reverse lettering | THROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS |
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Issued as part of the Royal Mint's ongoing Lewis Carroll commemorative program, this coin marks the 150th anniversary of the 1871 publication of *Through the Looking-Glass* — Carroll's sequel to *Alice's Adventures in Wonderland*, written while he was still a mathematics lecturer at Christ Church, Oxford. The book's chess-game structure and mirror-logic were deliberate inversions of the original, composed largely during Carroll's correspondence with Alice Liddell's family in the years following a still-debated estrangement.
Struck to .999 fineness rather than the more common .925 used in standard British proof silver issues.