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2 Pounds - Elizabeth II Frankenstein, Silver Piedfort
| Issuer | Royal Mint |
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| Year | 2018 |
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| Value | 2 Pounds |
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| Reverse description | Central design featuring the word FRANKENSTEIN rendered in bold, stylised lettering evoking the visual language of Gothic horror, with decorative electric spark motifs referencing the galvanic animation of the monster as described in Mary Shelley's novel. The design was engraved by Thomas T. Docherty and commemorates the bicentenary of the novel's publication. Surrounding inscriptions reference the subtitle of the work and the dates of publication and issue. The engraver's initials TD appear within the design. |
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| Mintage | 2018 - Proof - 1,379 |
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Issued to mark the bicentennial of Mary Shelley's novel, published anonymously in 1818 when Shelley was just twenty years old. The piedfort format — double the thickness of a standard strike — has been a Royal Mint specialty since its modern revival in 1982, originally reintroduced for collector sets accompanying circulating commemoratives.
Shelley began the story as part of a ghost-writing competition at the Villa Diodati in 1816, the same Geneva summer that produced Polidori's *The Vampyre*.