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2 Pounds - Elizabeth II Marconi Telegraph, Silver Proof
| Issuer | Royal Mint |
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| Year | 2001 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse description | Effigy of Queen Elizabeth II facing right, the fourth definitive portrait as modelled by Ian Rank-Broadley, depicting the Queen wearing the Girls of Great Britain and Ireland tiara. The truncation of the bust bears the engraver's initials IRB. The peripheral legend reads ELIZABETH·II·DEI·GRA·REG·FID·DEF, with the initials IRB appearing at the lower right of the portrait. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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The 2001 Marconi two-pound commemorates the centenary of his first transatlantic wireless transmission, sent from Poldhu in Cornwall to Signal Hill, Newfoundland in December 1901. The signal — three dots for the letter S in Morse code — crossed 2,100 miles, a distance the scientific establishment had largely declared impossible given the assumed straight-line propagation of radio waves.
Struck in sterling silver as a proof issue alongside the base-metal circulation version, mintage was tightly controlled through Royal Mint subscription.