2 Pounds - Elizabeth II Florence Nightingale, Silver Piedfort

Issued to mark the centenary of Florence Nightingale's death in 1910, this piedfort doubles the standard two-pound coin's thickness, a format the Royal Mint has used since reviving the piedfort tradition in 1982 for collector issues. Nightingale died on August 13, 1910, aged ninety, having spent her final decades largely bedridden — a prolonged decline that did nothing to slow her influence on nursing reform and hospital sanitation policy.

Piedforts from this period were struck at Llantrisant. Mintage for the silver piedfort was capped at 3,500.