2 Pounds - Elizabeth II London, Silver Proof

Issued to mark the centenary of the British Broadcasting Corporation, founded in October 1922 under a Post Office licence before receiving its Royal Charter in 1927. The BBC's relationship with the Crown was occasionally fraught — most famously during the 1926 General Strike, when the government pressured the corporation to act as a state mouthpiece, a tension that shaped its editorial independence doctrine for decades afterward.

Spink's CV1 reference indicates first in a new catalogue sequence, reflecting the ongoing reorganisation of modern commemorative British coinage classification.